Example sentences of "to be a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is therefore difficult for him to appreciate the general view of the Service , that , on his return … he must re-establish his professional standing , even though a few years earlier the Service had sent him to University because he had proved himself to be a good , practical policeman . |
| 2 | To be a good business man is the epitome of development and these learned people secretly aspire to that goal . |
| 3 | In my own teaching , in my own responsibilities , I think I have to make two gestures simultaneously : to train people , to teach them , to give them a content , to be a good pedagogue , to train teachers , to give them a profession ; and at the same time to make them as conscious as possible of the problems of professionalization . |
| 4 | Richards , as we have seen , thought that in order to be a good reader of poetry one must already be a reader of poetry . |
| 5 | Uncle Sam 's man in Madrid THE BEST way to become an American ambassador to a Western country is not to be a good diplomat , but merely to contribute hefty sums to the winning presidential candidate . |
| 6 | They will not tell you whether a child is going to be a good citizen , when he 's nice to know or whether he 's well motivated . |
| 7 | PROPERTY stocks and high interest rates are not thought to be a good combination . |
| 8 | This might be thought to be a good thing . |
| 9 | They have to be a good thing for anyone who is content to be out of shares and keep part of their money in liquid money funds ’ . |
| 10 | It 's got to be a good loaf of bread , like that one you buy down the road , the black one , that 'll do . |
| 11 | Rachel was kinder and gentler towards her than she had ever been before ; but she also required Phoebe to take responsibility for the baby , to be a good mother , to take heed for the morrow . |
| 12 | Every fish he got seemed to be a good 'un . |
| 13 | This is going to be a good trip . |
| 14 | She 's just an old woman living in the past , and if I never have another one this evening is going to be a good one . ’ |
| 15 | One gets the feeling from Warnie 's diary , for example , that it was better to be a good Inkling than a good poet , or even a good man . |
| 16 | It could prove to be a good roll of the dice , for Mr Hughes has also written a book on the mathematics of five-dice games and devised special packaging to exploit the game 's addictiveness by allowing it to be played while it is hanging from the supermarket shelf . |
| 17 | A MAN of many parts , Warren Tute was thought by those who knew him only slightly to be a good raconteur and a popular member of the Garrick . |
| 18 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 19 | Once again the ground has ruined what promised to be a good contest and only four of the 15 entries go to post . |
| 20 | To be a good cook you have to do a lot of things precisely , but it requires no understanding . |
| 21 | Over-zealous expansion may be counter-productive as well as burdensome : a good school may cease to be a good school if its classes are overflowing and its playgrounds full of makeshift accommodation . |
| 22 | It was not felt to be a good idea to mention the word ‘ grovel ’ in the presence of the England captain , especially as he had scored only 38 runs in five innings . |
| 23 | Sometimes he forgot and gave them again , which she took to be a good sign . |
| 24 | Now I 'm going to be a good girl . |
| 25 | ‘ There used to be a good chippy down the back of Albert Street . |
| 26 | As a result twenty-nine food ships — the organizing of which proved to be a good way of strengthening support , were sent to Republican Spain during the three years of the civil war . |
| 27 | They lived with the shepherds and survived chiefly on mutton cooked with wild herbs , spignel meu they found to be a good substitute for rosemary and the child loved to eat the aniseed-flavoured seedheads . |
| 28 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 29 | Earthworms are the main item in a badger 's diet and cow grazing pastures just happen to be a good source of earthworms . |
| 30 | 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 . |