Example sentences of "[be] [that] [pron] [be] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | In music , the quantitative usage ( ‘ well favoured ’ ) seems to have come to the fore in the eighteenth century — alongside the development of a ( bourgeois ) commercial market in musical products ; and when , in the first half of the nineteenth century , songs for the bourgeois market ( including what we would now call ‘ drawing-room ballads ’ ) were described as ‘ popular songs ’ , the intended implication seems to have been that they were good ( that is , well liked by those whose opinion counted ) . |
| 2 | It may well be that there are good reasons for following customary practices or for rejecting them in favour of new ones , but teachers ought to know what these reasons are , for it is this knowledge which provides for adaptability , the alternative realization of principles through techniques appropriate to different instructional settings . |
| 3 | On the other hand , the plus side of that may be that you are good at working alone without constant supervision . |
| 4 | It is small wonder that Dr Underwood finds it a ‘ little disconcerting ’ as the inference of the inquiry , as far as it has gone at present , would appear to be that it is better for a child to stay in East London sleeping irregular hours in ill ventilated shelters and eating fish and chips than to have fresh air conditions in one of our Camps with regular hours of sleep and plenty of well prepared wholesome food ( in which vegetables fresh from the garden play a large part ) forming a diet balanced in accordance with the best advice obtainable from the Board of Education and others … |
| 5 | When I spoke to some of these women alone much later I asked them why Asian women often reacted like this ; their answers were that it was good for a man 's Izzat . |
| 6 | ‘ All I know is that we are good enough to be up there at the end of the season . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ What comes through strongly is that we are good at communicating in one direction — the Courtaulds message is getting across , ’ said , deputy director of Human Resources . |
| 8 | The Civil Service view is that what is best for the country is a continuation of the centrist and consensual policies that have been developed and sold to party politicians over many years . |
| 9 | The service conception establishes that the point of having authorities is that they are better at complying with the dependent reasons . |
| 10 | What seems indisputable , however , is that there are good grounds for attempting a separation of meaning and grammar . |
| 11 | All I know is that there are better people in , that , are more intelligent people that are better informed about than me or you and they deemed it that we 've got something to fear against and I 'm willing to take that . |
| 12 | The conventional wisdom on energy policy is that it is better not to have one . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The common-sense view of sleep is that it is good for you , providing an opportunity for recovery from fatigue , is essential for growth , and crucial in cure from illness . |
| 15 | ‘ Not really because it seems to do any good but just because the thinking is that it 's better for him than other commercial products , ’ says Kathleen . |
| 16 | But , but they 're saying that , ooh apart from I think the what they 're really saying is that it 's better to wait till in |
| 17 | All that one can say is that he was better than the current Labour party leader . |
| 18 | One helpful aspect of the case was that there were good up-to-date photographs of the man . |
| 19 | The critical consensus about The Sycamore Tree was that it is good when it is light and witty but that it ‘ sinks under a mass of elaboration ’ ( Allen 1958:500 ) , and that Brooke-Rose 's effort to add depth to her characters succeeded only in getting them ‘ thoroughly bogged down ’ ( TLS 1958:557 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ My feeling — and Pam ( Ma Larkin ) , David ( Pa ) and Phillip ( Charley ) agreed — was that it was better to do four episodes really well than six halfheartedly . |
| 21 | Ace had actually understood some time ago , but if there was one lesson that she would take away gladly from her time with the Doctor , it was that it was better to have people underestimate your abilities than overestimate them . |