Example sentences of "[be] good [subord] the [noun] " 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 | Society tells them they 're rubbish , because they ca n't find jobs , but it also tells them that they are better than the blacks . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's our newest arrival ’ said the Foreman with a laugh ; adding thoughtlessly , ‘ and I 'll bet her conditions are better than the ones you had to put up with in the war . |
| 4 | Cos these are better than the ones |
| 5 | As you walk through the industrial towns you lose yourself in labyrinths of little brick houses blackened by smoke , festering in planless chaos round miry alleys and little cindered yards where there are stinking dustbins and lines of grimy washing and half-ruinous w.c.s. … at their very worst the Corporation houses are better than the slums they replace . |
| 6 | The only potential for sorrow in the poem is the age of Asophus , Florimelia 's father , who nonetheless sleeps easily at night since his virtue and simplicity are better than the vanities of wealth . |
| 7 | All the vegetable fats are better than the animal |
| 8 | Please do n't take offence : the socialists are better than the rest all the same . |
| 9 | There is something very sweet about strolling through the streets of London with a fellow-countryman , and in the privacy afforded by their shining armour of courtesy and concern , to frankly recognize the difficult truth : that they are better than the people around them . |
| 10 | These are better than the poison-taking and tomb scenes . |
| 11 | By the end , the team results are better than the individuals can produce . |
| 12 | Of course they are better than the chip , chip shop are n't they ? |
| 13 | Mud houses , they say , are better than the devastation at home … now with winter around the corner they 're digging deeper for warmth … |
| 14 | It would have been better if the programmer 's skill was recognized making him the author or joint author of " computer-generated " works . |
| 15 | It might have been better if the barrister had not said what he did . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Last night the Foreign Office said : ‘ We can see now it would have been better if the advice had not been given . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | But I think you 're right on temporary annuities , they are good if the rate 's good . |
| 21 | Mind you you might be better than the Chancellor at that , but er |
| 22 | That will be better than the factory . ’ |
| 23 | It would be better than the ferries , cost travellers no more and ‘ would be toll free before it was ever likely to be publicly funded ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | But only at the moment when they have proven themselves to be better than the incumbent . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |