Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] to [be] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Prognosis — not a punishingly long course , but you 'll need to be a good putter to break par ! . |
| 2 | ‘ Good bye , Granny , I 'll try to be a good girl , ’ I sobbed before I stood back for the undertaker to screw down the lid . |
| 3 | Demonstrations might prove to be a good way of teaching small groups of about five or six students the use of various tools used for information retrieval . |
| 4 | But er ther there 'd have to be a good reason for it if , if , if erm the nurses did go out , er afterwards . |
| 5 | It could prove to be a good roll of the dice , for Mr Hughes has also written a book on the mathematics of five-dice games and devised special packaging to exploit the game 's addictiveness by allowing it to be played while it is hanging from the supermarket shelf . |
| 6 | All in all , LTK is still the most playable of the Bond games and could prove to be a good addition to anybody 's software collection . |
| 7 | Now would seem to be a good time to buy PCs , but there could well be a certain amount of hassle before your new wonder computer is up and running properly . |
| 8 | After a meal consisting largely of refined carbohydrate food the blood-sugar level goes up very quickly , which would seem to be a good thing in satisfying the appetite . |
| 9 | Over-zealous expansion may be counter-productive as well as burdensome : a good school may cease to be a good school if its classes are overflowing and its playgrounds full of makeshift accommodation . |
| 10 | If undecided on the diameter you need , remember that tube joiners will be required somewhere or other and the fit will have to be a good one . |
| 11 | When the curvature of space-time becomes large , quantum gravitational effects will become important and the classical theory will cease to be a good description of the universe . |