Example sentences of "[vb base] to be good at " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | The sorts of things I happen to like , the sorts of things I happen to be good at or bad at . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | Jeremy : A sportsman you have to be good at things , a football player you have to be good at passing and good at things . |
| 7 | Jeremy : A sportsman you have to be good at things , a football player you have to be good at passing and good at things . |
| 8 | Playing snooker you have to be good at your shots and pot the ball — |
| 9 | 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 . |