Example sentences of "[vb pp] to be good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Priced at £4.95 a bottle which when diluted equals 82p per usable litre , AirX is claimed to be good value , say the manufacturers , when compared to spending money on products that only mask smells . |
| 2 | Claystones and siltstones containing finely dispersed coaly matter are considered to be good sources — besides many coal seams . |
| 3 | He believes ‘ That all individuals should be considered to be good , worthwhile and honest until he or she proves to the contrary ’ , It is a sentiment that still today remains his guiding light , and he would add that ‘ All things are possible through God ’ . |
| 4 | Trading was reported to be good , if not euphoric , with every gallery selling and some moving as many as twenty works , mostly in a FFr 12,000 ( £1,200 ; $2,000 ) -FFr 100,000 ( £10,300 ; $18,000 ) price range . |
| 5 | On the same evening he had been admitted to hospital with heart trouble , but although his condition was reported to be good the next day , he did not withdraw his candidacy . |
| 6 | Days ago she had decided to be good — she was being quite good — but she was only pretending to be good so far and all this appreciation was as yet undeserved . |
| 7 | Although the MECs are often influential bodies and have a valuable information role , they are not typically felt to be good decision-making bodies enabling doctors to make prompt and positive contributions to management . |
| 8 | It might also provide a means of distinguishing fragments of discourse which are felt to be good , coherent , examples of English from those that are , intuitively , incoherent concatenations of sentences . |
| 9 | Who is to say that the poorer countries of Europe are to be happy with a dominant Germany just because it is said to be good for ‘ Europe ’ ? |
| 10 | That is , what must be done in certain circumstances can not be said to be good without qualification and might involve evil and suffering . |
| 11 | On admission , the child 's condition was said to be good , and she had fully recovered by the autumn . |
| 12 | Moore is not denying that such elucidation is sometimes needed and possible , but bringing home to us that this is never what is going on when all things with a certain complex property are said to be good . |
| 13 | The forgeries are said to be good quality copies . |
| 14 | As long as Man 's intentions can be made to be good … |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | How can God be seen to be good when one considers what history has been , and what it has meant for women that God has been conceived in primarily male terms ? |
| 17 | Several parts of Ayrshire had rock thought to be good for making curling stones but the rock which was , and still is , most popular is from the islet of Ailsa Craig . |
| 18 | Judges who thumb their noses at presidents are thought to be good for democracy . |
| 19 | Prospects for new work are thought to be good . |
| 20 | It was thought to be good to have this led by an overseas person . |
| 21 | Like most boys he 's full of sin but he 's promised to be good . |
| 22 | Humbly they had promised to be good . |
| 23 | When I produce the new album , it 's got to be good . ’ |
| 24 | It 's like a mini-performance ; you 've got to be good to maintain your cred , but what do you play ? |
| 25 | They 're the only Wren crew in the flotilla , so they 've got to be good . ’ |
| 26 | It 's a spanner in the works , and that 's got to be good news . ’ |
| 27 | This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ : the way she moves has got to be good news , ca n't gel loose till I feel the juice — suck and spread , bitch , yeah bounce for me baby … |
| 28 | But we found we were sawing a lot of stuff up , was no good for the slate making , you know it it 's got to be good for slate making , a lot of veins and lots of muck in 'em . |
| 29 | You know , I mean we revert a lot of trade here to next day , so the quality of service has got to be good or we lose them . |
| 30 | Whether human , environmental or financial risks are involved , prevention strategies are being shown to be good business . |