Example sentences of "is good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even school-teaching Graham , who is meant to be amusingly boring , is good with words , in one of the ways that teachers sometimes are . |
| 2 | These statements are from The Wrench , where Faussone is good at his job and Levi is good at getting this across . |
| 3 | These statements are from The Wrench , where Faussone is good at his job and Levi is good at getting this across . |
| 4 | There is good Scots , too , in The Book of Sandy Stewart , which contrasts poignantly with the Book of Patrick Doyle . |
| 5 | I mean , sight reading is another thing and not everyone is good at that , but it helps if you are . |
| 6 | Perhaps doing Shakespeare spoils you for that , but I think having a text that is good is important . |
| 7 | Warmth is good . |
| 8 | Realism is good . |
| 9 | It is good fun , too , for branches organise regular beer festivals and brewery visits . |
| 10 | ‘ No , but we live at a sort of peace with each other , which is good . ’ |
| 11 | After landing , the stick should be moved slowly right back to increase the tail load , unless there is good reason to deliberately steer the glider to one side . |
| 12 | They often think that if their flying is good enough , it is safe for them to press on in any weather conditions . |
| 13 | Never mind , walking is good exercise too . |
| 14 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 15 | He participates enthusiastically in all the activities and is good in all of them . |
| 16 | Sometimes it 's No news is good news . |
| 17 | No news is good news . |
| 18 | I always say , no news is good news . |
| 19 | Their argument is that it is good for the tournament , a s well as the players concerned , if as many as possible of the higher ranked competitors survive the early rounds . |
| 20 | It is good psychologically to look back and see just how much you have improved both in terms of strength and physique . |
| 21 | The time limit for making claims is three months ( or twelve months if there is good reason for the delay ) . |
| 22 | The quality is good enough to enable the 158s to replace the Mark 3 push-pull trains in Scotland as well as the Mark 2s . |
| 23 | While cladding can be fixed directly to existing masonry walls , it is good practice to cover them with waterproof building paper first to prevent any moisture that gets behind the cladding from penetrating the wall itself . |
| 24 | At one level , as in all picturings of God 's rule and man 's free will , there is nothing for Porfiry to do ; he just has to sit and wait , which he is good at . |
| 25 | And at another level he has to know and play every trick of the detective 's trade , which he is good at too . |
| 26 | In practice , binary oppositions are very liable to favour one term at the expense of the other , and there can be no doubt that Bakhtin preferred the dialogic to the monologic ( a bias that is evident in everyday English , where to engage in dialogue is good , and to utter a monologue is rather bad ) . |
| 27 | This points to Eleanor of Provence , Edward 's mother and consort of Henry III , whose reputation is as bad as that of Eleanor of Castile is good — though not for David Gordon , who seems to think that because she 's said to be ‘ of Provence ’ , this puts her above suspicion . |
| 28 | Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for . |
| 29 | On the other hand , when in the ruined court of Eblis the bees find ‘ wild grass for their pleasure ’ , that is good too . |
| 30 | Armed with Lipton 's motto — ‘ Good architecture is good business ’ — they employ a wide range of architects , both established and up-and-coming , commonly thought of as ‘ good ’ . |