Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Swansea deserved to win because , hard though they tried to disguise it , they actually were the better side , and in Robert Jones and the accomplished Tony Clement , they had half-backs capable of rising above the long grass slicked by rain and the inevitable slippery ball . |
| 2 | It must be added that they were the better team , had the outstanding individual in Gordon Strachan and deserved the victory procured by a touch of finesse which could have Vinny Jones drummed out of the cloggers ' union . |
| 3 | Cambridge , he was convinced , were the better technicians ; Oxford had more horse power . |
| 4 | Mr Fenton claimed Forest were the better team but Mr Ferguson was hardly likely to agree . |
| 5 | So for things to get better they had to get worse ; the worse they were the better they 'd be in the future ; they could n't even start to get better before they 'd started to go drastically downhill . |
| 6 | It was never clear who was to blame for starting the niggles , but there could be no argument that , on the day , the Taiwanese were the better team . |
| 7 | I thought over the 90 minutes we were the better team . |
| 8 | We started a bit shaky , and took a while to adjust , but in the end we could have added to our tally , by which time I felt we were the better side . ’ |
| 9 | Disappointed Celtic boss Liam Brady admitted Borussia were the better side on the night and said : ‘ They could go on and win the trophy . |
| 10 | But the Wallabies , despite a shattering tour schedule and absent stars , were the better side , more cohesive in the loose and iron in defence , despite David Campese 's moments of wonderful madness . |
| 11 | But stand-in skipper McAllister took all this flak in his assured stride and said : ‘ That 's two weeks running we 've been rubbish because Graeme Souness tried to make out Liverpool were the better side after the Charity Shield . |
| 12 | They were the better kind that managed that because they did n't have much money to buy them , so . |
| 13 | He realised that the ‘ co-operators ’ were often only men taking advantage of the system to get what they wanted ; and that the men who refused to co-operate were the better men . |
| 14 | We played magnificently and I thought we were the better side . ’ |
| 15 | From all the reports and markings Leeds were the better side by far . |
| 16 | I think Holland were the better side last night … patient & pretty smooth moving the ball around ( compated to our typical British ‘ pashion ’ ) . |
| 17 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 18 | Watford were the better team in the second half they pulled level with a header from Julian Alsford and went and won it in the very last minute with a great strike from Gary Porter … |
| 19 | Derry were the better side at Gortakeegan for the first minutes they squandered several chances to kill off newcomers Monaghan and paid the penalty when the home side clawed their way back to force an equaliser . |
| 20 | Early on , the Quakers were the better side and had good scoring chances even before Nick Pickering blasted them ahead with a 25-yard volley in the 16th minute . |
| 21 | Brugge coach Hugo Broos bemoaned Nisbet 's goal and said : ‘ I thought we were the better team . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Dunfermline were hungrier , had more ideas and were the better side in tricky conditions . |
| 23 | Those were the good days . |
| 24 | ‘ Those were the good old days , the days of heroes , ’ Michael Quirke sighed , ‘ when men did n't fight over politics and religion , but over sensible things like cattle and women ! |
| 25 | Those evenings were the good times , when she did not question so fiercely what she was making of her life . |
| 26 | The favourite dances were the good old ones like the military two step , the Eva three step , the valeta and the St Bernard waltz . |
| 27 | ‘ We were the good guys then , ’ said Mr M. ‘ We were sorting out a problem family for them . ’ |
| 28 | Those were the good old days … of course . |
| 29 | For me , we were the good guys and they were the bad guys . |
| 30 | There were the good things , too , she reminded him . |