Example sentences of "good than a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet this was a man who felt nothing but contempt for her , who thought her no better than a thief . |
| 2 | Equally , a feminist who left a meeting , went home and jumped into bed with hubbie or boyfriend , was no better than a member of the fifth column . |
| 3 | If there are to be sacrifices and belt-tightening , the Soviet leaders love nothing better than a backdrop of international threat to add pathos and realism to the drama . |
| 4 | And later she had found that his body , scarred as it was , was better than the one which she had imagined for him , as a living and breathing man was better than a marble statue or painting , and her vision had lacked life . |
| 5 | And what could be better than a guitar which is guaranteed to be one of a limited number produced this year ? |
| 6 | Cromwell had thrown in his lot with the Levellers when it suited him two years before and so was regarded by them as no better than a mutineer himself when he turned against them . |
| 7 | There was just enough slope in the field to give him a decent run , though she felt sure it must be frustrating for someone so skilled to be stuck on what was little better than a nursery area . |
| 8 | The pay was much better than a secretary 's pay , and the work was more interesting . |
| 9 | But ‘ the Corsican ’ sounded better than a name . |
| 10 | A robot , with no matter how powerful an artificial intelligence , would perform no better than a person . ’ |
| 11 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
| 12 | Better than a kick in the teeth in n it ? |
| 13 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 14 | A record is better than a cassette . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | Lewis read the great realists of the past , even of the present , and he sometimes admired them ; but he saw their world as little better than a health-farm , held himself bound by no especial duty to study his own times , and longed for richer fare . |
| 17 | There was Mrs Moore , the dentist 's wife , mother of his friend who had committed suicide because life did not seem worth living ; and there was Mary Johnson 's mother looking as prim as a prune , not knowing that her daughter was no better than a streetwalker . |
| 18 | The availability of the combined transport operator 's comprehensive insurance is clearly better than a suit against an uninsured , insolvent issuer of a traditional ocean bill of lading . |
| 19 | I know you feel you 're justified , that I 'm little better than a fortune-hunter . |
| 20 | ‘ I adore children and love nothing better than a household full of youngsters . ’ |
| 21 | An eagle flies better than a pelican even though they 've both got wings . ’ |
| 22 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 23 | Some of them are very , very frail and they really get something out of the music , ’ said Mr Harper who likes nothing better than a foot-tapping , clapping and smiling congregation . |
| 24 | That one conception is somehow better than a second , supposing that that can be made out , is of course not the proposition that it is our conception or one of them . |
| 25 | " However you look at it , the whole thing is no better than a bucket shop , " he said . |
| 26 | What could be better than a captive ( and captured ) audience ! |
| 27 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 28 | A polite refusal to comment further is far better than a panic reply . |
| 29 | Even if you 're better than a master you still have to wait . |
| 30 | 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 . |