Example sentences of "[is] [adj] than no " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , it 's better than no job at all som I hear them say . |
| 2 | Any pruning is better than no pruning . |
| 3 | The £18m project , including a government offer to pay for approach roads , will be discussed this month by the Highland Regional Council which must decide whether a private toll bridge is better than no bridge at all . |
| 4 | Brave , but probably mistaken : even teen success is better than no success at all . |
| 5 | Mr Shekhar replies that a flawed election is better than no election . |
| 6 | Sometimes , sadly , even a bad deal is better than no deal at all . |
| 7 | The utilitarian may argue that everything is imperfect and that half a loaf is better than no bread . |
| 8 | Gain-up does tend to make the picture look rather grainy , though , so it is best to look on it as a last resort and reserve it for those times when a grainy picture is better than no picture at all . |
| 9 | Part payment is better than no payment . |
| 10 | Half a loaf is better than no bread . |
| 11 | Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd told fellow ministers : ‘ A treaty which is somewhat delayed is better than no treaty at all . ’ |
| 12 | The maxim that ‘ negative attention is better than no attention at all ’ seems to be an important governing factor in children 's behaviour . |
| 13 | Clearly a damaged shell is better than no shell at all . |
| 14 | The view from a coach is better than no view at all I suppose , but I know which way we preferred to arrive at Rhosili . |
| 15 | As Margaret Peter 's research showed , any systematic approach to spelling , whatever its basis , is better than no approach at all . |
| 16 | Life in a box is better than no life at all . |
| 17 | Unpleasant though sweatshops may be , some argue , any work is better than no work . |
| 18 | Therefore , it remains to be proved whether the use of heater probe is better than no active treatment and a close observation of the patient . |
| 19 | And incidentally , we have also demonstrated to ourselves , yet again , that 5 per cent vision is better than no vision at all . |
| 20 | Not only is it clear that part of an eye is better than no eye at all . |
| 21 | At least Nautilus dramatizes the point that a lensless eye is better than no eye at all . |
| 22 | Five per cent vision is better than no vision at all . |
| 23 | Five per cent hearing is better than no hearing at all . |
| 24 | Five per cent flight efficiency is better than no flight at all . |
| 25 | Wherever we have an X in a real live animal , where X is some organ too complex to have arisen by chance in a single step , then according to the theory of evolution by natural selection it must be the case that a fraction of an X is better than no X at all A and two fractions of an X must be better than one ; and a whole X must be better than nine-tenths of an X. I have no trouble at all in accepting that these statements are true of eyes , ears including bat ears , wings , camouflaged and mimicking insects , snake jaws , stings , cuckoo habits and all the other examples trotted out in antievolution propaganda . |
| 26 | I suppose a half-match is better than no match at all . |
| 27 | Well , I think you need to recognize that really sales volume is , it it takes us back again to the fact that any customer is better than no customer at all . |
| 28 | Bonhams ' disclaimer for quality of service at the beginning should sound a note of warning : bad restoration is worse than no restoration . |
| 29 | 1.39 It is clear from Walkley v Precision Forgings that an unserved writ is worse than no writ at all . |