Example sentences of "good a [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fatty Harris , Rutshire 's club secretary , seconded for the day to do the commentary , had had rather too good a lunch in the Doggie Dins ' Tent and was waxing lyrical over the ancient names . |
| 2 | Of course , she missed her family , but her father 's promotion to foreign correspondent had been too good a chance for him to miss . |
| 3 | The evidence is that you stand as good a chance of getting the choice of currency right as the experts if the return from the managed funds is anything to go by . |
| 4 | ‘ Oh , most marriages would start off with as good a chance of success as failure , I suppose , if it were n't for outside influences , but there are too many women like you around , taking what you want with no thought for anyone else involved , and then hanging on once you 've got it — out of sheer habit or emotional laziness , it sometimes seems to me . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I did not relish visiting Gayfield when I was a Celtic player and my team now has as good a chance of beating Rangers as anybody else . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Forty years of political broadcasting and handling refugees had probably given Leni as good a sense of how the twilight world worked as Agnes had herself . |
| 8 | ‘ They 've got a good a squad of players as any in the division . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Wolves ! ’ shouted Giles drunkenly , ‘ wolves , that 's what they are , the pack of them , they 're traitors to the human race , scavengers , look at them , look at them , wolves is too good a word for them , jackals , hyenas , that 's what they are , hyenas ! ’ |
| 10 | Will he re-emphasise that at the end of the day the document is all about contracting out to produce as good a service at less cost or a better service at the same price ? |
| 11 | Still , he said , she probably got as good a service in London . ’ |
| 12 | then it went down to seven , fifty , now it 's six fifty it looking good a nick in , he 'd be lucky to get five I would have thought is there anyone you want a bit of crystal for ? |
| 13 | Monoamine oxidase inhibitors would prevent the inactivation of noradrenaline and other amines thought to act as neurotransmitters : might they be making good a lack of one of these amines in the tissues ? |
| 14 | In response , TNO told the primate centre and its associated radiobiology and immunology research institute ITRI to make good a deficit of around DF13.7 million ( US$2 million ) . |
| 15 | 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 . " |
| 16 | It seemed as good a way of ingratiating myself as any other : the palace was a protective place , and there was no automatic guarantee that a visiting journalist would be granted an audience . |
| 17 | So I really was confident I was going to pass , and he said , ‘ I 'll give you a pound if you pass , ’ which is n't really that good a way of teaching . |
| 18 | Well that 's probably a good a way of managing it as anything really . |
| 19 | In terms of sheer craft , Conrad is as good a writer of prose as Patrick White , which is saying a great deal . |
| 20 | Who dare offer anything to her in such an orderly and wellgoverned house as yours , and under a master of so good a character for virtue and honour ? |
| 21 | On the other hand , those might turn out to be right who think that man is responsible for but a very small part of the destruction of fish that is constantly going on ; and in that case a boat starting with equally good appliances and an equally efficient crew would be likely to get nearly as good a haul after the increase in the total volume of the fishing trade as before . |
| 22 | exceed all the others in Europe for wholesome produce and a variety of Herbs are those at the Neat-Houses near Tuttle-fields , Westminster , which abound in Salads , early Cucumbers , Colliflowers , Melons , Winter Asparagus and almost every Herb fitting the Table ; and I think there is no where so good a school for a Kitchen Gardener as this place : tho' Battersea affords the largest natural Asparagus and the earliest Cabbages . |
| 23 | Sukey raised eyebrows when he ordered rather too good a bottle of claret in restaurants . |
| 24 | Yet here , in his uncharacteristic hesitancy , the penetrating and infuriating Alvin Toffler is probably as good a reflection of the 1990 's and as else . |
| 25 | A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making . |
| 26 | A simple comparison of total estimated income from the competing products may provide as good a guide to decision making . |
| 27 | Aura , a CBS recording made in Scandinavia four years ago ( Davis went to WEA for his last two albums , after 30 years with Columbia ) , is as good a demonstration of that as anything the trumpeter has recorded since his most famous collaborations with Gil Evans . |
| 28 | In one of his letters to Gould in Australia , Prince writes , ‘ I and Joseph are both much pleased to hear so good a report of Gilbert . |
| 29 | It is but then er there are many schemes that er we have that do n't have as good a rate of return as the the blue route , that is an extremely healthy economic rate of return for the outer northern blue route . |
| 30 | Did a good a trade in restaurant . |