Example sentences of "was [adv] good [art] " 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 Business was so good a new home had to be found when the Comedy had to go on to other previously arranged bookings .
4 For regular users of the car park ( members of staff ) recall of parking position was extremely good the same day , falling dramatically with the number of interpolated parking episodes .
5 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 .
6 Hoomey had said no one would go back there tonight and it was as good a place to mooch about in as any other .
7 I do n't think it was as good a Cabinet and certainly the debates on economic policy really ceased to exist .
8 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 .
9 It was as good a time as ever — the lawnmower season starts in mid-February , so any deal has to be done now . ’
10 He was destined to head Romania 's nuclear power and research programme , which was as good a reason to emigrate as any other .
11 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 .
12 It was as good a place as any .
13 It was as good a place as he could hope to find .
14 It had to happen sometime and now was as good a time as any .
15 It was important to get there and a lift in Miles ' odious yellow Cortina was as good a way as any other .
16 ‘ We thought it was as good an excuse as any and we were all able to get away at the same time .
17 He was as good an advertisement for vegetables as I 'd ever come across .
18 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 .
19 This was as good an excuse as any .
20 That was quite good a difficult stairs and the bannister .
21 But what also shone through was how good a play The Hooded Owl was .
22 This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique .
23 It was too good a job to risk doing otherwise , and besides , the cameras were always there , so she had to .
24 It is , of course , really a serious matter but the photograph was too good a subject to ignore .
25 For them it was too good a chance to miss .
26 It was too good a place to miss out on .
27 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 . "
28 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 .
29 He might not like or respect Florian personally , but he knew he was too good a jock to lose .
30 But the thing was nobody was impressed with him he was too much of er he was too good a speaker you know .
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