Example sentences of "[was/were] [adj] [verb] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Happily it was rare to be as unfortunate as Dooley on the field , but few were able to make a good career in the game . |
| 2 | It was possible to have a good Christmas , but a change had been forced onto us and it was different from what we 'd planned . |
| 3 | I wanted to prove it was possible to have a good time without getting off my face . |
| 4 | And of course , in Lord Darlington 's days , when ladies and gentlemen would often visit for many days on end , it was possible to develop a good understanding with visiting colleagues . |
| 5 | He was delighted to receive a good price for me , especially as he felt sure I would not live longer than a month . |
| 6 | He was delighted to report a good response from the students : ‘ They were very attentive and asked some informed and thoughtful questions , ’ he commented . |
| 7 | It was hard to see a good reason for it . |
| 8 | Yet it was hard to make a good living here as the Peruvians did not seem to like their own music . |
| 9 | Each time she looked up his eyes met hers and she was unable to put a good face on things . |
| 10 | His chief failing was a habit of cracking heavy pedantic jokes ; he was unable to let a good idea drop , and remarked several times during the course of the film that the heroine looked like she ought to be playing the horse . |
| 11 | She was able to give a good account of herself and was reasonably cheerful during the interview , except when she talked about her boyfriend and about the distress she had caused her parents . |
| 12 | By digging his heels into the rocks he was able to lunge a good six feet nearer the home bank . |
| 13 | He was able to do a good impression of a struggling young writer , as he looked more late thirties than early forties . |
| 14 | When I married , I was able to get a good job and a house for my family . |
| 15 | I was not able to see the CIEFL in session , but through discussions was able to get a good idea of the activities of its various English Departments . |