Example sentences of "[noun pl] to be good " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is now a considerable literature on the public schools , none of which unfortunately comes to grips with what seems , with respect to the subject of this book , to be perhaps the central issue : the fact that for a hundred years , from the middle of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth , the British governing classes were educated in an atmosphere which combined the toleration of a merciless brutality with perpetual exhortations to be good . |
| 2 | Matilda longed for her parents to be good and loving and understanding and honourable and intelligent . |
| 3 | Jessup considered the morale of South Korean troops to be good but he was struck by the appreciation of the strength of the North Korean forces : the resources of the North Koreans were not underestimated by South Korean officers . |
| 4 | Changes in social and commercial conditions , and changes in the moral values of the community , mean that the Courts will not always find the same reasons for the enforcement of promises to be good today as their forbears did ; equally it is likely that they will often find good reasons for the enforcement of promises where their predecessors did not . |
| 5 | It 's not enough for British products to be good value in terms of price — they must also match the standards of products from other countries in both performance and reliability . |
| 6 | If video killed the radio star , then the continued survival of radio drama must suggest something , like radio drama does n't need stars to be good . |
| 7 | We 'll be married in the Catholic Church , and I 'll teach all our children to be good Catholics . |
| 8 | It 's teaching children to be good conservationists . |