Example sentences of "to be [adv] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | You 're going to be incredibly good at it — I can tell . |
| 2 | He is so anxious about being accepted that he is trying to be extra good and even perfect . ’ |
| 3 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 4 | A classic and set to be equally good on the NES . |
| 5 | It 's on at the Lyceum and is supposed to be frightfully good . |
| 6 | For once , the product had turned out to be even better than the advert . |
| 7 | The present tax year is expected to be even better — experts predict a net inflow of £3 billion and a £5 billion contribution to government funds in 1992–93 . |
| 8 | Turkey was an amazing success for Club 18–30 in £89 — and it 's going to be even better in ‘ 00 . |
| 9 | Yet other varieties happen to find themselves in possession of new tricks : they turn out to be even better self-replicators than their predecessors and contemporaries . |
| 10 | But it turned out to be even better than the ads said . |
| 11 | Future issues promise to be even better . |
| 12 | Citalia is determined that Summer 1992 is going to be even better value than ever before . |
| 13 | This does n't mean that they could n't be completely redesigned to be even better . |
| 14 | ‘ And Gabby turned out to be particularly good , which saved him from having to do the usual terrible , crap jobs that the Hawaiians had to do , and he ended up playing for a living in just about every joint in Hawaii — and there were lots of them in those days , because live music was a big thing . |
| 15 | TAC SPELLS TRANSPARENCY IN ACTION An old-style committee has proved to be particularly good at meeting the requirements of openness and accountability |
| 16 | ‘ We expect to be particularly good business for Stockton . |
| 17 | Anyway , the boat fishing turned out to be surprisingly good . |
| 18 | ‘ I do n't expect things to be just good when you do them , however . |
| 19 | The next morning Chola seemed to be slightly better but Sigarup , if anything , was worse . |
| 20 | The liver is the one organ in the abdomen in which MRI has been shown to be slightly better than computed tomography in the detection of focal lesions . |
| 21 | But the ballet itself was shaping well ‘ and turns out to be altogether better technically than Soldier 's Tale ’ . |
| 22 | Are not the Government missing an opportunity to be both good Europeans and good environmentalists at the same time ? |
| 23 | But in a world where observing the social decencies passes unnoticed , how much incentive is there to be ordinarily good ? |
| 24 | In fact both treatments would work even if one were to be marginally better . |
| 25 | The fact is , as we shall see , that different media do tend to be rather better for different things — you can not get a lot of information into a 30-second TV commercial , for example . |
| 26 | A foreign accent is an unknown quantity ; you have to be rather good at languages to tell whether it 's common or not , and most of Nigel 's acquaintances did n't speak any other language well . |
| 27 | ‘ I do rather a lot of amateur acting , you know , and I 'm supposed to be rather good at accents . ’ |
| 28 | Much to Oliver 's annoyance they turned out to be rather good at it . |
| 29 | But he was very much afraid she was going to be rather good in Luxembourg — it was a role not unlike that of Countess Maritza . |
| 30 | He used to be pretty good , as I remember . ’ |