Example sentences of "good [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Demand was so good that it expanded from there , and George was happy to act as consultant , in return for being given some ground space at Ramsey to grow on Bonsai — his current passion . ’ |
| 2 | If each area could provide itself with just the quantity of the good that it requires , these deadweight losses could be avoided . |
| 3 | Gabriel put his flat trumpet to his lips and pretended to blow — and , underneath the cart , a shawm blew a nasal fanfare : the timing was so good that it startled even Gabriel . |
| 4 | It 's just good that it looks like we 're winning . |
| 5 | It was good once it got going . |
| 6 | But like medicine it did him good , and the food tasted better than it looked , and after a while the silence grew less tense and they began to chat about the contrast between bloody-minded , earnest Perugia , just visible on its wind-swept ridge as a distant smudge of grey , and Assisi , symbol of everything nice and pretty and kind , whose pink stone made even its fortifications look as innocent as an illustration in a book of fairy tales . |
| 7 | Mick was less fortunate , and when I awoke in the depressing gloom of dawn , he reported that the weather was very much better than it had been for a long time . |
| 8 | In Wilson 's eyes the condition of the British seaman was scarcely better than it had been half a century earlier . |
| 9 | What is surprising is that , when they took the weight off again , the feedforward net 's output was better than it had ever been before . |
| 10 | Indeed , it was better than it had been for months . |
| 11 | Visibility on the water was slightly better than it had been on land — there were no hummocks , and somehow night never seems quite so dark at sea as on land . |
| 12 | Slightly better than it had been previously . |
| 13 | And as you may be aware that er in , in , in in the local elections this year , in May , the Conservative Party did dramatically well , much better than it did in the general election yeah ? |
| 14 | I was sitting on the sofa , quietly crying ; I think I was wishing that Auschwitz looked better than it did , just now , with its windless heat and plagues of flies homing in on the marshes . |
| 15 | It looks better than it did . |
| 16 | Looks better than it did did ! |
| 17 | It 's too thin , it 's too sharp , it 's better than it looks on the telly , it reminds them of the wife , it gets right up their nose , etc. etc . |
| 18 | The latter survived the bombings of World War II better than it survived the ravages of time after Leonardo 's highly original method of fresco working failed to live up to its inventor 's hopes , but it still remains one of the masterpieces of Renaissance art . |
| 19 | While much of the UK is looking gloomily at the dark clouds of a major recession , it seems poetic justice that for at least some of Belfast 's population , the future looks better than it has for many years . |
| 20 | Typing it out shows quickly that the work is better than it appears : indeed , once the courtroom scene is reached , the writer 's touch becomes sure , and his competence in handling reported speech is impressive . |
| 21 | It is not official information , it is better that it goes directly to a department that can deal with it . |
| 22 | point of view when the information 's been com when so it 's coming in and being sorted it is better that it 's done at that particular time |
| 23 | He forecast : ‘ This Treaty will end in tears it is better that it ends in tears now than it ends in very bitter tears in five , ten or 15 years . ’ |
| 24 | It was better if it had never happened . |
| 25 | It 's a world away from J. M. Barrie 's classic story — and you ca n't help feeling it could have been better if it had followed that more closely . |
| 26 | It was an enormously thorough and comprehensive review of the case , running to four volumes and more than 1200 pages , yet it would have been better if it had been half the length and taken half the time . |
| 27 | This public assertion of my childhood 's usefulness stands side by side with the painful personal knowledge , I think the knowledge of all of us , going as far back as the story lets us , that it would have been better if it had n't happened that way , had n't happened at all . |
| 28 | Someone once worked out that there were about a dozen words which appeared more often than any other in ad headlines , and concluded slightly illogically — that any ad would be better if it had one or more of them in the headline . |
| 29 | Would it have been better if it had not been a corner ball ? |
| 30 | If you 'd wanted to separate off your paras , you 'd put in a full size slug because it was easy to make up and the whole thing was absolutely modular erm but perhaps it would have looked better if it had been A four , or you know , Swiss in some way . |