Example sentences of "[pron] better than a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who better than a renegade aristocrat to revel in man 's proximity to animals — hence all those feline females and canine males . |
| 2 | Li'l Abner — without the colour of the comic strip in the Sunday paper — seemed bogus , and bogus hillbilly at that ; but David and Earl , both schooled in the macho preference for raucous art , liked nothing better than a bogus barnyard . |
| 3 | He enjoys the company of others , likes nothing better than a good dinner surrounded by friends , and large noisy get-togethers with his family . |
| 4 | Poor boy , he had found nothing better than a dirty corner next to a lavatory ! |
| 5 | When Wales lost to Bridgend 10 days ago , home supporters , who would now like nothing better than a Test-match miracle at the Arms Park on 4 November , taunted the beaten team with chants of ‘ Easy ’ . |
| 6 | Nothing better than a smoothed way through Customs and Immigration , and ready transportation for the trip into a new city . |
| 7 | THEY were a typical Seventies university football team — boozy , rowdy , long-haired fun-lovers who liked nothing better than a riotous party . |
| 8 | They seem to assume that because my act is a bit obscene , I 'll like nothing better than a bigoted belly-laugh . |
| 9 | But then there was the question of replacing Susy , without James running himself ragged with the thousand-and-one chicks who wanted nothing better than a quick hop in the bed with a world star . |
| 10 | Cue for a queen : Spanish-born Fabiola of Belgium likes nothing better than a quiet game of billiards at home |
| 11 | The point we sought to make , Mr Smith , was that it was ludicrous to assume — as Ford has — that millions of people aspire to nothing better than an average car , and to note that the master marketeers will probably get away with peddling mediocrity yet again . |