Example sentences of "[that] [pers pn] is good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I honestly believe that she is good enough to win the King George and the Arc next year . ’ |
| 2 | It has been said that it is best not to know too much about salami and other sausages , in the same way that ignorance about haggis aids its enjoyment and easy digestion . |
| 3 | * I always think that it is best to pour the tea onto milk in the cup as this distributes the milk more evenly — it also seems to produce a better colour . |
| 4 | The Fallacy of Carpe Diem is a falsely reasoned argument which concludes that it is best to enjoy the momentary pleasure , and have no thought for the consequences it may bring . |
| 5 | This clearly covers such a vast range of possibilities that it is best to break verbal behaviour down into a number of categories and concentrate on some specifics . |
| 6 | ‘ He feels the same as us , that it is best not to sedate her , but let her grief come out now , ’ she said . |
| 7 | However , I would add that it is best for you to experiment with your paper stretching technique . |
| 8 | In addition , to argue with able , patriotic , experienced men is tiring and some ministers have found that it is best to conserve their energies for major issues . |
| 9 | However , we suggested that this point can be met substantially by the traditional argument about economic policy making , that it is best to assign separate instruments to different targets . |
| 10 | Keynesians argue that it is best to focus on controlling interest rates , and to adjust money supply to whatever level is necessary to meet the target interest rate . |
| 11 | Many writers have said that English word stress is so difficult to predict that it is best to treat stress placement as a property of the individual word , to be learned when the word itself is learned . |
| 12 | I would say that it is better in many respects than it was ’ . |
| 13 | * I always think that it is better to make a fresh pot of tea than to top up the old pot . |
| 14 | Any decent reform of this nonsense has to start with a firm recognition that it is better to take money from taxpayers than from consumers . |
| 15 | The conventional wisdom on energy policy is that it is better not to have one . |
| 16 | There are reasons showing that it is better to require that the tax due shall be paid either in quarterly or in monthly payments . |
| 17 | It may mislead people into obeying the law where , but for their consent , it would have been clear to them that it is better to disobey . |
| 18 | In the belief that it is better to abuse himself than others , he gets his kicks from watching his own videotaped interviews with women about their sexual preferences . |
| 19 | My point is , that it is better to be prudent than happy . |
| 20 | Trial and error is the best way to learn the timing , and most people discover that it is better to release sooner rather than later . |
| 21 | If you are still not sure , just remember that it is better to have too many books than too few . |
| 22 | However , I take the view that it is better if the parents , friends and older children become involved and take an active part . |
| 23 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 24 | In defence of the charges , David Moffat , fund manager of Eagle Star European ( 071–929 1111 ) , agrees that unit trusts are more expensive to buy but argues that with investment trusts there are dealing charges on purchase and sale , and that it is better to pay a percentage at the beginning when the fund is worth less than on redemption when , hopefully , it should be worth substantially more ! |
| 25 | While some workers believe that the best place for a child is within a family , and that it is better for a child to be placed transracially than to have no family , anxiety is increasing about the outcome of transracial placements . |
| 26 | This has the implication that it is better to produce a sufficiently large population with low average happiness than a smaller one with high average happiness , since that way ( with a sufficiently large population ) the ‘ amount ’ of happiness will be larger . |
| 27 | That 's why some people think that communication is needed — to convince us that it is better to ‘ have ’ and not to ‘ be ’ ; that happiness is to possess , to compete and to succeed no matter how . |
| 28 | That 's why some people think that communication is needed — to convince us that it is better to ‘ have ’ and not to ‘ be ’ ; that happiness is to possess , to compete and to succeed no matter how . |
| 29 | You now explain to them that it is better thought of as an object with certain transformation properties under rotations . |
| 30 | It seems to be assumed by many advertisers that this sort of thing makes it simpler for the ( presumably illiterate ) public to take in , but I have never seen any evidence whatever to prove that it is better than , or even as good as , writing in slightly more formal English . |