Example sentences of "[art] good [noun] of [noun] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | There can be no better way to ensure a successful personal injury ( PI ) practice than by doing the work well ; there is no better source of advertising than a satisfied client . |
| 2 | His books were not widely circulated and in one of the last two which were dedicated to his son ( and unpublished ) was the assertion that it contains instances " that will make you a better interpreter of dreams than all , or at least inferior to none ; but , if published , they will show you know no more than the rest " — a sentiment which T. R. Glover rather pithily describes as suggesting science declining into profession . |
| 3 | Even those near the edge stand a better chance of survival than if they had been in a solitary nest far away in a place where local foxes can consume everything that is available . |
| 4 | FORMER CBI chief Sir Terence Beckett claims North-East small businesses have a better chance of survival than their counterparts elsewhere in the country . |
| 5 | A WOMAN who marries at the age of 42 has a better chance of success than when she was 23 . |
| 6 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 7 | But Anya 's a better judge of character than she used to be , back in the old homeland . |
| 8 | Connolly 's observation is often taken to confirm him as a better judge of literature than of politics , but in many ways he was remarkably prescient : Home was indeed ‘ honourably ineligible ’ for the new age which was dawning in the Tory party . |
| 9 | Munnings , he told reporters , was a better judge of horses than paintings . |
| 10 | For example , life expectancy is a better measure of health services than numbers of doctors per person , and calorie supply per capita is a better measure of nutrition than total production of food . |
| 11 | He found that the use of this weighting factor gave a better indicator of quality than the numbers of citations or of the numbers of papers published . |
| 12 | It is a better provider of energy than chocolate because of the lack of fat , plus it comprises a balance of three different natural sugars ; glucose , fructose and sucrose . |
| 13 | ‘ We have a better level of funding than many areas , but it is still discretionary and could be taken away . ’ |
| 14 | Pyridinoline ( also known as hydroxylysyl pyridinoline ) and deoxypyrolidine ( also known as lysyl-proline ) are not further metabolised , thus providing a better index of resorption than hydroxyproline , which also has the disadvantage that it is found in skin as well as bone . |
| 15 | It arose from some very good scientific research into smells that animals like and there 's no animal with a better sense of smell than a dog . |
| 16 | Other studies of young children with lower respiratory tract infections and wheezing illnesses in developed and developing countries have shown that hypoxaemia was a better predictor of outcome than individual clinical signs . |
| 17 | Why may unnormalized floating-point arithmetic give a better indication of accuracy than normalized arithmetic ? |
| 18 | Enterprising market economies are always — always , not sometimes — more effective in producing a higher standard of living and a better quality of life than those in which Governments try to run too much themselves . |
| 19 | Although it may hold back for reasons of cost and supply , and because the housing market is static , during this decade I believe we will see an increasing spread of relocation moves to those parts of the country which offer a better quality of life than London and the South-East . ’ |
| 20 | This was unusual as we normally have a better record of reliability than that . ’ |
| 21 | Normally , a flock of almost 3000 sheep was kept , producing a better grade of wool than the usual run of scraggy downland animals . |
| 22 | ‘ They 'll have to hire someone with good horses , and they wo n't find a better team of animals than we can supply . ’ |
| 23 | Leonora settled down to her breakfast in a better frame of mind than she would have believed possible the day before . |