Example sentences of "[noun sg] is [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Madeira sponge is a good choice for many cakes as it is moist and tasty , yet firm and compact enough for cutting and shaping . |
| 2 | If there is no response after three or four pills then either the prescription is wrong or the remedy is no good and has lost its potency for some reason . |
| 3 | Differential association is a good illustration of these two contradictory tendencies . |
| 4 | In a movie you 've got to have good and bad : in Backdraft the fire brigade is the good and the fire is the bad it even has a kind of growling sound . ’ |
| 5 | Well you see the , the , the great Soviet experiment is a good example is n't it of , of a whole civilization was based on a o o on a kind of great social experiment was based on ultimately on erm unsound principles and then a part of the scenes . |
| 6 | Recommendation is the best advertising for any company , so ask around . |
| 7 | Keith Richards , a senior lawyer with the Consumers ' Association , believes personal recommendation is the best way to guarantee good value . |
| 8 | The President is the best magician of them all . |
| 9 | The 20–25 litre drum discharging through a controlled dispenser is a better option . |
| 10 | That episode is a good example of another of the programme 's secrets of success , packing so many different elements into half-an-hour . |
| 11 | However , now that it has been decided that a Sunday game of 50 overs per side is a better idea ‘ for cricket ’ , many are already beginning to rue the demise of the 40-overs game . |
| 12 | ‘ The current side is the best team I 've had in my five years here . |
| 13 | Crewe as a previous reply rightly said are running away with the 3rd division , so a 3–1 defeat is a good result considering the mauling some other Premiership clubs got from the likes of Peterborough and Stockport . |
| 14 | Some say that The Mercy Seat is the best thing Cave has done for five years , since Mutiny in Heaven . |
| 15 | Irony is a good example of this exploitation and the difficulties such usages pose for a pragmatic theory based on appropriateness , for ironies take their effect and their communicative import , and thus their appropriateness , precisely from their inappropriateness . |
| 16 | ‘ But surely , ’ I came back , rather pleased with myself , ‘ a prosaic mind is the best judge of prose ? ’ |
| 17 | The Empire 's artillery is the best in the world and its manufacture and maintenance are controlled by the Emperor himself . |
| 18 | I 'm sure you feel as I do that openness is the best policy in these affairs . |
| 19 | We hope that as your Medau News — with its views , information and diary of events — comes through your letter box this September , you will agree that by receiving it by direct mail is a better system than sharing a few copies round from class member to class member . |
| 20 | A peek in the waste containers at the end of the lunch break is a good indicator of what should n't appear on the menu in future . |
| 21 | recognition that the recipient is the best person to decide what information is appropriate to himself . |
| 22 | Therefore it is suggested that the physical search is the best way to be sure that the premises are vacated . |
| 23 | And when you look at the price of hiring thirty seconds of advertisement time on television and organising a mass demonstration with some gratuitous violence which will get thirty seconds in a T V news broadcast , erm then I think the cost-efficiency graph shows that the erm violent demonstration is the better way , in those terms . |
| 24 | Others have to be left until the weather improves and/or we have some more time ; even so , spring is a good time to rethink your routine and perhaps make next winter easier to get through . |
| 25 | I always am — with me bronze is no good , silver is no good , gold is all . |
| 26 | Well-designed signs are expensive , but this expense is a good investment in that the signs will last a long time and help overcome the physical barriers of the library . |
| 27 | Most people would agree that horizontal equity is a good thing . |
| 28 | As far as we 're concerned , cycling is the best way to see the countryside and keep fit at the same time . ’ |
| 29 | Prediction is a good scientific test of any quantified theory . |
| 30 | It is almost impossible to form a coalition of interests to get something changed in a statutory instrument or an order , so if there is broad agreement that an instrument is a good idea , one must either take it all or have nothing to do with it . |