Example sentences of "[prep] [be] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not looking for you to fail — every audition panel wants you to be good . |
| 2 | It 's a kind of exam — and it 's important to school yourself to be good at exams . |
| 3 | I was never any good at lecturing so it 's nice to be good at something . ’ |
| 4 | We wanted , on the whole , to be good , not just through fear of punishment , but perhaps with an element of pride . |
| 5 | There are developers for whom a building is not just another source of profit and who want to be good patrons . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He is not convinced that having read them aspiring managers can go away and teach themselves to be good leaders . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | A cork does n't have to be long to be good . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Piss is supposed to be good for warts , ’ Arty said . |
| 15 | And pornography , to be good , has to be elegant . ’ |
| 16 | But whether artificial intelligence turns out to be good enough for the movie makers is likely to be another matter . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 … ‘ |
| 22 | But barley yields seem to be good . |
| 23 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And having earned more and kept more we needed to be good housekeepers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | When I produce the new album , it 's got to be good . ’ |
| 29 | So why chop off the hand of the messenger when the news turns out to be good ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ 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 . ’ |