Example sentences of "[vb base] to be good " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many graduates appear to be good ideas people , but he relates exceptionally well . |
| 2 | For TV , he or she will have to analyse the scheduled programmes both of ITV and BBC to determine which ITV programmes appear to be good buys , and which will be poor ones , in relation to the rate card . |
| 3 | They both appear to be good coming forward , but neither has pace and both look clumsy , exaggerated when playing together . |
| 4 | There are developers for whom a building is not just another source of profit and who want to be good patrons . |
| 5 | I mean most women just want to be good at something , they 've got good-at minds , and they mean deftness and a flair and good taste and what-not . |
| 6 | I want to be good , and I 'm going to be happy . |
| 7 | South Africa opened an " interests office " in Windhoek on Dec. 13 , 1989 , offering a full range of consular services , including issue of passports and visas ; the deputy head of the office said : " South Africa demonstrates by this that we want to be good neighbours and hope it will be possible to retain normal and friendly relations with the neighbouring state . " |
| 8 | This proposition is illustrated and supported by Scotson v. Pegg ( supra ) which their Lordships consider to be good law . ’ |
| 9 | The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at . |
| 10 | But barley yields seem to be good . |
| 11 | Loadings seem to be good this summer . |
| 12 | And so far as I can tell , you know , from looking at my children 's schooling , the girls seem to be good at maths in the early stages . |
| 13 | Oh yes , I do not mind for I like to be good . |
| 14 | Beatitude is , in my opinion , a possession of all things we believe to be good , from which nothing is absent that a good desire may want . |
| 15 | But , whatever you do , you must never forget that there are a lot of very important things which are said to come from ‘ god ’ , and which nevertheless , we all believe to be good . |
| 16 | Like another release in the same series — Benedict Mason 's Lighthouses of England and Wales , which I 've reviewed at length below — Birtwistle 's work is also , for all its contemporary superstructure and substructures , a species of tone-poem in a genre that British composers tend to be good at : in this case the quasipantheistic dark-pastoral in the tradition of North Country Sketches , In the Faery Hills , Enter Spring and , perhaps especially , the ‘ Ritual dances ’ from Tippett 's Midsummer Marriage . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | It 's like the attitude that you have to be good and religious , think the right thoughts , wear the right clothes , believe the right things , come from the right background , if you are in any way to be acceptable to God . |
| 19 | Those things have to be good if you 're going to hold a World Cup because there is going to be a huge influx of tourists ’ , said Farr-Jones . |
| 20 | Jeremy : A sportsman you have to be good at things , a football player you have to be good at passing and good at things . |
| 21 | Jeremy : A sportsman you have to be good at things , a football player you have to be good at passing and good at things . |
| 22 | Playing snooker you have to be good at your shots and pot the ball — |
| 23 | ‘ They sure need to be good boys , being so hard up . |
| 24 | Media is one of the best documented jobs around , but as well as being able to assimilate all these facts and figures , media people need to be good mixers , good talkers and skilled negotiators . |
| 25 | Suppose I suggest to you that we stop part of your wages to help pay for the damage to the china and to Mrs Darrell 's dignity , and you promise to be good in future ? ’ |
| 26 | Advertising writing is an absorbing and interesting job with lots of laughs and lots of rewards , not least financially , if you prove to be good at it . |