Example sentences of "[art] good than [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No better than a whore . |
| 2 | Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her , who thought her no better than a thief . |
| 3 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In dress he was no better than a brickwork tramp , though , in fairness , he wore a tie . |
| 9 | A robot , with no matter how powerful an artificial intelligence , would perform no better than a person . ’ |
| 10 | Her mother said that what he was doing was no better than a husband who runs off with another woman . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ 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 . |
| 16 | Those People treated me as if I were no better than an animal . |
| 17 | In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 18 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 19 | No but I mean it 's it 's no better than the seaside I mean . |
| 20 | Let his colleagues con themselves if they wished but he knew that Tech-Green , for all its grand , humane claims , was no better than the monetarist governments who 'd reigned and toppled before them . |
| 21 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 22 | The Canadian provisions would seem to be no better than the English in this respect . |
| 23 | Nevertheless , the most highly automated programme of language teaching is no better than the material it contains ; it is what we put into it that determines the quality of the automation . |
| 24 | Whatever the poets might say , no children could ‘ run to lisp their sire 's return ’ and climb his knee in a hovel , measuring 7 feet by 12 feet , housing five people , the bed 's end within a foot of the fire and the floor no better than the pavement of a street . |