Example sentences of "good than the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He preferred the slow , peaceful life of the Devon countryside to the frenetic bustle of the metropolis : playing for Exeter seemed better than the likelihood of being very small fish in the big Arsenal pool . |
| 2 | The salt air began to smell of rending , and the islanders in the water knew that Manjiku liked nothing better than the smell of blood . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | You get feeding better than the rest of us you do . |
| 7 | And if the management of secondary school science departments includes the management of review and of staff development then the effect of a whole-team approach to TVEI and the sharing of ideas , expertness and good practice will be better than the effect of teachers accepting TVEI principles on an individual basis . |
| 8 | This was better than the book of the same name . |
| 9 | I 've always known you could be much better than the sort of parts you usually play . |
| 10 | He thought of himself , stunning them all by running and swimming and riding and shooting better than the lot of them , and them all eating their words and cheering and him being cool , man . |
| 11 | Justifiably , the city 's defenders can point out that whilst life for working-class Brummies was and still can be hard , it is better than the lot of an agricultural labourer in the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | Whatever the poets might say , no children could ‘ run to lisp their sire 's return ’ and climb his knee in a hovel , measuring 7 feet by 12 feet , housing five people , the bed 's end within a foot of the fire and the floor no better than the pavement of a street . |
| 13 | Times are hard , and from the employees ' point of view the possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing . |
| 14 | Had Peter implied , or worse even , said , that Anna had rushed impetuously to take a job in a supermarket because anything was better than the prospect of an unchanged status quo ? |