Example sentences of "[prep] [being] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 … ’ . |
| 2 | This is not a great Springbok side , indeed sometimes it looks a little short of being good . |
| 3 | But Little Billy was awfully tired of being good . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Lydia was tired of being good . |
| 7 | and the periods of of being good are getting longer . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had always banked on being good enough to play another Test match , even if he had been made to serve the full five-year ban . |
| 13 | It is no longer possible to found a reputation for scholarship on being good at spotting allusions . |
| 14 | In addition to being good teachers able to motivate their students they are also expected to be able to plan and present a scheme of work , write a syllabus with clear aims and objectives . |
| 15 | ‘ Though , of course , he added , ‘ a thing may be original without being good . ’ |
| 16 | It is the work that is the most important thing to learn at school , with arithmetic being favoured by a three-to-one margin over being good . |
| 17 | We hear talk nowadays about being good Europeans . |
| 18 | The important thing in this case was to reward him for being good rather than punish him for being naughty — if you scold or hit a young horse for not standing still you will only make matters worse . |
| 19 | ‘ Reward a young horse for being good rather than punish him for being naughty ’ |
| 20 | It provides an opportunity for the child to get plenty of attention for being good . |
| 21 | DESPITE HIS assertion that he is not anti-Japanese ( Business column , June ) , it is difficult to see Jeffrey Ferry 's article as anything other than yet another petulant cry at the temerity of these Japanese — for being good at business when they do n't look like us , behave like us or even speak the language properly . |
| 22 | to be taken in hand and led , like being a child again , even without the innocence , a child — It 's like being given a prize , an extra slice of childhood when you least expect it , as a prize for being good , or compensation for never having had one … |
| 23 | Sainsbury 's cookbooks are generally renowned for being good value for money and The Cooking of Russia by Karen Craig and Seva Novgorodsev ( £1.25 ) is no exception . |
| 24 | I mean , you 'd need to do something really awful , , but if you did something really awful like , for being good , but having said that erm , you could have got elected again . |
| 25 | Is that for being good or is that for for having good clean teeth ? |
| 26 | Five pound for you Fred for being good to me . |
| 27 | Global warming is one area of ecological concern where the solutions are good for the economy , by being good for the consumer and good for businesses alike . |
| 28 | He 's garnered the accolades and the money that have come his way by being good at his job , by knowing his strengths , and by a modicum of luck . |
| 29 | And then , as a schoolgirl , Molly had further distanced herself from him by being good at mathematics . |