Example sentences of "be [adv] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the ballet itself was shaping well ‘ and turns out to be altogether better technically than Soldier 's Tale ’ . |
| 2 | She saw to the side of one of the houses the faded sign for Morgan and family , boot and shoemakers , fastened over what appeared to be little better than a shed . |
| 3 | It 'll be jolly good fun . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps we sha n't ever be jolly good friends . |
| 5 | The fact is , as we shall see , that different media do tend to be rather better for different things — you can not get a lot of information into a 30-second TV commercial , for example . |
| 6 | I imagine you 'd be rather good at that . ’ |
| 7 | A foreign accent is an unknown quantity ; you have to be rather good at languages to tell whether it 's common or not , and most of Nigel 's acquaintances did n't speak any other language well . |
| 8 | ‘ I do rather a lot of amateur acting , you know , and I 'm supposed to be rather good at accents . ’ |
| 9 | Much to Oliver 's annoyance they turned out to be rather good at it . |
| 10 | Therese could be rather good as Countess Maritza . |
| 11 | But he was very much afraid she was going to be rather good in Luxembourg — it was a role not unlike that of Countess Maritza . |
| 12 | Actually I 'll get in first , that 'll be rather good cos I do n't have to pay . |
| 13 | He added : ‘ The lottery will be tremendously good news for sport . |
| 14 | Mrs Dixon must either be ‘ in the know ’ from some source , or be incredibly good at guessing . |
| 15 | You 're going to be incredibly good at it — I can tell . |
| 16 | This may be all good fun , but is it justified when it is at the composer 's expense , and does not pay any regard to the evident persistence of the mensural tradition so obvious in the composer 's manuscripts ? |
| 17 | But that feels just a little too close for comfort to the flesh of a ben Issachar , and anyway , I 'm not sure that the Hebrew inscription engraved upon it would be terribly good for my already wobbly morale . |
| 18 | A If you put it in with another colour , all you get are ‘ streaks ’ which wo n't be much good as you are trying to change the colour . |
| 19 | Oh yes , now if by any chanc chance you do have a question in the exam where you 're asked you know instead of the wound being on top of the scalp , some clever so and so decides that you 're good at improvising and you 've got a wound over the top of the eyebrow , the eyebrow 's split , okay , so there would n't be much good of me going a minute , pull that there , trying like this round there |
| 20 | Now , obviously , you know , yo getting the menopause out into the open so that everyone can talk about it , exchange information that that it 's not seen as a as a taboo or something to be particularly fearful of by men or women is n't going to be much good if it just makes everybody worry for er , for for the first half of o o o of their lives and , and then gibber through the second half ! |
| 21 | ‘ If he 's offered to come to me , he ca n't be much good . ’ |
| 22 | They may not be much good for space travel , but their presence means that we will be able to predict less than we expected , even if we do find a complete unified theory . |
| 23 | It would n't be much good telling them I had just popped out for a breath of air this street led to both the bus and railway stations and it would n't need a genius to rumble my little game . |
| 24 | But it so happens , you might say well all these years retired I ca n't be much good at the job , you 'll be interested to know that I give talks to groups which include retiring tax inspectors . |
| 25 | Here 's a new show — may not be much good — never mind , book Bernard Walton , he 'll get a few laughs out of it . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'd have classed you as too wrapped up in your own virtuous opinions to be much good at listening to other people 's . ’ |
| 27 | or wrap some aluminium foil round these to protect them , not going to be much good . |
| 28 | no , its pointless , ca n't sing , ca n't play a thing , I would n't be much good would I ? |
| 29 | When I heard Celtic were interested , I decided Scotland would be much better for me . ’ |
| 30 | Eleanor would n't be much better than Gina — she was nearly as rude as his wife . |