Example sentences of "was [adv] good [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cromer dominated Egypt , not because England gave him force , or because Egypt loved us , but because he was so good a man . ’ |
| 2 | Irwin had triumphed because , as Lawrence had said of Cromer , ‘ he was so good a man ’ . |
| 3 | It was important to get there and a lift in Miles ' odious yellow Cortina was as good a way as any other . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He was destined to head Romania 's nuclear power and research programme , which was as good a reason to emigrate as any other . |
| 6 | I do n't think it was as good a Cabinet and certainly the debates on economic policy really ceased to exist . |
| 7 | On his day Gerry was as good a centre-forward as any in the land and would almost certainly have won a string of Scottish International caps had he been with a more successful club . |
| 8 | It was as good a time as ever — the lawnmower season starts in mid-February , so any deal has to be done now . ’ |
| 9 | With John going to Wildenrath , Lindsey decided it was as good a time as ever to be converted onto his aircraft and in October John converted Lindsey onto the Corsair , and in doing so , Lindsey went from 230hp in the ‘ Me 108 ’ to 2,400hp in the Corsair , a horsepower-leap that must be the largest anyone flying warbirds has ever done . |
| 10 | It had to happen sometime and now was as good a time as any . |
| 11 | Hoomey had said no one would go back there tonight and it was as good a place to mooch about in as any other . |
| 12 | It was as good a place as any . |
| 13 | It was as good a place as he could hope to find . |
| 14 | ‘ We thought it was as good an excuse as any and we were all able to get away at the same time . |
| 15 | This was as good an excuse as any . |
| 16 | That , she thought , was as good an idea as any , and on silent feet she went as swiftly as she had come back to her kitchen . |
| 17 | He was as good an advertisement for vegetables as I 'd ever come across . |
| 18 | But what also shone through was how good a play The Hooded Owl was . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He might not like or respect Florian personally , but he knew he was too good a jock to lose . |
| 21 | It is , of course , really a serious matter but the photograph was too good a subject to ignore . |
| 22 | 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 . " |
| 23 | For them it was too good a chance to miss . |
| 24 | But the thing was nobody was impressed with him he was too much of er he was too good a speaker you know . |
| 25 | It was too good a job to risk doing otherwise , and besides , the cameras were always there , so she had to . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | It was too good a place to miss out on . |
| 28 | This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique . |
| 29 | Miss Thorne did n't think this was too good an idea but time was precious , so she agreed . |
| 30 | 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 . |