Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] to be good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Several parts of Ayrshire had rock thought to be good for making curling stones but the rock which was , and still is , most popular is from the islet of Ailsa Craig . |
| 2 | Sea angling off the Donegal coast continues to be good as well . |
| 3 | ‘ What we saw this evening has to be good for British tennis . ’ |
| 4 | Retirement continued to be good … the mind is completely empty of all great thoughts , forward plans , deadlines to be met yesterday rather than today ! |
| 5 | " Because spinach happens to be good for her and because I say so . " |
| 6 | The BM can never be guaranteed to have learned perfectly , so learning continues until the machine 's performance appears to be good enough . |
| 7 | The river and the meadows are really one ecological unit though so the announcement of SSSI status has to be good |
| 8 | ‘ But assuming that the Queen 's health continues to be good , Prince Charles will be well into middle age himself , and will be very aware that history could repeat itself if he puts William through all those ghastly years of waiting that he has gone through . |
| 9 | ( Local GP said to be good ) |
| 10 | ‘ The market tends to be good in times of recession , ’ says Norman Murray , deputy chairman of Morgan Grenfell Development Capital , which launched its fund in 1989 . |
| 11 | A prime requirement for the prevention of chronic complications such as coronary heart disease appears to be good glycaemic control , because many associated abnormalities such as hyperlipidaemia ( Sosenko et al , 1980 ) and perhaps increased platelet aggregation ( Petersen et al , 1977 ) may be improved as the blood glucose level is normalised . |
| 12 | Selling fifty or sixty issues a time proved to be good business . |