Example sentences of "be good than [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even if you 're better than a master you still have to wait . |
| 2 | or maybe twenty per cent , ten per cent think they 're better than the teacher thinks they are , ten per cent think that |
| 3 | They are better than no cheques . |
| 4 | Society tells them they 're rubbish , because they ca n't find jobs , but it also tells them that they are better than the blacks . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's our newest arrival ’ said the Foreman with a laugh ; adding thoughtlessly , ‘ and I 'll bet her conditions are better than the ones you had to put up with in the war . |
| 6 | Cos these are better than the ones |
| 7 | As you walk through the industrial towns you lose yourself in labyrinths of little brick houses blackened by smoke , festering in planless chaos round miry alleys and little cindered yards where there are stinking dustbins and lines of grimy washing and half-ruinous w.c.s. … at their very worst the Corporation houses are better than the slums they replace . |
| 8 | The only potential for sorrow in the poem is the age of Asophus , Florimelia 's father , who nonetheless sleeps easily at night since his virtue and simplicity are better than the vanities of wealth . |
| 9 | All the vegetable fats are better than the animal |
| 10 | Please do n't take offence : the socialists are better than the rest all the same . |
| 11 | There is something very sweet about strolling through the streets of London with a fellow-countryman , and in the privacy afforded by their shining armour of courtesy and concern , to frankly recognize the difficult truth : that they are better than the people around them . |
| 12 | These are better than the poison-taking and tomb scenes . |
| 13 | By the end , the team results are better than the individuals can produce . |
| 14 | Of course they are better than the chip , chip shop are n't they ? |
| 15 | Mud houses , they say , are better than the devastation at home … now with winter around the corner they 're digging deeper for warmth … |
| 16 | What could be better than a captive ( and captured ) audience ! |
| 17 | After all , what could be better than a get-together with local musicians , listening to your favourite gear played how it should be played , and the all-important bottle of Carlsberg ! |
| 18 | And what could be better than a guitar which is guaranteed to be one of a limited number produced this year ? |
| 19 | By definition , a scheme of that size must be better than a scheme that is based on an individual privatised subsidiary or on one privatised company on its own . |
| 20 | He had been so sure before — and anything would be better than a decision that he might later come to regret . |
| 21 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
| 22 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |
| 23 | Mind you you might be better than the Chancellor at that , but er |
| 24 | That will be better than the factory . ’ |
| 25 | It would be better than the ferries , cost travellers no more and ‘ would be toll free before it was ever likely to be publicly funded ’ . |
| 26 | I have to say that in no way will this option be better than the colour changer , because for Norwegian jacquard , you will still have to make a semi-automatic colour change with the jacquard claw every two rows and this is slower . |
| 27 | But only at the moment when they have proven themselves to be better than the incumbent . |
| 28 | A preference consists of anything done or suffered to be done by the vendor which has the effect of putting one of its creditors , or any surety or guarantor , into a position which , in the event of the vendor going into insolvent liquidiation , would be better than the position which such person would have been in if that thing had not been done . |
| 29 | I 'd sent tapes to Radio One and I 'd also spent time devising quizzes that I thought would be better than the ones they were doing . |
| 30 | I 'd rather go in the shop and see it cos sometimes , especially if it 's got a pattern on turn out to be better than the catalogue cos when it comes , it do n't look the same , and then the same colour do you ? |