Example sentences of "[art] good [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 2 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 3 | It is not necessary to suppose that the design of a body or organ is the best that an engineer could conceive of . |
| 4 | Their father died when George was three years old , and the strongest influence on him , until she died when he was thirty-four , was his mother Magdalene , the patroness of John Donne , who wrote a well-known poem to her : Donne , in preaching her funeral sermon , described how , ‘ as her house was a court in the conversation of the best and an almshouse in feeding the poore , so it was also a hospital in ministering relief to the sick . |
| 5 | No better than a whore . |
| 6 | Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her , who thought her no better than a thief . |
| 7 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 8 | There was Mrs Moore , the dentist 's wife , mother of his friend who had committed suicide because life did not seem worth living ; and there was Mary Johnson 's mother looking as prim as a prune , not knowing that her daughter was no better than a streetwalker . |
| 9 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 10 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 11 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |
| 12 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 13 | A robot , with no matter how powerful an artificial intelligence , would perform no better than a person . ’ |
| 14 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 15 | Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo . |
| 16 | Donald 's wife Aileen looked upset and redeyed , without a minister the occasion seemed rough and ready , no better than a ceilidh , unlawful even , and her misgivings about the McLaggans had all revived . |
| 17 | However , this is all rather analytical and intellectual ; and if we ourselves can only function on this rational level , our communication with horses will be no better than a tourist who needs a phrase book or dictionary in a foreign country . |
| 18 | Carrying through life a heavy sense that early separation from Ottery had left him no better than an orphan , Coleridge took comfort in believing that his own grandfather had been an orphan before him , a nameless , parentless child , discovered beneath a Devon sky . |
| 19 | ‘ If he wants to behave no better than an animal , then let him wallow in it , ’ she told him , and no amount of cajoling would persuade her otherwise . |
| 20 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 21 | ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound . |