Example sentences of "[noun] was good [conj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fragile , breakable , disposable population , with no more than a toe-hold on life when trade was good and employment more plentiful ; flicked off life 's surface , almost without being noticed , when it was not . |
| 2 | Take something as fundamental as the NHS and Community Care Act — we could have tested whether general practitioner fundholding was better than health care purchasing by districts . |
| 3 | Common sense told her to beat it while the going was good but loyalty held her , undecided . |
| 4 | So far , there had been no outbreak in the district , but , acting on the principle that prevention was better than cure , many clients brought in their dogs to be vaccinated . |
| 5 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 6 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |