Example sentences of "[prep] [be] good " in BNC.
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| 31 | And pornography , to be good , has to be elegant . ’ |
| 32 | But whether artificial intelligence turns out to be good enough for the movie makers is likely to be another matter . |
| 33 | He points out that such a provision bans any invasion of sovereign territory , air space and maritime zones , even where there might seem to be good grounds . |
| 34 | Jane was not popular : in order to be popular , you had to be good at games , and Jane was useless at all of them — and they played everything — netball , rounders , tennis , lacrosse , hockey — even cricket — every afternoon , rain or shine , exams or no exams . |
| 35 | I tried so hard to be good but a lot was expected of children in those days , and I often had nightmares thinking the man would know about me and would come and get me . |
| 36 | If the Christian continuum provided hope for the regenerate individual , it offered a much less satisfying answer to the more general question that had perplexed Job and so many others : why was there so much evil in the world that the Lord had made and seen to be good ? |
| 37 | I took each upon my knee and told them that Mamma is gone to Heaven to God Almighty , and asked them both to promise me that they would try to be good children and follow their mother to that happy place … ‘ |
| 38 | But barley yields seem to be good . |
| 39 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 40 | But in Britain , television , like the cod-liver oil forced down the gagging throats of Welfare-State children , was supposed to be good for you . |
| 41 | People who are used to having responsible jobs at home or in the office and who are known to be good managers and organizers can not understand why suddenly the simplest task seems to be beyond them , and this makes them feel out of control and very unsafe . |
| 42 | And having earned more and kept more we needed to be good housekeepers . |
| 43 | Like Summerhill — a third of whose pupils come from Japan — the school will emphasise the belief that children have a natural tendency to be good and that , given freedom , they will develop on their own . |
| 44 | When I produce the new album , it 's got to be good . ’ |
| 45 | So why chop off the hand of the messenger when the news turns out to be good ? ’ |
| 46 | ‘ It must proclaim , too , that responsibilities are as important as rights ; that there are no excuses for crime ; and that even those who have turned out to be bad can be helped to be good . ’ |
| 47 | I know he 's got his reputation as a good teacher to keep up , but that does n't matter to me , I 'm different , I 'm not like this soft lot down here , my folks came from the North , descended from the Vikings , and I do n't want to be liked , I do n't want to be good , I do n't want to be in the football team , or a useful member of anything , I do n't want to know . |
| 48 | All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will … |
| 49 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 50 | Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common . |
| 51 | ‘ Male Ventriloquism ’ was judged to be good work and discounted by the examiners as probably largely by Roland , which was doubly unjust , since he had refused to look at it , and did not agree with its central proposition , which was that Randolph Henry Ash neither liked nor understood women , that his female speakers were constructs of his own fear and aggression , that even the poem-cycle , Ask to Embla , was the work , not of love but of narcissism , the poet addressing his Anima . |
| 52 | ‘ What do I need to be good in the morning for , Mom ? |
| 53 | Better to be good to him — be specially good to him . |
| 54 | Beatitude is , in my opinion , a possession of all things we believe to be good , from which nothing is absent that a good desire may want . |
| 55 | Not many of us consider ourselves to be good listeners . |
| 56 | Instead of meandering up a path to the top , chatting amicably to a pal about how George Michael used to be good in Wham and passing round the butterscotch , they choose a cliff and try to reach the summit by slowly inching their way up vertical rock , pushing their fingers into tiny fissures and standing with one toe on a ledge the size of a pebble . |
| 57 | It decided me that I was n't going to be good enough to make the grade . |
| 58 | So far as serious crime was concerned , three conditions had to be satisfied : the crime had to be really serious ; the normal methods of investigation had to have been tried and failed ; and there had to be good reason to believe that the interception would result in a conviction ( Birkett , 1957 ) . |
| 59 | But their reasons will have to be good ! |
| 60 | If she was going to qualify for Wembley , she was going to have to do it on her own and Midnight just had to be good enough . |