Example sentences of "[pers pn] was good [conj] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ) . |
| 2 | 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 ] " . |
| 3 | It was better than a cockfight , and even better than the Battle . |
| 4 | It was better than a pantomime , but with one big difference . |
| 5 | It 's annoying and yet it was better than a p |
| 6 | He was better than a music-hall turn . |