Example sentences of "[be] good [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you 're better than a master you still have to wait . |
| 2 | So , for example , a letter and a phone call are good but a letter , a phone call and a visit even better . |
| 3 | What could be better than a captive ( and captured ) audience ! |
| 4 | After all , what could be better than a get-together with local musicians , listening to your favourite gear played how it should be played , and the all-important bottle of Carlsberg ! |
| 5 | And what could be better than a guitar which is guaranteed to be one of a limited number produced this year ? |
| 6 | By definition , a scheme of that size must be better than a scheme that is based on an individual privatised subsidiary or on one privatised company on its own . |
| 7 | He had been so sure before — and anything would be better than a decision that he might later come to regret . |
| 8 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
| 9 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |
| 10 | There is a famous passage in which he invites us to acknowledge that it would be better that a world of which no one would ever be conscious should contain beautiful objects than that it should contain ugly objects . |
| 11 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 12 | Front legroom is good and a tilt column means most people will get comfortable behind the wheel . |
| 13 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
| 14 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 15 | I think moving 's better than a week of I V P . |
| 16 | It 's better than a letter to hear her voice . ’ |
| 17 | A grand view of Horse Guards Parade — oh well it 's better than a view of John and Norma Major . |
| 18 | Incidentally , it 's better than a railway hut , and perfect for a party . ’ |
| 19 | This is better than a night at the Follies . |
| 20 | What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ? |
| 21 | A record is better than a cassette . |
| 22 | It has been a long and winding road for the much-travelled Quinn to achieve fully-fledged Premier League status , even though his career record is better than a goal every two games . |
| 23 | Failing that , a large room with a high ceiling is better than a cupboard . |
| 24 | ‘ This is better than a ceilidh . ’ |
| 25 | A research programme is better than a rival if it is more progressive , the progressive nature of a programme depending on its degree of coherence and the extent to which it has led to successful novel predictions , as discussed in Chapter 7 . |
| 26 | Kuhn mentions a number of criteria that can be used in assessing whether one theory is better than a rival . |
| 27 | We have considered various analyses of the kind of criteria that enable individuals or groups to judge whether one theory is better than a rival , or whether or not a particular body of knowledge is scientific . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry to inflict this on you , Miss Glynn , but I want to look at the contents of the bureau amongst other things and it is better that a member of the family should be present . |
| 29 | But it had been only to say some things about her son which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ( 8 ) . |
| 30 | A similar processing difficulty is caused by relative and comparative clauses in which the introductory word ( who , which , than , etc ) has an embedded syntactic function ; for example in ( 8 ) : " some things about her son [ which it was better that a boy of eleven should n't catch ] " . |