Example sentences of "how good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I can still remember how good that coffee tasted , and how different it tasted from the common-room coffee I was used to . |
| 2 | Family rooms are useful to let the less well-behaved and noisier children run riot but they are frequently cold and characterless and , no matter how good the facilities may be , you often feel excluded from the main atmosphere of the pub . |
| 3 | No matter how well intentioned an author may be , no matter how good his work is considered , a lavish photographic book of this kind , and of this price , must stand or fall on the sheer quality of the pictures selected and the way in which they are presented . |
| 4 | ‘ The future of the capercaillie will depend on how good a habitat we provide for them in our new forests , ’ he said . |
| 5 | I picked an individual Cottage Pie , because that is something I sometimes prepare at home and I think I know how good ( or terrible ! ) it can be . |
| 6 | The author of this memoir , while an undergraduate , once borrowed fourteen books about history from Edward Wynn and , on the way to return them , inadvertently dropped them all into the River Pem — and so is better placed than anyone to testify how good a man was Edward Wynn . |
| 7 | If the 420SE is this good , how good is its replacement going to be ? |
| 8 | This is how the Autocar & Motor How Fast , How Good data has been derived : 30–70mph indicates overtaking ability and is measured through the gears ; 30–50mph is recorded in top gear ( or fourth in the case of five-speed manual gearbox models ) ; 50–70 mph is recorded in top . |
| 9 | This is how the Autocar & Motor How Fast , How Good data has been derived : 30–70mph indicates overtaking ability and is measured in top gear ( or fourth in the case of five-speed manual gearboxes ) ; 50–70mph is recorded in top . |
| 10 | So much for the asides — but how good is Lewis on the subject he sets himself — on Milton ? |
| 11 | ‘ But in the end he stood back and agreed how good it looked . ’ |
| 12 | We will let you know in the September magazine just how good the Ventures were and what went on . |
| 13 | But actually , I do n't think the record company realized just how good the song was . |
| 14 | The father sees the son coming home after all the bingeing — the wine , women and song — and runs out with love and says : ‘ How good it is to have you home ! |
| 15 | ‘ It 's marvellous how good second-hand flowers can be . |
| 16 | How good Florence Ames will be for me , she thought . |
| 17 | How good of you to do all that work — and it is such hard work ! |
| 18 | For instance , everyone makes such a fuss of Elizabeth Taylor when she loses weight , pampering her and commenting on how good she looks , but when she regains it , as she always does , we are told how ugly and inflated she is , and even she does not escape comparison — with Joan Collins . |
| 19 | I agree with eating disorder 's therapist Marilyn Lawrence that ‘ when compulsive exercisers talk about how good their regime makes them feel , they are actually talking about wanting to be a good person . |
| 20 | Half of me wanted to ‘ wow ’ everyone with how good I looked — show them I could do it , be thin if I wanted — but half of me also wanted them not to notice . |
| 21 | I asked him how good his pianissimo was . |
| 22 | Just how good a choreographer was Bournonville in the first place ? |
| 23 | Everyone knows how good he is , or nearly is , but somehow he remains a more remote figure . |
| 24 | Everyone knows how good is he is , or nearly is , but somehow he remains a more remote figure , both on the course and off it . |
| 25 | I started off with a random set of guesses as to how to break the code , and then checked each guess to see how good it was at turning the garbled message into English . |
| 26 | But no matter how good the makers claim it is , the customers will decide with their wallets which one is better . |
| 27 | We do not yet know how good a Prime Minister he is . |
| 28 | Her work was too unconventional for immediate popular acceptance , but Cameron could tell how good she was , and was supportive even when she was discouraged . |
| 29 | Cameron knew how good his son really was , and encouraged him to break free of the pop straitjacket . |
| 30 | That 's how good it was . ’ |