Example sentences of "better than [art] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The army was an unsatisfactory occupation for a man who lacked the money to purchase promotion , for he was likely to be in the situation of the Master of Elphinstone , who complained in 1715 that ‘ I have served as Capt[ai-n] this nine years which I have the vanity to believe intitelis me to something better than a company of foot ’ . |
| 4 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |
| 5 | This program is the best of its kind on the market for page making facilities , it is far better than a number of ‘ Commercial ’ pagemaking programs that are popular with users who only have a dot-matrix printer . |
| 6 | I think moving 's better than a week of I V P . |
| 7 | ‘ I think it 's a lot better than a lump of metal , ’ Matilda said . |
| 8 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 9 | A grand view of Horse Guards Parade — oh well it 's better than a view of John and Norma Major . |
| 10 | It made her howl with bitterness when she was alone in the weeks that followed , and it made her grit her teeth as she strode through the streets looking for revenge , or for her baby , or for Dorothy , not too sure what she was looking for but usually coming home with nothing better than a bag of old tins . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Now , we did n't have a recession in nineteen eighty six , but I would suggest that augers rather better than the mongers of gloom and doom would have us believe for nineteen ninety one . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But I question whether the ‘ intent to create legal relations ’ formula will in the long run work any better than the rules of consideration . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | You get feeding better than the rest of us you do . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | This was better than the book of the same name . |
| 22 | I 've always known you could be much better than the sort of parts you usually play . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Times are hard , and from the employees ' point of view the possibility of something is better than the certainty of nothing . |
| 27 | 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 ? |