Example sentences of "a nice [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My mum 's the sort of person who 'll just argue with anything , if she thinks she 'll argue with anybody , or anything if she thinks that she 's being swindled , so like , she even went to the extent of having , they , we had an extension built , right , and she , we had it , only fair 's fair , this one particular suite , we had erm , and they , they had this absolutely massive bathroom built , okay not specifically to have a nicer bathroom , but to have a very big room and erm , so they had two sinks , this sounds real extravagant , erm , |
| 2 | You do n't have to kill a man because he 's got more money and a nicer home than you have . ’ |
| 3 | A nicer way of putting it . |
| 4 | A third X cubed might be a a nicer way to write cos we can keep all our constants together |
| 5 | Oh he 's going in the toilet , they 're better , that 's a nicer colour |
| 6 | Gone to a nicer bit of the river . |
| 7 | ‘ He was pleasant and charming , a nicer man you could n't meet . |
| 8 | He 's a nicer man than Malcolm — stupid Malcolm whom I 'd hoped to marry before he became besotted with Doreen . |
| 9 | THE IBM TRAGEDY : IT COULD N'T HAPPEN TO A NICER COMPANY |
| 10 | And in the news business it is generally reckoned it could n't have gone to a nicer bloke . |
| 11 | At least , that is the way it was with mine and I do n't believe there has ever been a nicer person . |
| 12 | After this , he became a nicer cat , + was n't so proud of himself all the time . |
| 13 | A nicer name . |
| 14 | He asked Mr Jotter who had picked the vowels and why they 'd chosen the letter ‘ u ’ instead of ‘ s ’ which he thought was a nicer shape . |
| 15 | ‘ Could n't have happened to a nicer chap . ’ |
| 16 | After Janey went back to Billy , Kevin had patched up his differences with his wife , Enid , but one of the conditions had been that Kevin would sponsor polo instead of show jumping to avoid bumping into Janey on the circuit , and because their daughter , Tracey , would meet a nicer class of young man in polo . |
| 17 | C. You get a nicer class of people . |
| 18 | A nicer class of people than what you … what I meet … met in the ordinary way . |
| 19 | ‘ I have wallscreens , music , everything in here and it 's … a nicer room than the other one , ’ he said . |
| 20 | You know , they have a nicer time of it here altogether do n't they ? |
| 21 | Is there a nicer hospital to work in ? |
| 22 | Can there be , Berkeley asks , ‘ a nicer strain of abstraction than to distinguish the existence of sensible objects from their being perceived , so as to conceive them existing unperceived ’ ? |
| 23 | The rewards will be improvements in the quality of relationships and in the effectiveness of the school , measuring how the school has become a nicer place for all , calls for changes to be shown across a range of measures : |
| 24 | ‘ If the chairman keeps me , it 's not because he thinks I 'm a good chap or the world 's a nicer place when I 'm here . |
| 25 | They are EAST 17 , they dress like the Wombles , they want the world to be a nicer place , they 're straight outta Walthamstow , and so is SIMON WILLIAMS |
| 26 | ‘ Hell , it 's a nicer place to end up than in a cut-price bin at the local record store . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But I could show you a nicer place to stroll , show you the town . |
| 28 | The group is made up of residents determined to make Heighington a nicer place to live . |
| 29 | and I think that looked a nicer length |
| 30 | We believe a cup of coffee leaves a nicer taste in your mouth when it 's given to you by name . |