Example sentences of "would [be] [adv] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If Gay came , she would be indoors a good deal , and would be company for Susan while Breeze the Breadwinner was out . |
| 2 | ‘ Michel wrote to me sometime ago — not from Paris– that they would be away a good deal longer than they originally planned , complications having arisen . |
| 3 | So in some states it 's sixteen , in some states it 's eighteen , in some states twenty one er and Reagan thought it would be quite a good idea if they had uniformity across America er in which , you know , that they would raise the drinking age to twenty one er and this would then er reduce the incidence of teenage drunk driving and if you 've ever been in an American bar you will know you 're very often funnily enough they do n't ask me so much these days but you 're very often asked to prove your age , you know , er and you have to produce your driver 's licence and all the rest of it erm and so he increasing |
| 4 | I think that would be quite a good subject . |
| 5 | ‘ It does n't seem to occur to anyone that all these people going on about UFOs and the general hilarity they cause would be quite a good disguise for the government if it did want to cover up weapons testing . ’ |
| 6 | Er with reference to the great pestilence er makes me think of the original great pestilence , the Black Death and of course er contaminated individuals be put in a pest house far away from places of habitation but they can contaminate others which one ca n't help thinking that it would be quite a good policy has commissioned . |
| 7 | On the corner I think would be perhaps a good idea , do you think ? |