Example sentences of "good [noun] than the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You ca n't say , for example , that a regular male is a better male than the transvestite . |
| 2 | It was sad for me that I had fallen in love with someone who did not love me , but it was not an experience I cared to repeat — for more and better reasons than the fear of pain . |
| 3 | The android continues to fulfil all its courtly duties and even becomes a trusted confidant of the Emperor , and the princess discovers it actually makes a better lover than the original . |
| 4 | Then there was Denis Zachaire , a young gentleman of Guienne , who invested all the money meant for his education in — the furnishing of an alchemical laboratory — regrettably to no better effect than the loss of his tutor who died from the quantity of soot he inhaled . |
| 5 | So when UNITA arrived in Abidjan last month , fresh from victory at Huambo , it was determined to get a much better deal than the agreement in May 1991 which supposedly ended Angola 's decade and a half of civil war . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps you would rather a good shafting than the whip ? ’ |
| 7 | Since then , in an action for ‘ Wrongful interference with goods ’ the defendant is entitled to show , in accordance with Rules of Court , that a third party has a better right than the plaintiff as respects all or any part of the interest claimed by the plaintiff or in right of which he sues . |
| 8 | She will know at what point domestic happiness begins to cloy , where love , tidiness , rent , rates , clothes , entertaining , and rings at the doorbell should stop , and will recognize that there is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall . ’ |
| 9 | I have never understood why she was criticised by the Opposition for speaking up for Britain , but I am not exactly clear about their present position , except that they seem to be claiming that they can negotiate better conditions than the Government , despite their failure when in government in 1975 to negotiate proper terms for our entry . |
| 10 | If the transferor 's rights were subject to a third party claim , or if the transferor was not the true owner of the goods shipped , his assignee-endorsee had no better rights than the transferor . |
| 11 | The only other son is a child , and his nephew will have no better chance than the rest of his brothers-in-law and their offspring against the brethren of Wessex , once Siward goes . |
| 12 | There were still those in the skilled , supervisory , and managerial groups , who might have sought alternative employment and stood a better chance than the majority of finding it , who chose instead to take early retirement . |
| 13 | There are certain requirements to be complied with in order for a purchaser to obtain a better title than the seller : |
| 14 | There is no better example than the fact that every Labour Government since the war have increased unemployment . |
| 15 | There is no better example than the East Ridge of the Aigulle Noire . |
| 16 | You could make no better start than the Ridgeway national trail , running from Overton Hill in Wiltshire to Ivinghoe Beacon in Buckinghamshire . |
| 17 | When examining the structure of local government and establishing the local government commission , one could not make any better start than the appointment of Sir John Banham as the chairman of the commission if one wants common sense , quality decision making and a tough-minded approach . |
| 18 | And he is a better man than the King . |
| 19 | She was a better man than the rest of them put together ! |
| 20 | Between them they had many more divisions and better rockets than the West . |
| 21 | The incidents of 1766 can serve to illustrate the usual and recurrent forms of food rioting , although the geographical pattern reflects the fact that the North had a better harvest than the South that year . |
| 22 | Even so , he is in better plight than the collector , for he can at least attempt to supply the deficiency from his doubtless fertile imagination . |
| 23 | I think the inadequate yardstick of ‘ O ’ level is often applied to us to see whether schools that practice this sort of establishment are in fact succeeding , and they are succeeding again and again and again by getting better results than the Grammar Schools did , but by much more important criteria , by the criteria of teaching skills and values . |
| 24 | ‘ Certainly we 'll need a better ship than the kind I 've seen in Pantai and Losan . ’ |
| 25 | There is no better servant than the PROFITBOSS . |
| 26 | The Vendor has a much better idea than the Purchaser of the Business . |
| 27 | They were made parties to these proceedings but , since the debt owing to the building society now exceeds the value of the property and since they can be in no better position than the building society , they have taken no part in the proceedings . |
| 28 | On the other hand , if the right to refuse to transfer does not entail the right to remain for the transferor , perhaps the employee 's right to refuse on the sale of a business is nearly illusory , and he or she is in reality in no better position than the worker who sees the employing company bought over his or her head . |
| 29 | By November 1912 only fifty-one constituencies in Great Britain were without candidates , a much better position than the position at dissolution in either 1909 or 1910 ; few of these fifty-one constituencies were winnable , but in any case most of them had candidates by the end of 1913 . |
| 30 | ‘ if a creditor , or potential creditor , of a husband desires to obtain , by way of security for the husband 's indebtedness , a guarantee from his wife … then the creditor can be in no better position than the husband himself , and the creditor can not enforce the guarantee or the security against the wife if it is established that the execution of the document by the wife was procured by undue influence of the husband and the wife had no independent advice . |