Example sentences of "[was/were] good and [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They will make things there which , if the climate were better and the labour more flexible and less expensive , they would have continued to make in this country . |
| 2 | He was superb but she was better and the voice coated the entire stage , the entire production with a quality never before heard in Hochhauser . |
| 3 | The ocean which appeared to stretch across all our visible horizon was in fact a loch , Ultima Esperanza , a sea-loch that reached 200 miles inland and from where Pacific shipping could , in theory ( if the master was good and the compass correct ) navigate its way deep inside the Andean chain . |
| 4 | Because the quality of water was good and the price relatively low , it had not been used ‘ as wisely as it might have been ’ . |
| 5 | No sign of any crash repair damage was evident in the bodywork , panel alignment was good and the diamond white paintwork looked blemish-free until closer inspection revealed the truth . |
| 6 | Last year she spent £30,000 of our tax money on a poll which revealed that in Wokingham , Surrey , car park charges were not popular , refuse collection was good and the district council 's various patches of grass needed cutting . |
| 7 | He did not seem to appreciate the contradiction between his virulent denunciations of parliamentary democracy and the increasingly close economic ties being woven between Spain and the western democracies ; nor between his belief that economic nationalism was best and the fact that unless Spain liberalized its economic policies , it would remain isolated from the growth then beginning to be enjoyed by the rest of Europe . |