Example sentences of "to be a good " in BNC.
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| 31 | With the possible exception of Mrs Major , who has to struggle not to look cheerful at the mention of leaving 10 Downing Street , and Sir Denis Thatcher ( ’ I 'm so bloody glad we 're not doing it this time ’ ) , every good political consort must learn how to be a good loser . |
| 32 | She used to be a good cunt , now she was a dressful of dead fishmeat . |
| 33 | Situated only five minutes from the nearest beach and about the same from the nightlife of the harbour , the Maria proves to be a good value choice for your Cretan holiday . |
| 34 | John was proving to be a good friend as well as brother-in-law . |
| 35 | Franca , said to be a good cook , was not a good cook , just an ingenious cook . |
| 36 | He might well have settled to be a good chief for the clan that you say you 're so concerned for , Eachuinn Maclean . |
| 37 | To be successful in a round-robin tournament , therefore , a strategy has to be a good competitor against all the other strategies that people happen to have submitted . |
| 38 | That 's got to be a good thing . ’ |
| 39 | Still , I 'd always tried hard to be a good golfer , and playing off three handicap I knew would stand me in good stead . |
| 40 | It was not that he was obviously going to be a good priest . |
| 41 | It was the Mataura that had brought them from Scotland , and it had to be a good omen . |
| 42 | It imposes on us the belief that it is wrong to steal or to commit murder — and that has to be a good thing . |
| 43 | Chapman valued good sportsmanship highly , and still liked to be a good sport himself . |
| 44 | Once it is understood that the symptoms of disease are actually a good thing in that they are the highly characteristic outward indication of the healing and balancing process that is going on inside each individual person , then to give a medicine that is capable of mimicking and bringing about that same process suddenly seems to be a good idea ; both totally reasonable and logical . |
| 45 | The questions can be listed in rough under the headings ( some people put each question on a card to begin with ) and then they can be moved about so as to produce what seems to be a good ‘ flow ’ for the interview . |
| 46 | Following the case of Re Beecham Group Ltd 's Application there seems to be a good chance of any restriction contained in a s.52 agreement being modified or discharged on application ; the Tribunal in that case modifying a restriction contained in a s.52 agreement to allow development , on the basis that the local authority would suffer no injury if the restriction was modified . |
| 47 | It is n't easy in practice to be a good carer . ’ |
| 48 | Demonstrations might prove to be a good way of teaching small groups of about five or six students the use of various tools used for information retrieval . |
| 49 | It was going to be a good day . |
| 50 | This happens to be a good strategy for a side with material superiors , and computers have won quite a lot of games with this strategy . |
| 51 | Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be . |
| 52 | This can be assumed , quite fairly , to be the beginning of the acknowledgement of the rights of ownership , generally agreed to be a good thing when protected from definable abuse . |
| 53 | There are many things that I can do now , but could n't do as a young man , which contradicts the notion that in order to be a good instrumentalist you have to acquire a comprehensive technique i your teens . |
| 54 | Rather than all the rare qualities discussed , the person serving young people in the latter part of the century needs to be able to work in a no-nonsense way with young people , to be a good manager prepared to fight for a fair share of the funds , to ensure that staff are able to devote a generous amount of time to users of the services in groups and as individuals , and to ensure that there is a good stock of books and other materials to explore . |
| 55 | Felicity was to take up dancing as a hobby , not as a profession ; she was to learn to be a good bridge player and to wear her clothes well . |
| 56 | I made a silent vow : ‘ Mum , if you will please , do n't die … never leave us … then I promise , from my heart , to be a good boy always . |
| 57 | It may well have related to his envy of the nursing pair and the demand he experienced to be a good father . |
| 58 | ‘ A country where a policeman smiled had to be a good place to settle . ’ |
| 59 | For government regulation to be a good move there needs to be confirmation that the drug is harmless , and there is the ‘ thinend-of-the-wedge ’ argument — that it will break the taboo surrounding other more noxious substances . |
| 60 | All in all , LTK is still the most playable of the Bond games and could prove to be a good addition to anybody 's software collection . |