Example sentences of "better than [art] [noun] [prep] " 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 | Well it 's better than a kick in the teeth is n't it ? |
| 4 | Better than a kick in the teeth in n it ? |
| 5 | You have to admit , she 's better than a kick in the wot-nots ! |
| 6 | 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 ! |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | An unsuccessful artist was no better than a lunatic in the eyes of these people . |
| 9 | What is better than a run in the car followed by a good meal in a country inn or a pleasant roadhouse ? |
| 10 | Greg had been little better than a crook on the business front — and he had very nearly dragged her father — and his stupendous talent — down with him . |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | This is better than a night at the Follies . |
| 13 | And he was young enough to hope for something better than a pat on the head from the Leaderene . |
| 14 | A word processor is much better than a typewriter in letting you enter and edit your text more easily ; print it out as required with much more flexibility ; save it on disc for future work ; and transfer it through an IT link ( see , for instance , below , under communications ) to a colleague elsewhere . |
| 15 | Even for a paedophile , life in Russia might be better than a cell in Long Lartin prison . |
| 16 | Well that , thought Dalgliesh wryly , was better than a note in the parish magazine , a telephone call to the daily papers or a sermon next Sunday on the phenomenon of stigmata and the inscrutable wisdom of providence . |
| 17 | As an early morning reviver , or a welcome mid-morning break what could be better than a cup of your favourite coffee ? |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | My rather innocent trust crumbled when I realized that as far as the police were concerned , I was little better than a criminal on whom they must keep tabs . |
| 20 | Roy Morgan from Gloucester is a life-long darts fan and enjoys nothing better than a game over a glass of rum at his local , the Plough in Tredworth . |
| 21 | I think moving 's better than a week of I V P . |
| 22 | ‘ I think it 's a lot better than a lump of metal , ’ Matilda said . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Begging your pardon , Sir , but some of those alleged artists that get feted on BBC Two could paint no better than a monkey in the zoo . |
| 25 | A grand view of Horse Guards Parade — oh well it 's better than a view of John and Norma Major . |
| 26 | Cleanly shaven , smelling good and feeling better than a basketeer at a codpiece competition . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He says he had a fifty-fifty chance of surviving the operation but it was better than no odds at all . |
| 29 | And incidentally , we have also demonstrated to ourselves , yet again , that 5 per cent vision is better than no vision at all . |
| 30 | Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all . |