Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [adv] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was another very good performance in the Pacific which produced a profit of $1.8m against a loss in the same period last year of $1.4m . |
| 2 | Not unless there was another damned good reason for her flight , Guy concluded grimly . |
| 3 | King also saluted his rock solid back four , saying : ‘ There was some very good defending . |
| 4 | What actually happened was that a colleague of mine , Dave Walton and I , got together to look at a rather esoteric aspect of molecular motion , thinking of making molecules which were very , very long and had very simple structure but could have perhaps erm very complicated what we call dynamic motion , but there was some very good chemistry involved and we erm put this project together for the Sussex Chemistry Bithesis programme , and erm the student who took on this particular project , Alexander , spent two years learning how to do the synthesis and developed a lot of ability in this area ; he also learned how to do the spectroscopic experiments and studied the analysis of molecular motion , and he was able to do this on top of the course work that he did , and in fact this particular project and Alexander , who did the work himself , and the subsequent exciting sort of repercussions of the project have all made me a rather firm believer in the course here , and that in fact undergraduates can do research and also that it 's a very good training for the future . |
| 5 | It was all jolly good fun as well , of course . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But it was all rather good fun looking back on it . ’ |
| 7 | The domestic political stress caused in West Germany by such an influx ( which also of course , further undermined the East German economy , since many were skilled and professional people ) was one very good reason why Bonn was prepared to pour aid into its neighbour . |