Example sentences of "[was/were] [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were the better kind that managed that because they did n't have much money to buy them , so . |
| 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 | Mr Fenton claimed Forest were the better team but Mr Ferguson was hardly likely to agree . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I thought over the 90 minutes we were the better team . |
| 6 | 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 … |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | Brugge coach Hugo Broos bemoaned Nisbet 's goal and said : ‘ I thought we were the better team . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | Disappointed Celtic boss Liam Brady admitted Borussia were the better side on the night and said : ‘ They could go on and win the trophy . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ Dunfermline were hungrier , had more ideas and were the better side in tricky conditions . |
| 20 | Their lordships said that in matters of the public interest , government ministers and not the courts , were the best judge . |
| 21 | Our proposals were the best choice of evils . |
| 22 | The seaman — Gustave continued as if this were the best story he had heard for many years — apparently claimed that he had no notion of how the section of mast had reached the position in which it was found . |
| 23 | Shorn of all element of compulsion , now that the United States was no longer even pretending that the dollar was convertible into gold , the rise in official holdings of dollars showed that dollars were the best asset to hold . |
| 24 | Even Massine 's choreographic genius realised that the old stylised forms were the best way to portray the national dolls sold in the shop . |
| 25 | The new deal emphasised that partial shifts were the best way of reducing juniors ' hours in acute specialties and urged consultants to move to team working to facilitate this . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've always said you were the best blacksmith I ever had . ’ |
| 27 | But my 60 years at the farm were the best part of my life , and in spirit I am still there . |
| 28 | Although he did not hold with lies , there were occasions when they were the best option . |
| 29 | The section we chose were the ones that were chosen by the pathologist because they were the best representative sample of that tumour . |
| 30 | They were the best silk producers in the world . |