Example sentences of "[prep] [be] good " in BNC.
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| 61 | It really is no use following the tacking pattern of someone who is meant to be good in front of you , since the shifts affect different parts of the course at different times . |
| 62 | It was easy , when we were predominantly discussing philosophy , to link farm animal welfare and protection of the environment , in so far as they are both concerned with what qualifies us to consider ourselves to be good people . |
| 63 | A prime requirement for the prevention of chronic complications such as coronary heart disease appears to be good glycaemic control , because many associated abnormalities such as hyperlipidaemia ( Sosenko et al , 1980 ) and perhaps increased platelet aggregation ( Petersen et al , 1977 ) may be improved as the blood glucose level is normalised . |
| 64 | Encouraging children to wish to be good is more important than making them be good . |
| 65 | Ask yourself , ‘ What precisely is it I wish my child to say and/or do when I am asking him/her to be good , polite , helpful , kind ? ’ ( or any of those other vague goals parents set for their bemused offspring ) . |
| 66 | The Saturday Review said that there were only four entries that it deemed to be good enough to be designated Gothic , but Clarke 's catalogue listed a further fourteen Gothic schemes . |
| 67 | Although the MECs are often influential bodies and have a valuable information role , they are not typically felt to be good decision-making bodies enabling doctors to make prompt and positive contributions to management . |
| 68 | Claystones and siltstones containing finely dispersed coaly matter are considered to be good sources — besides many coal seams . |
| 69 | Partnerships between education and business are generally believed to be good , useful and worthwhile . |
| 70 | However , the continuation … so we did it , which substitutes a deep anaphor , do it , for a verb phrase ellipsis , is usually judged to be good . |
| 71 | Judgements of students are often made on the basis of the subjective values of teachers or ward staff , that is , on what is believed to be good practice . |
| 72 | Apparently he always reckoned a pretty girl with a lovely smile was more important than any other quality ; so the teeth had to be good . |
| 73 | After snarling a few choice remarks at them from the corners of our mouths , such as , ‘ Get lost ! ’ or ‘ Beat it ! ’ , which we understood to be good American for , ‘ Please go away , we do not wish for company , ’ we managed to rid ourselves of a few of them , but two of the most persistent followed us until we were clear of the town , and then we realised that the only way to be left alone was for us to be really rude . |
| 74 | People who are good at seeing the figure ground relationships in pictures tend also to be good at sentence-completion exercises , word analogies , problem solving , and so on . |
| 75 | Somehow he thinks it remote from morality to face the facts ; somehow he thinks it possible to be good without being wise . |
| 76 | He may be so anxious to please you that he tries extra hard to be good . |
| 77 | But , whatever you do , you must never forget that there are a lot of very important things which are said to come from ‘ god ’ , and which nevertheless , we all believe to be good . |
| 78 | Several parts of Ayrshire had rock thought to be good for making curling stones but the rock which was , and still is , most popular is from the islet of Ailsa Craig . |
| 79 | So many graduates appear to be good ideas people , but he relates exceptionally well . |
| 80 | Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage . |
| 81 | How else is the good reader to learn the difference between what others — critics for example — say is good , and what is personally judged to be good ? |
| 82 | Having eight men from outside the continent in a race did not seem to me to be good business . |
| 83 | The water 's supposed to be good , you know , as well as the air . ’ |
| 84 | But very soon pressure from the vassals — and also , it may be , the simple fact that a good vassal 's children were likely to be good vassals themselves — made it common , then normal , and finally an inherent part of the feudal contract that the grant was heritable . |
| 85 | They had to be good — not just good but sensational — or she would let everyone down , all those who believed in her — her small workforce of pattern cutters and outworkers , the friends from art school who dropped in to lend their help and support , and most of all her mother , who had put her house up as collateral for the bank loan that had set her up and enabled her to get started . |
| 86 | In some areas numbers have , in fact , returned to pest proportions — which has to be good news for the sportsman . |
| 87 | If video killed the radio star , then the continued survival of radio drama must suggest something , like radio drama does n't need stars to be good . |
| 88 | Try to do what everyone considers to be good ’ ( Romans 12:17 ) . |
| 89 | The interesting fact was that Lugard united in his person , in an exceptionally dramatic and compulsive fashion , the two opposing but eternally co-existing currents of British imperial thought : the desire to be powerful , and the desire to be good . |
| 90 | Without disparaging the spiritual discipline practised in the Lugard home , it seems fair to say that young Freddy , who even then possessed a lively truculence , studied too assiduously to be good . |