Example sentences of "good to be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too good to be true ! |
| 2 | Even his extraordinarily fecund language struggled to reassert the recollection : ‘ the ideal couple , ’ ‘ the beautiful inspiration , ’ ‘ illusion and reality , ’ ( by which he meant that it was simply too good to be true ; too perfect to last — a forbidding afterthought ) . |
| 3 | They are too good to be forgotten , or some of them are . |
| 4 | Its villages look too good to be true . |
| 5 | It was good to be sitting down with a family for dinner even though I did n't understand everything the Frenchman and his wife were talking about . |
| 6 | It is n't too good to be true though — your admission fee just gets you in there — all activities cost extra . |
| 7 | Too good to be pigeonholed under ‘ New Country . ’ |
| 8 | DAVID INSHAW 'S painting of ‘ The Cricket Game ’ in the lazy valley of the River Bride might make the fat green chalk hills around look too good to be true . |
| 9 | That sounds too good to be true . |
| 10 | And the still , small voice which persisted in whispering ‘ too good to be true ’ gradually , very gradually , became fainter . |
| 11 | She 'd be good to be seen with and she had a sense of humour . |
| 12 | It would be good to be greeted as you walked along by smiling creatures lying along the pavements . |
| 13 | ‘ You should have known it was too good to be true ! ’ |
| 14 | Commander Whitehead , a jovial , dashing , red-bearded figure with a Homburg and a briefcase , cheerfully splashing tonic water about on convivial occasions , looked too good to be true . |
| 15 | Ledeen , with no trace of irony , thought him ‘ altogether too good to be true … he magically appears … |
| 16 | It was good to be in O'Brien 's Hotel , and to meet the proprietor Maureen O'Sullivan , her tall soft-spoken brother and their Kerry Blue terrier once more . |
| 17 | Was there a cover-up wonders VChristy Campbell , or is the story just too good to be left alone ? |
| 18 | International : Sweet news that is too good to be true |
| 19 | But it has turned out that the theory is as it sounds — too good to be true . |
| 20 | It was too good to be true . |
| 21 | It was too good to be true . |
| 22 | One school of thought argued that he was too good to be true and his information was deliberately fed to the West by a faction within the Kremlin who opposed Khrushchev 's plan to send missiles to Cuba . |
| 23 | This particular comment was too good to be kept secret and so did the rounds of Parisian society , but in general what everyone remembered about these gala occasions was the sheer splendour of it all , to which the guests themselves contributed by the richness of their uniforms or , in the case of civilians , the elegance of the men and the style of the women . |
| 24 | Still , it was good to be back . |
| 25 | Sounds too good to be true ? |
| 26 | You will feel it 's good to be alive whatever the weather . |
| 27 | Much as I had enjoyed ‘ my Soviet adventure ’ it was good to be back in an English-speaking land again . |
| 28 | In one sense , in a report about ‘ environmental scanning ’ , it would be good to be able to report that those engaged in that activity had solved this problem of making the information that they deliver , directly usable by those to whom it is delivered . |
| 29 | And in spite of cancer , it was good to be important . |
| 30 | I would have come to it all in due course , but it was good to be hastened . |