Example sentences of "[be] good [subord] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or maybe twenty per cent , ten per cent think they 're better than the teacher thinks they are , ten per cent think that |
| 2 | All the vegetable fats are better than the animal |
| 3 | Please do n't take offence : the socialists are better than the rest all the same . |
| 4 | These are better than the poison-taking and tomb scenes . |
| 5 | Of course they are better than the chip , chip shop are n't they ? |
| 6 | Mud houses , they say , are better than the devastation at home … now with winter around the corner they 're digging deeper for warmth … |
| 7 | It would have been better if the programmer 's skill was recognized making him the author or joint author of " computer-generated " works . |
| 8 | It might have been better if the barrister had not said what he did . |
| 9 | Further to the first point of order , is it an order for the press to hear about the proposed rise in prescription charges before this house and would n't it have not been better if the Secretary of State to come and made a statement and we could have questioned her about it . |
| 10 | Last night the Foreign Office said : ‘ We can see now it would have been better if the advice had not been given . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | However , environments are usually so variable that even if the conditions are good where the animal is now , they probably will not be in a month 's time ; it may then be better to be a hundred miles south . |
| 13 | But I think you 're right on temporary annuities , they are good if the rate 's good . |
| 14 | Mind you you might be better than the Chancellor at that , but er |
| 15 | That will be better than the factory . ’ |
| 16 | I have to say that in no way will this option be better than the colour changer , because for Norwegian jacquard , you will still have to make a semi-automatic colour change with the jacquard claw every two rows and this is slower . |
| 17 | But only at the moment when they have proven themselves to be better than the incumbent . |
| 18 | A preference consists of anything done or suffered to be done by the vendor which has the effect of putting one of its creditors , or any surety or guarantor , into a position which , in the event of the vendor going into insolvent liquidiation , would be better than the position which such person would have been in if that thing had not been done . |
| 19 | I 'd rather go in the shop and see it cos sometimes , especially if it 's got a pattern on turn out to be better than the catalogue cos when it comes , it do n't look the same , and then the same colour do you ? |
| 20 | The Temptation to defect must be better than the Reward for mutual cooperation , which must be better than the Punishment for mutual defection , which must be better than the Sucker 's payoff . |
| 21 | The Temptation to defect must be better than the Reward for mutual cooperation , which must be better than the Punishment for mutual defection , which must be better than the Sucker 's payoff . |
| 22 | The Temptation to defect must be better than the Reward for mutual cooperation , which must be better than the Punishment for mutual defection , which must be better than the Sucker 's payoff . |
| 23 | And if the management of secondary school science departments includes the management of review and of staff development then the effect of a whole-team approach to TVEI and the sharing of ideas , expertness and good practice will be better than the effect of teachers accepting TVEI principles on an individual basis . |
| 24 | Even that would be better than the policy Vacuum there has been since Black Wednesday . |
| 25 | It would be better if the Government made concessions in other areas . |
| 26 | It would be better if the Sheikh went away quietly by himself . |
| 27 | It may be better if the school can take some control of the agenda . |
| 28 | But the court 's discretion under this rule only arises if the applicant has sought a declaration , an injunction or damages ; and even if one of these remedies has been claimed the court may , in cases raising complex factual issues , refuse to exercise the discretion in the applicant 's favour on the basis that it would be better if the case were started afresh by writ . |
| 29 | Perhaps it would be better if the sport of boundary disputing was taken out of the hands of lawyers who are , by nature , adversarial . |
| 30 | It would be better if the method statement read ‘ Mr and Mrs Smith should make pleasant sexual contact at night after any day without argument ’ . |