Example sentences of "[was/were] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Clark said : ‘ We thought about standing in the way of these bulldozers but the bees were a better idea . ’ |
| 2 | Her teeth were a better shape than mine , only tobacco-stained . |
| 3 | Well we were a better er service , they were a better ser I 'm not saying that I think so , I know they were a better service don does n't does n they 're not quite proof , there were in an tramcar Edinburgh Corporation tramcars were running , they were running at a , a , every year a profit . |
| 4 | Not that home heating fuels were a better option . |
| 5 | Although drummer Richie Hayward powered them through Blow Wind , Blow Wind , and the evergreen Key to the Highway , I began to think that Keith Richards ' X-Pensive Winos were a better band . |
| 6 | Then he started getting Girls from Blackpool , they were a better class . |
| 7 | If she were a good spit and-polish balabosteh like her Aunt Minna , where would I be now ? |
| 8 | And you were a good King . ’ |
| 9 | But I was the Annie character — you know — if you were a good girl you 'd be rewarded , and it is n't nice to make a fuss . ’ |
| 10 | Vic said he thought two camps were a good idea because there would have been two originally and it would psychologically prepare the Indians for playing their ancestors , which I said was just a rationalisation of elitism . |
| 11 | That 's what you want , a decent endowment , it takes out all the fluctuations , and er the they 've big reserves , and of course the minute the endowment starts to look a bit poorer , it 's switch back to P E Ps , course I 've always said that P E Ps were a good idea , and the charges are much better now than they were , and I 'm just thinking of the poor chap that 's read the paper two years ago , over his tea and toast on a Sunday and thought mhm good idea , I 'll take an endowment , and two years later it 's the same person saying aha , no , pretty bad news an endowment . |
| 12 | Well erm you see although I learned shorthand and typing it was better money and that was the reason I had to do it , I 've passed my exams in shorthand but er probably there were n't enough offices then to employ a good many clerks , but erm they er it was a very big fellow who used to ring the bell and the bell was on the outside , he was named Tom but I ca n't for the life of me think erm what his other name was but , erm it used to put the fear through us I can tell you if we were around the corner and we heard that bell ringing but erm they , they were a good firm to work for and , but they were strict but everywhere was strict in those days , we had to accept it but it was a long long hours , but erm they knew I had some , I , I enjoyed it and I 'd go back again only I 'm too old . |
| 13 | Up against us were a good pair who had previously given us a drubbing . |
| 14 | ‘ You were a good friend to me . ’ |
| 15 | He had chosen the location deliberately , assuring Miles that it was a very promising swim , that the swirlings of the current denoted barbel pits and that the overhanging trees were a good lie for large pike . |
| 16 | The tutors contacted felt that the Access students compared favourably to other groups of students and believed that the Access courses were a good preparation for their course . |
| 17 | Forward planning and setting objectives were a good way to focus attention . |
| 18 | But they were a good deal more important at a symbolic level . |
| 19 | Whether or not the 19705 may be considered relatively uninhibited in its sexual atmosphere , there is no doubt that the earlier years of the twentieth century were a good deal more inhibited . |
| 20 | A possible source of such a field is an internal lunar dipole source , since vanished , though other possible sources are the Earth 's field and the Sun 's field if they were a good deal stronger in the past than they are today . |
| 21 | It was an age of militarism , though not yet of popular militarism ; its wars and battles were a good deal more than the courtly and rather ineffective rituals which some historians have tended to imagine . |
| 22 | There were a good number of these , the men and women solemn in their Sunday best , although the young people , and there were plenty of those , too , were surprisingly casual , wearing jeans and bright sweaters under their black leather jackets ; casual and cheerful , too , in their attitude as they entered the church , calling greetings , and making good-natured jokes , much to Omi 's disapproval . |
| 23 | Ivy remarked : ‘ Rose Macaulay asked me if I were a good walker and I said I was . |
| 24 | Oh yes , as they were filming at the Lyceum last week they were , it were a good programme I can tell you |
| 25 | well it was n't in those days that were a good programme on , on Court today was n't it ? |
| 26 | They were a good team , all right . |
| 27 | Spey Valley Rotary Club were a good team and we knew we would have our work cut-out . |
| 28 | You were a good soldier , Gosse . |
| 29 | Yeah , but you do it , it were a good time though . |
| 30 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |