Example sentences of "be [verb] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the end of our discussion , however , he was still prepared to go on thinking about an editorial involvement — I ( mis ? ) led him to believe the amount of work could be contained and he would be given good backing by OUP . |
| 2 | Manipulation can be considered good or bad depending on the context in which it is used . |
| 3 | Butterflyfish can normally be considered good members of an aquarium community , as they are not usually attacked by other fish . |
| 4 | The religious man shall be counted insane ; the irreligious shall be thought wise ; the furious , brave ; and the worst of men shall be considered good . |
| 5 | A letter of instruction , for example , by one of the parties to his Notary to prepare the conveyance will be considered good evidence of the existence of such verbal contract . |
| 6 | The first principle must be to obtain good advice . |
| 7 | In this small inward-looking world , the intrusion of death could be dreadfully destructive ; the damage could be limited partly by sharing the loss and partly by belief that it would be made good in the afterlife . |
| 8 | The human losses mounted rapidly , and the extension of recruitment to those just eighteen years old and those already forty-five extended the worries about loved ones at the Front into almost every family , while at home their losses to farming and industry had to be made good , as far as possible , with more prisoners-of-war and ‘ foreign workers ’ . |
| 9 | In Europe the ravages of war had to be made good and then came the enlargement of universities , government institutes , and industrial establishments . |
| 10 | Until recently , they took it for granted that their supplies from domestic sources could be obtained on credit and that , when these bills matured , any shortage of funds would be made good by the banks . |
| 11 | He almost invariably added that any expense would soon be made good by the increased value of the property . |
| 12 | England is ideally suited to uncovered pitches , where time lost to the weather can be made good by allowing the bowler a natural means of compensation . |
| 13 | Below and beyond this zone behavioural responses must become the major controlling mechanism , but this becomes metabolically expensive , and must lead to exhaustion if it can not be made good by an increased intake of food and rest . |
| 14 | Advocates of participative approaches to the introduction of new technology would applaud the involvement of production workers in ‘ productionising ’ the machinery , arguing that such involvement would mean that the particular knowledge of the workers , gained from their on-the-job experience , could be made good use of , and also that such involvement usually leads to greater commitment to the change . |
| 15 | Also , the concept of limited liability in the UK is much more protective of proprietors than it is in the Code Napoleon countries , where , for example , net worth deficiencies have to be made good immediately , otherwise the company must cease trading . |
| 16 | ‘ Damage to coastal defences is estimated at a little under £2 million and this will be made good as a matter of urgency . |
| 17 | This is the relatively cheerful theory , because the damage done by unkind history can be made good when history turns kind again . |
| 18 | Many deficiencies can be made good from alternative sources : time and again the Valor Ecclesiasticus , compiled barely a decade later , gives virtually the same values as the survey for Church properties . |
| 19 | Public law remedies will enable him or her to establish the illegality of the order ; but , unless the applicant can take advantage of some statutory provision for compensation , he or she will have to establish an entitlement to damages in private law if the damage is to be made good by monetary compensation . |
| 20 | But that could be made good , Mendoros reckons , by a joint venture with a well known local aero-engine manufacturer . |
| 21 | Their plans were strategic in the sense that an idealized future ( say 20 years hence ) was projected which would accommodate all assumptions as to likely change : there would be no great population growth ( why should there be ? — the 1930s had been a decade of population stagnation , if not decline ) ; inter-war regional drift would be halted ; the housing shortage would be made good ; the necessary population redistributions would be implemented , so reducing densities to an acceptable level in the inner districts ; areas for suburban expansion would be identified and selected against a background of open space and protected countryside ; lines for improved road communication would be safeguarded and the commercial areas , particularly town centres , would be better defined and made architectural show-pieces . |
| 22 | Any deficit in housing revenue would have to be made good from the general rate fund . |
| 23 | Unless … ’ her voice dropped lower , ‘ you get me to take you to La Lavandaia to be made good as new , but you would n't like that , my little lady , the cutting and the sewing hurts like the devil … . ’ |
| 24 | Any reasonable expenses incurred by the person who gave notice have to be made good to him by the company and recouped by the company out of any fees or other emoluments of the directors in default . |
| 25 | This is a departure from the Circulars it replaces , and must be made good . |
| 26 | Haymo found on a tour of the diocese that the Palace at Halling with its farming implements and utensils was in a much dilapidated state and he is quoted as saying the state of the property of the diocese was so bad that in seven years the damage could not be made good . |
| 27 | The benching will need to be made good with new mortar ( benching is designed to have a slope of 1 in 6 ) and the walls of the inspection chamber repaired with small pieces of brick mortared in place . |
| 28 | The Conservatives ' strategy of holding back the state pension on the ground that the deficit could be made good by additional private sector pensions has been blown out of the water , not least by the vulnerability of occupational pensions which we have witnessed recently and by the under-performance and the milking of private pension schemes themselves . |
| 29 | I understand these are all in a state of disrepair and I should be grateful if you would investigate and arrange for them to be made good . |
| 30 | Iraq appears — perhaps because of security considerations — to have withheld some of the data it would normally have reported , leaving gaps in the IMF 's tabulations which have to be made good from less direct sources like the analyses conducted by the Bank for International Settlements ( BIS ) and economic commentators . |