Example sentences of "being [vb pp] [prep] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Are the periods of overlap being used to good effect ? |
| 2 | Henry also had a go at stopping hops being used in good old English ale . |
| 3 | A total of 103 beds , including a unique ward , are being closed for good because of a shortage of cash . |
| 4 | This is why it is important to accustom the child to being rewarded for good behaviour — punishment is knowing what he or she is missing . |
| 5 | However , since he had served nearly a year in prison whilst awaiting trial he was released on completion of the trial , the sentence being reduced for good conduct . |
| 6 | After an initial period of relative restraint , people return to their former prolixity and the novel ends with ‘ Verbivore ’ being resumed for good . |
| 7 | If recognition sensitivity were directly proportional to the amount of information in a stimulus this would give the obtained results , risky exemplars being associated with good recognition at high risk junctions but with bad recognition at low risk junctions . |
| 8 | That is being taken to good money they say , it was the professional 's choice yesterday the faces were all backing it yesterday . |
| 9 | The electrical forces that were the problem in getting the like-charged hydrogen nuclei together were at least being put to good use in attracting them into the palladium prison . |
| 10 | The only thing that stands between county hall being put to good use is the Labour-controlled Lambeth borough council , which is squandering charge payers ' money on increasingly desperate but unsuccessful attempts to prevent the sale of county hall and its productive use for hotel and residential accommodation . |
| 11 | That amount of daily fresh air and exercise does wonders for health and fitness , so the time taken in travelling to work is actually being put to good use . |
| 12 | And at that point , of course , it swings into the issue of bio-diversity and the threat that destruction of the tropical rainforests , with their genetic richness , will mean more and more plants being lost for good . |