Example sentences of "be good [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She felt that her mother would be good to poor Monica . |
| 2 | Expensive gestures may be good for political show ; they will also mean more waste dumped in the wrong places . |
| 3 | There is a certain medicinal thinking behind the labelling , a feeling that a book that is difficult to read and difficult to obtain meaning and enjoyment from , must be good for young people in some way . |
| 4 | Its true reasoning was that doubled car consumption would be good for General Motors and what was good for General Motors , as its president , Charles E. Wilson , memorably announced as his political philosophy , was good for the country . |
| 5 | On this line of reasoning , two humans mentioned separately might be good for plural reference , while a human and an animal will be less good ( although plural reference is by no means ruled out in many cases ) . |
| 6 | ‘ What we saw this evening has to be good for British tennis . ’ |
| 7 | They must be good for manual dexterity and keeping children occupied . ’ |
| 8 | People who are good at seeing the figure ground relationships in pictures tend also to be good at sentence-completion exercises , word analogies , problem solving , and so on . |
| 9 | Nowadays a chief executive has to have a strong understanding of finance , he needs to be good at public relations , he must understand technology , he must be able to cope with labour problems and he must ( as always ) be a good selector of people . |
| 10 | Some of these rules may be good in other situations , and deserve high weights . |