Example sentences of "too good [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 ! ’ |
| 2 | " Well , no , he did n't actually , that would have been too good a story . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | For them it was too good a chance to miss . |
| 5 | Of course , she missed her family , but her father 's promotion to foreign correspondent had been too good a chance for him to miss . |
| 6 | Too good a chance to miss . |
| 7 | For Rachel and Maggie , it 's too good a chance to miss . |
| 8 | It is , of course , really a serious matter but the photograph was too good a subject to ignore . |
| 9 | He might not like or respect Florian personally , but he knew he was too good a jock to lose . |
| 10 | But the thing was nobody was impressed with him he was too much of er he was too good a speaker you know . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | So er I thought well he , he was not a too good a rep because he , he could n't answer this question . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | I had arrived at work late on Monday morning and in none too good a temper . |
| 15 | Sukey raised eyebrows when he ordered rather too good a bottle of claret in restaurants . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't think he could be a traditional leading man — he 's got too good a brain — but he can play anything with an edge . ’ |
| 17 | Watch out for any vehicle that seems too good a bargain . |
| 18 | He 's far too good a diagnostician . |
| 19 | Mr Major said Mr Patten was ‘ too good a politician ’ to be out of the Commons . |
| 20 | And despite the Ramblers ' Association suggestion of management etc , we have not made too good a job of protecting other wilderness areas open to the public . |
| 21 | It was too good a job to risk doing otherwise , and besides , the cameras were always there , so she had to . |
| 22 | He , and other OSF plaudits , are concerned that Unix System Labs Inc is doing too good a job of attracting the limelight . |
| 23 | If the upholstery is still in too good a condition to change , add plain coloured cushions in one of the colours taken from a patterned fabric or patterned ones if the upholstery is plain . |
| 24 | It was too good a place to miss out on . |
| 25 | This was too good a thing to be distracted from by pique . |
| 26 | As the movies desperately sought new audiences we should not underestimate the part played by a fear that mass working-class patronage was just too good a thing to last . |
| 27 | As Robert Myers , Grumman 's laconic president , says now : ‘ I guess that sale was n't too good a move from the State Department 's standpoint . ’ |
| 28 | At the moment , Aubrey says she 's having far too good a time to want to settle down . ’ |
| 29 | I 'm having too good a time . ’ |
| 30 | Mary-Claude was in Lebanon with Sarah having too good a time with her family for him to wish to cut it short . |