Example sentences of "have [verb] [prep] be good " in BNC.

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1 This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ : the way she moves has got to be good news , ca n't gel loose till I feel the juice — suck and spread , bitch , yeah bounce for me baby …
2 You know , I mean we revert a lot of trade here to next day , so the quality of service has got to be good or we lose them .
3 Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved .
4 Humbly they had promised to be good .
5 I 'm black and I 've got to be better than the next applicant , but I do n't let it hold me back .
6 You 've got to be better than the other poor sod .
7 It 's like a mini-performance ; you 've got to be good to maintain your cred , but what do you play ?
8 They 're the only Wren crew in the flotilla , so they 've got to be good . ’
9 Sir Graham , who is a member of ACOST , said Britain had proved to be good at increasing the knowledge base but weak at developing the technological benefits .
10 I had ceased to be good at the convent , and now I also ceased to be either healthy or clever .
11 She had tried to be better than someone else and ended up proving herself even worse .
12 When I produce the new album , it 's got to be good . ’
13 It 's a spanner in the works , and that 's got to be good news . ’
14 But we found we were sawing a lot of stuff up , was no good for the slate making , you know it it 's got to be good for slate making , a lot of veins and lots of muck in 'em .
15 It 's got to be better than this .
16 It 's got to be better the scrap metal , or journalism .
17 ‘ It 's got to be better than trying to abseil down the outside .
18 Where as innovators say that 's boring , er there 's got to be better ways of doing it you see .
19 Well it 's got to be better than being stuck in a classroom … art students from Abingdon took to the Downs for their latest project …
20 Anybody 's got to be better than Jimmy Young .
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