Example sentences of "[prep] [be] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere in between are good plants for small gardens , only reaching about 2ft with a far daintier habit . |
| 2 | If he had n't of picked his drink up that would of been good ! |
| 3 | So she must of been good . |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps the most accessible form of freedom , the most subjectively enjoyed , and the most useful to human society , consists of being good at your job … ’ . |
| 5 | This is not a great Springbok side , indeed sometimes it looks a little short of being good . |
| 6 | But Little Billy was awfully tired of being good . |
| 7 | The point is surely that the properties of being good and being yellow are not complex properties as being a horse is , which is ( we may take him to be supposing ) a matter of having a whole lot of simpler properties , such as having a certain sort of head , a certain sort of tail , and so forth . |
| 8 | The landscape of feeling that this measured upbringing inculcated in countless children has yet to be surveyed ; we should start , perhaps , with the burden of being good , and the painful watchful attention towards the needs of others rather than oneself . |
| 9 | Lydia was tired of being good . |
| 10 | and the periods of of being good are getting longer . |
| 11 | And if any entity , anywhere in the universe , happens to have the property of being good at making more copies of itself , then automatically more and more copies of that entity will obviously come into existence . |
| 12 | the chasm is too great though the gulf between God and man is , is far too wide and we try our various planks , our planks of being good , of doing nice things , planks of being religious , of being confirmed , of being baptized , of going to church of perhaps attending church , perhaps even becoming a member of a church , the plank of saying prayers I think you know and God does n't even hear us , the bible tells us , if I regarded iniquity in my heart God does n't hear me , he says I will not hear you , the only prayer that God hears from the sinner is God be merciful to me a sinner and we 've tried that plank and it does n't work , of course it does n't because that 's not what it means to be a Christian , the plank of bible reading , we can read the bible , we can memorise it , it does n't make us a Christian , Jesus said to some of the religious leaders of his days , you search the scriptures for you think that in them you have life , but you will not come to me , and so it 's not being in religious , er being religious or any thing else as we well know , it 's something far , far more fundamental than that , those words that Jesus said to Nicodemus you must be born again , that new birth , that new start , starting all over again , and so what happens , what 's it all about , what is it to , what is it to be a Christian . |
| 13 | What there is a shortage of is good propositions which are realistically priced and properly thought through and presented . |
| 14 | They know that there will be subjects to choose between at the right moment ( or , sometimes , subjects for which their children will not be chosen ) and they associate the chances of doing well at , for instance , GCSE level in mathematics with being good at maths in the primary school . |
| 15 | Developing the thought into consideration of wickedness , Johnson 's one-two punch summarised the presence and shape of evil within the human spirit , and he returns , if obliquely , to his recurring theme of the difficulty in being good , rather than succumbing to the natural animus all humans share . |
| 16 | What I am interested in is good scripts . |
| 17 | They are not looking for you to fail — every audition panel wants you to be good . |
| 18 | It 's a kind of exam — and it 's important to school yourself to be good at exams . |
| 19 | I was never any good at lecturing so it 's nice to be good at something . ’ |
| 20 | We wanted , on the whole , to be good , not just through fear of punishment , but perhaps with an element of pride . |
| 21 | There are developers for whom a building is not just another source of profit and who want to be good patrons . |
| 22 | It would be simplistic and indeed inaccurate , however , to ascribe a single ‘ mood ’ to the workforce , although industrial relations are considered generally to be good as memories of last year 's conflict dim . |
| 23 | Yesterday 's denoument will also turn out to be good for Edwards , who will be able to sell his stake for a good deal more than the £10m on offer . |
| 24 | The obvious disadvantage here is the possibility of cold spots along the stitching and such bags tend only to be good for one or two season use . |
| 25 | He is not convinced that having read them aspiring managers can go away and teach themselves to be good leaders . |
| 26 | ‘ February is only a short month , so it is not going to have a devastating effect on figures , and there are now signs that the recession is bottoming out , which has to be good for the industry , ’ a spokesman said . |
| 27 | But then to be good at a sport , really good I mean , you have to learn how to do what you are doing naturally in the best way possible . |
| 28 | A cork does n't have to be long to be good . |
| 29 | One of more than 1,000 women drivers taking part said , ‘ Men have to be good at everything , especially driving … it 's a big ego thing . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Piss is supposed to be good for warts , ’ Arty said . |