Example sentences of "be [adv] good as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therese could be rather good as Countess Maritza . |
| 2 | A If you put it in with another colour , all you get are ‘ streaks ’ which wo n't be much good as you are trying to change the colour . |
| 3 | I shall be obliged to you if you will be so good as to let the bearer have my copy of the last year 's Transactions , in which you will greatly oblige , Sir , your most humble servant , Philip Miller . |
| 4 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 5 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 6 | Now if you will be so good as to let me pass . ’ |
| 7 | If you would be so good as to allow me a bucket of water , provide shirt and breeches , to be paid for when the meeting is over . ’ |
| 8 | I shou 'd like a cloth one best if you please — I beg of your Sir to be so good as not to fail me this Cardinal by Wednesday , without fail , but let it be full yard long I beg , or else it will not do fail not on Wednesday , and in so doing you will very much oblige me . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps if you could be so good as to slip the jacket off , Major , we might complete the hanging of the trousers ? ’ |
| 10 | ‘ Now if the Major would be so good as to arrange a workroom , I can have the suit finished in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 11 | " Would you be so good as to ask Mr Lee to step out here please . |
| 12 | Perhaps you will be so good as to tell your guards to accompany me to the foot of the hill ? " |
| 13 | I will pawn my life for her , she will never be so pert to your honour if you will be so good as to molest her no more . |
| 14 | JEWKES : O , you are very good , sir , very forgiving indeed , but come , I hope you will be so good as to take her to your bosom and that my tomorrow morning you 'll bring her to a better sense of her duty . |
| 15 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |
| 16 | Would his Imperial Majesty the Shah be so good as to pause in Marrakesh on his way to the US ? |
| 17 | ‘ Kindly adjust the temperature , Mr Peckham , before it boils away , and then be so good as to ask Mr Pegg if he can spare the time to rejoin us . ’ |
| 18 | If you have information to sell , be so good as to state your price , that I may be left in privacy . |
| 19 | ‘ I think , sir , that it would be better if you — and Aycliffe also — would be so good as to leave us to settle matters to our mutual satisfaction . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Please be so good as to enlighten me . ’ |
| 21 | These tend to rot in the sun and though the treads might be as good as new , they will have to be changed because of the cracks in the walls . |
| 22 | I say new civilization , I do n't know that I care about its being so very different from the best that has been , but it must be as good as the best that has been . |
| 23 | A spiritual void needs to be satisfied , so what is offered as serious and sacrosanct must be as good as it pretends . |
| 24 | I do n't spect I could be as good as her , but I 'd be nearly as good . |
| 25 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 26 | And even if you were , for instance , a good violinist you would never be as good as your best players . |
| 27 | City : Property without solid foundations Bricks and mortar were once thought to be be as good as money in the bank . |
| 28 | ‘ We buy 50 to 60 cars a year , and if they prove to be as good as they are at the moment at the end of the year I think we could be in the market again for more diesels . |
| 29 | Would the prospects turn out to be as good as in the 1970s ? |
| 30 | Part of the difficulty with the image came from the noisy fears of the critics , especially those who insisted that comprehensive schools would , if they were to be as good as grammar schools , have to be huge . |