Example sentences of "[adv] good [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | exceed all the others in Europe for wholesome produce and a variety of Herbs are those at the Neat-Houses near Tuttle-fields , Westminster , which abound in Salads , early Cucumbers , Colliflowers , Melons , Winter Asparagus and almost every Herb fitting the Table ; and I think there is no where so good a school for a Kitchen Gardener as this place : tho' Battersea affords the largest natural Asparagus and the earliest Cabbages . |
| 2 | Who dare offer anything to her in such an orderly and wellgoverned house as yours , and under a master of so good a character for virtue and honour ? |
| 3 | In one of his letters to Gould in Australia , Prince writes , ‘ I and Joseph are both much pleased to hear so good a report of Gilbert . |
| 4 | While the others seemed still obsessed with the catastrophe of 1870 , Pétain was assiduously and pragmatically studying more recent campaigns such as the Boer War and the RussoJapanese War of 1905 , where the defence had given so good an account of itself . |
| 5 | While the summers were generally fairly good the making of hay , the main winter fodder , could be difficult resulting in poor quality feed . |
| 6 | Will he re-emphasise that at the end of the day the document is all about contracting out to produce as good a service at less cost or a better service at the same price ? |
| 7 | On the other hand , those might turn out to be right who think that man is responsible for but a very small part of the destruction of fish that is constantly going on ; and in that case a boat starting with equally good appliances and an equally efficient crew would be likely to get nearly as good a haul after the increase in the total volume of the fishing trade as before . |
| 8 | The evidence is that you stand as good a chance of getting the choice of currency right as the experts if the return from the managed funds is anything to go by . |
| 9 | ‘ Oh , most marriages would start off with as good a chance of success as failure , I suppose , if it were n't for outside influences , but there are too many women like you around , taking what you want with no thought for anyone else involved , and then hanging on once you 've got it — out of sheer habit or emotional laziness , it sometimes seems to me . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I did not relish visiting Gayfield when I was a Celtic player and my team now has as good a chance of beating Rangers as anybody else . |
| 11 | In terms of sheer craft , Conrad is as good a writer of prose as Patrick White , which is saying a great deal . |
| 12 | Yet here , in his uncharacteristic hesitancy , the penetrating and infuriating Alvin Toffler is probably as good a reflection of the 1990 's and as else . |
| 13 | Let me now vouch for his kindness and generosity , for he was as good a friend to me as he was to dozens of others , not all of them writers . |
| 14 | It seemed as good a way of ingratiating myself as any other : the palace was a protective place , and there was no automatic guarantee that a visiting journalist would be granted an audience . |
| 15 | I 've known for years that I 'm as good a guest at a dinner party as I am a lousy host . |
| 16 | Many old people are as good a set of consumers as anyone else , but the very old and frail are at risk . |
| 17 | Neither the seamen nor their leaders , Shinwell admitted , had heard of the Queensberry rules ; " they had one common characteristic , a belief that toughness and a bellicose attitude were as good a rule of life as any and while many seamen were of a friendly disposition and hated trouble , some would attack from the rear and use a razor or a broken bottle " . |
| 18 | It is but then er there are many schemes that er we have that do n't have as good a rate of return as the the blue route , that is an extremely healthy economic rate of return for the outer northern blue route . |
| 19 | ‘ Man , Ranald , we 've not had as good a season in years ! |
| 20 | Hoomey had said no one would go back there tonight and it was as good a place to mooch about in as any other . |
| 21 | Mazur 's story , which will undoubtedly feature one day on the silver screen , is as good a tale of derring-do as one could ever wish for . |
| 22 | ‘ You have almost as good a view from your bedroom . ’ |
| 23 | You see , I must admit you see not I do n't gon na do as good a job as |
| 24 | Aura , a CBS recording made in Scandinavia four years ago ( Davis went to WEA for his last two albums , after 30 years with Columbia ) , is as good a demonstration of that as anything the trumpeter has recorded since his most famous collaborations with Gil Evans . |
| 25 | A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making . |
| 26 | A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making . |
| 27 | But it is seldom given as good an excuse for playing rough as it was this week by the blunder of the guerrilla force that has been fighting it for 23 years in Namibia and by the embarrassing unreadiness of the United Nations peacekeeping force to do its job of supervising the Namibian peace settlement . |
| 28 | Despite almost a decade of critical review and the existence of alternative formulas for identifying deprivation the Jarman index remains as good an indicator of potential demand for general practitioner services as exists . |
| 29 | He was as good an advertisement for vegetables as I 'd ever come across . |
| 30 | It was put repeatedly to the psychologist witnesses called by the defence that whatever the tests might say those present could form as good an impression of Mr X 's intelligence from observing his behaviour in the witness box . |