Example sentences of "good as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became especially good as a one-day containing bowler , playing a big part in his county 's successes , and contributing many useful , if very idiosyncratic , lower middle order runs ; while his Test bowling average was declining , his batting figure was improving all the time , and reached a handy 21 . |
| 2 | When he got called up he was good as the best of them . |
| 3 | Rawls often writes of individuals ' conceptions of the good as if they are their views of the good life for themselves . |
| 4 | Good as a trip to Tenerife , and a fraction of the cost . ’ |
| 5 | What should be remembered is that there exist many things which are both good in themselves and good as an instrument or a means to something else . |
| 6 | ‘ You were jolly good as the witch , ’ said Gillian . |
| 7 | He liked producing plays because he enjoyed creative work , and he was good as a leader and director . |
| 8 | On performance though , good as the new one is , I remain firmly attached to the TER , which is more romantically conceived , and captures much better the work 's operetta style . |
| 9 | A major difficulty arises when fossil species disappear for good as the physical environment , over millions of years , inevitably changes . |
| 10 | I tried the clean channel ( channel 1 ) first and found that , good as its word , it remained clean , surviving all I could throw at it . |
| 11 | Anything 's only as good as the foundation it 's built on . |
| 12 | Active methods of treatment for venous ulcers do work , but the ‘ Hawthorn ’ effect must be remembered , in that part of any improvement is due to the change as much as the method , or ‘ a change is a s good as a rest ’ . |
| 13 | It is perhaps fair to say that while the balances are maintained , we are on the whole more conscious of evil as an objective power and of good as a subjective impulse ; Mordor and ‘ the Shadow ’ are nearer and more visible than the Valar or ‘ luck ’ . |
| 14 | The pluses are that Mr Fry 's antiques-packed rooms give off a suitably mouldering , claustrophobic air , Staunton is very good as an over-protective mother who keeps haring off to ring the babysitter , all concerned do seem to know each other very well and it 's all very pleasant , untaxing and time passes jauntily enough . |
| 15 | ‘ Damage to coastal defences is estimated at a little under £2 million and this will be made good as a matter of urgency . |
| 16 | Good as an ice box , this . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ I 'm not sure I 'm all that good as a beacon , sir . |
| 18 | Other materials have to be utilized , and although not quite so good as the old fish manure , it is still way out in a class of its own . |
| 19 | The problem was that Kier had friends in the town council and , as Campbell pointed out , ‘ my eneemys here have wrote to My Lord Grange ; if the man is sett at liberty I begg it may be by y[ou]r interest , and that you 'll be so good as write me so , for it will do me service in this place ’ . |
| 20 | We may observe in passing that while it seems obvious enough in the abstract that we should distinguish between what is good in itself and what is good as a means , more is at stake here than conceptual clarity . |
| 21 | It is a thumping big read , but at £17.99 in hardcover it is obviously going to be good as a £4.99 paperback . |
| 22 | All right , my guess is good as theirs , I 'll write |
| 23 | ‘ You sound as though you think the travellers are all good as gold if you 're just a bit nice to them . ’ |
| 24 | Quickly stir fried long beans and silk squash make this a unique dish , good as a vegetarian main course or with meat . |
| 25 | He might be good as a gear-test , |
| 26 | It gets more and more ballooned out and it just ca It gets less and less and less good as a pump . |
| 27 | ‘ It was n't much good as a sanctuary , either , ’ Brenner said with an odd cackle . |
| 28 | Throwing the pillow back , her aim not nearly so good as his , she sighed . |
| 29 | Yes , it was so good as that . |
| 30 | We thought that the site over at the station centre would be good as a shop outlet and as office space for recycling , and that the site behind it would be a good place to keep all the stuff until it can actually be recycled , erm , so we identified the site to start with , then we started looking at what 's actually possible as op opposed to desirable . |