Example sentences of "good [coord] [adv] [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whether judges are better or less able than others to assess the merits and demerits of political policies is beside the point , because that is not their function . |
| 2 | The Council commissioned market research which revealed that 93 per cent of those questions rated water services as very good or quite good while 83 per cent rated drainage services similarly . |
| 3 | Once parts and ideas come to the assembly line , the overseas factories are virtually as good or as bad as their Japanese counterparts at sending cars out of the factory doors . |
| 4 | There were weaknesses — batteries were neither so good nor so light as they are today and in any case this was the first step . |
| 5 | I called in on Ruth at lunchtime today and found her sitting up in her wheelchair looking out at the garden and seeming much better and as bright as usual — a nice nurse in attendance . |
| 6 | Yet I did not want to leave things alone entirely , without making an effort , but it is restricted to the expression of two things — the cypresses — the olive trees — let others who are better and more powerful than I reveal their symbolic language … |
| 7 | ‘ Look — we 've just got to gain people 's confidence and prove that we 're better and more caring than those two wretched men . ’ |
| 8 | Indeed its user interface is judged by some to be better and more logical than AutoCAD 's . |
| 9 | Of an evening , you might find yourself subjected to an ‘ American Food Promotion ’ and a honky-tonk Filipino band , but the food is better and more varied than anywhere else on the island and a dependable supply of cold beer is essential . |
| 10 | Fighting for a place in the Leeds United line-up must be better and more important than fighting for a place in Norway 's World Cup squad . |
| 11 | Peter Clarke , in his Monday column ( 15 March ) , raises some ideas worthy of debate in proposing that new rural villages would be better and more popular than improving urban areas . |
| 12 | Thomas Sachs was as good and as generous as his word . |
| 13 | But I reminded myself that I was fortunate to have any sort of job , and that I would certainly get used to teaching these girls , who , although they were very poor , might be as good and as intelligent as children from the greatest families in England . |
| 14 | Erm so , so really what er although when you came to summarize the needs I 've actually put good but too technical because we all knew what you were getting at but erm but to actually be doing that but not know at what point he needs to stop at or wants to stop it , you did n't know erm the pension that he wanted and you did n't know at what age he wanted to retire at that point you know , you , you had n't got any of those facts from him , you know |