Example sentences of "[verb] [be] good [subord] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company says system trails showed that 95 per cent of data messages were successfully transmitted which it reckons is better than the other means of mobile communication . |
| 2 | ‘ The devil you know is better than the devil you do n't ! . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ So you thought I would sell to another vet and that might make things worse for you on the principle that the devil you know is better than the devil you do n't know . ’ |
| 4 | I think moving 's better than a week of I V P . |
| 5 | ‘ I wonder if it would n't have been better if the Almighty had created us all as — well — as sort of plants . |
| 6 | Last night the Foreign Office said : ‘ We can see now it would have been better if the advice had not been given . ’ |
| 7 | It might have been better if the barrister had not said what he did . |
| 8 | If that means that all students are exempt , it would have been better if the Department of the Environment press releases had stated that expressly . |
| 9 | It would have been better if the programmer 's skill was recognized making him the author or joint author of " computer-generated " works . |
| 10 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told fellow ministers : ‘ A treaty which is somewhat delayed is better than no treaty at all . ’ |
| 11 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |
| 12 | I was told that the new drug I was given was better than the one I had been previously taking and I was not warned about any side effects or told not to get pregnant . |