Example sentences of "[modal v] be a [adv] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean , Sharp 's playing well wide left ; move Macca inside him ; and Rocky inside Strachan should be a pretty good mid-filed line up . |
| 2 | You must be a deceptively good listener . ’ |
| 3 | So it must be a really good chance . |
| 4 | Garry must be a much better lover than I would have thought him , or is it the legacy his godfather has left him that tempts you ? ’ |
| 5 | Second , the basis of the moral argument is that there must be a very good reason not to intervene . |
| 6 | and so provided that there 's proper procedures , I mean I do n't suppose the commission wanted to actually act as a , a review body for every person excluded from the market in Europe , and so they said well one 's got to have a certain faith in the national courts as being an independent review , and such as that person is excluded from the market there must be a very good reason and he was an a competitor |
| 7 | So everybody knew that she must be an extra good child . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ That might be a fairly good , reasonable , voluntary way forward . |
| 9 | ‘ I think that might be a very good thing , ’ she replied , ‘ This … this thing that has happened to us is unnatural and wrong . |
| 10 | That might be an amazingly good idea . |
| 11 | that 's right , that 'll be a much better system to work |
| 12 | She 'll be a far better mother than you 're capable of being . ’ |
| 13 | He was in fact an excellent schoolboy quarter-miler ( thus proving another old adage of mine , that if you were very good in your youth you 'll be a very good Vet , no matter that 30 years may have passed since you last pulled on running shoes ) . |
| 14 | And er he was interviewed by the Appointments Committee , and erm I think he 'll be a very good appointment . |
| 15 | Well , we certainly ought to try , and if we ca n't then there 'll be a very good case for generous compensation out of the secret funds . ’ |
| 16 | If he turns out to be half as good as David then he 'll be a very good batsman indeed . ’ |
| 17 | It could be a damn good holiday . |
| 18 | ‘ Wait just a minute , ’ Meg said as Hari moved towards the door , ‘ next week , my friend Benny the Clown is appearing here in Swansea , he wears these enormous shoes for his act , he could be a very good customer for you . ’ |
| 19 | Er at this point Douglas said er he thought it 'd be a jolly good idea if they dropped a few of these new bombs that they 'd discovered at Hiroshima and Nagasaki er on these slit eyed people and that would really show them who was in control of the world er now this , as you might expect , caused something of a problem to President Truman . |
| 20 | My god , though — this 'd be a pretty good scene . |
| 21 | If they could get it together they 'd be a much better team . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ There may be a perfectly good reason why he should n't be selected , but logic to him suggests otherwise . |
| 23 | White may be a very good player and Wilko could have ‘ fancied him ’ , but Rocky should not have been allowed to go in the opposite direction , and as for the ‘ Cantona thing ’ I think that decision will haunt Wilkinson to the grave . |
| 24 | It certainly may not be , it may be a very good artificial you see |
| 25 | Yes , and he 's trying to sort of to put a erm a picture in your mind of , of these er er specific things and here is one , here is one , they 're not all like that , however I think th this may be a very good way of er of getting the whole lot overthrown , he may be erm I mean how do you , how do you define these things ? |
| 26 | If you have a conservatory area behind your kitchen , this may be an even better location for the tray , since here it will be close to an outer door . |
| 27 | If you were in my ward , the first thing you 'd get would be a jolly good haircut . |
| 28 | would be a jolly good magistrate . |
| 29 | Perhaps it would be a pretty good discussion trying to decide in which establishment you could learn more . |
| 30 | It has to be said that the world would be a much better place if we just got on and did things instead of waiting for other people to do them on our behalf . |