Example sentences of "[is] better than [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
| 2 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 3 | I think moving 's better than a week of I V P . |
| 4 | A grand view of Horse Guards Parade — oh well it 's better than a view of John and Norma Major . |
| 5 | Well , it 's better than no job at all som I hear them say . |
| 6 | ‘ Fams ’ describes re-starting the Wailers as ‘ rough ’ and it might not be as glorious a gig as playing Zimbabwe 's independence celebrations with Bob , but it 's better than the fate of most reggae elders ; redundancy thanks to computerised ragga . |
| 7 | Clearly a damaged shell is better than no shell at all . |
| 8 | Life in a box is better than no life at all . |
| 9 | Brave , but probably mistaken : even teen success is better than no success at all . |
| 10 | And incidentally , we have also demonstrated to ourselves , yet again , that 5 per cent vision is better than no vision at all . |
| 11 | Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all . |
| 12 | Well , I think you need to recognize that really sales volume is , it it takes us back again to the fact that any customer is better than no customer at all . |
| 13 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told fellow ministers : ‘ A treaty which is somewhat delayed is better than no treaty at all . ’ |
| 14 | As Margaret Peter 's research showed , any systematic approach to spelling , whatever its basis , is better than no approach at all . |
| 15 | The view from a coach is better than no view at all I suppose , but I know which way we preferred to arrive at Rhosili . |
| 16 | Sometimes , sadly , even a bad deal is better than no deal at all . |
| 17 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 18 | The maxim that ‘ negative attention is better than no attention at all ’ seems to be an important governing factor in children 's behaviour . |
| 19 | The £18m project , including a government offer to pay for approach roads , will be discussed this month by the Highland Regional Council which must decide whether a private toll bridge is better than no bridge at all . |
| 20 | Wherever we have an X in a real live animal , where X is some organ too complex to have arisen by chance in a single step , then according to the theory of evolution by natural selection it must be the case that a fraction of an X is better than no X at all A and two fractions of an X must be better than one ; and a whole X must be better than nine-tenths of an X. I have no trouble at all in accepting that these statements are true of eyes , ears including bat ears , wings , camouflaged and mimicking insects , snake jaws , stings , cuckoo habits and all the other examples trotted out in antievolution propaganda . |
| 21 | I suppose a half-match is better than no match at all . |
| 22 | Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all . |
| 23 | Not only is it clear that part of an eye is better than no eye at all . |
| 24 | At least Nautilus dramatizes the point that a lensless eye is better than no eye at all . |
| 25 | Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all . |
| 26 | This is better than a night at the Follies . |
| 27 | What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ? |
| 28 | In Scotland the track record is better than the rest of Britain , with Employment Service staff maintaining its target of ensuring that 3 per cent of its job placements are for disabled people , according to its Scottish director , Alan Brown . |
| 29 | Times are hard , and from the employees ' point of view the possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing . |
| 30 | On the other hand there is clinical evidence that the right hemisphere is better than the left in recognition of visually degraded stimuli even when these are letters and thus verbal in nature ( Faglioni , Scotti and Spinnler , 1969 ) . |