Example sentences of "[was/were] too good [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The preparations for the centenary were too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 2 | She was too good a cook and I was too faithful a disciple of her art Just lounging by our bed-sitter 's fireside was the sweetest of all occupations . |
| 3 | He might not like or respect Florian personally , but he knew he was too good a jock to lose . |
| 4 | It is , of course , really a serious matter but the photograph was too good a subject to ignore . |
| 5 | He declined to hand over the cash , no matter what was threatened , and he was too good a salesman to be sacked , so the dealing manager yelled over to the accounts clerk : " Deduct £50 from his month 's wages . " |
| 6 | For them it was too good a chance to miss . |
| 7 | But the thing was nobody was impressed with him he was too much of er he was too good a speaker you know . |
| 8 | It was too good a job to risk doing otherwise , and besides , the cameras were always there , so she had to . |
| 9 | Don Burrell had long recognised that there were " two Janes " ; the Jane who knew she was too good a player not to win and the Jane who recognised that there was far less pressure attached to doing badly than doing well . |
| 10 | It was too good a place to miss out on . |
| 11 | This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique . |
| 12 | Miss Thorne did n't think this was too good an idea but time was precious , so she agreed . |
| 13 | Sloane himself reckoned that such an opportunity to travel and at the same time pursue the practice of physic was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 14 | This was too good an opportunity to miss because Alan had fished Hope for many years and knew every inch , intimately . |
| 15 | It was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 16 | Legend has it that Nigel Rudd was watching Magic Roundabout with his four year old son when he finally decided that the recession was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 17 | Legend has it that Nigel Rudd was watching Magic Roundabout with his four year old son when he finally decided that the recession was too good an opportunity to miss |
| 18 | The political turmoil in England following the deposition of Edward II was too good an opportunity for Bruce to miss , even though the truce of 1323 still had nine years to run . |
| 19 | Alborne seemed content to sit on their eight-goal lead but , when four Whaddon players left the pitch with ten minutes to go so they could catch the last bus , it was too good an opportunity to miss , and Alborne finally ran out winners by eleven goals to nil . |
| 20 | This was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 21 | It was too good an opportunity to miss . |
| 22 | A golf tournament with royal patronage was too good an opportunity for a publicity-minded company to miss . |
| 23 | Anthony Cheetham offered me complete control of the whole sales operation at the Orion Publishing Group Ltd , encompassing home and export sales for both hardbacks and mass market paperbacks , and while I have been very happy at Random House in its many incarnations , I felt it was too good an offer to miss . |
| 24 | This was too good an option to miss and in April 1989 the building was ordered . |