Example sentences of "is [adv] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Independent featured a long news article about the Great Bolt Debate , written by Stephen Goodwin , an Indy staff newsman who , I 'm reliably informed , is rather a good climber . |
| 2 | UNLIKE almost everyone else , many economists reckon insider dealing is rather a good thing . |
| 3 | The track which you follow from the village of Gavarnie to the cirque is necessarily a good , well-worn one , almost a road for much of the journey , through beech woods and then across open grasslands , before the last rough and rocky stretch up into the mouth of the cirque . |
| 4 | I understand that the statistics show that UKIAS ranks ahead of other people in its success rate at tribunals — not that that is necessarily a good or bad indication , but it is fact . |
| 5 | Data from the Third World suggests that it may be dubious : mortality is only a good indicator of the overall health of a population when infectious diseases are a major problem ( US National Center for Health Statistics 1973 ) . |
| 6 | Archaeology , in the sense of deciding where to excavate , is perhaps a good example of where the psychic ability may often be used unconsciously . |
| 7 | That this should be the case is perhaps a good indication of the need that Christian women feel to find themselves represented symbolically in their religion . |
| 8 | It is perhaps a good deal less than certain that this third characterization is conceptually distinct from the first two . |
| 9 | It is perhaps a good way of avoiding the hermeneutic error . |
| 10 | Asking what one remembers a couple of months after a conference is perhaps a good way of judging the event . |
| 11 | Nothing exciting has happened here , which is perhaps a good thing . |
| 12 | The thing was paid for by the International Fund for Animal Welfare : animal welfare is obviously a good cash-flow business . |
| 13 | The Andes is obviously a good place to go looking for an eruption of an andesite lava , but one would be extremely lucky to find one , because although there are numerous ‘ active ’ volcanoes along the Andean chain , andesite eruptions are really rather rare events compared to basaltic ones . |
| 14 | For this and other known and yet to be investigated reasons , it is obviously a good plan to boost daily fibre intake — for health and slimming benefit — from a variety of cereal , fruit and vegetable sources , and this is what you do on the F-Plan . |
| 15 | Eric is obviously a good player , but I am in the job and I do n't intend to give it up without a fight . ’ |
| 16 | The emergence of strong governments in European history is a movement labelled " progress " — and " progress " is obviously a good thing , if one has friends in the government . |
| 17 | An absence of information to aid the identification of those about to face a stressful event who would as a consequence be particularly susceptible to psychiatric disorder is obviously a good enough reason for not considering preventive intervention . |
| 18 | In general , the former method of organising by themes and keywords involves you more in doing analysis and thinking at the moment of reading , which is generally a good idea . |
| 19 | The manuscript of Taskopruzade omits the as , in effect , does Sa'deddin , who generally follows Taskopruzade very closely , the result of which omission is to say simply that he became at the Darulhadis. el-Kefevi 's text of Taskopruzade clearly included the however , since he states unequivocally that Molla Arab became Hizir Bey 's muid at the Darulhadis ; and there is thus a good case that , despite the doubts introduced by the manuscript of Taskopruzade and Sa'deddin , Taskopruzade intended the lahu . |
| 20 | The study is thus a good survey of Austen 's portrayal of her society . |
| 21 | Because a standard IQ score is usually a good measure of g it efficiently tells us something important . |
| 22 | a busy solicitor is usually a good solicitor ; |
| 23 | This is usually a good defence and should be borne in mind when preparing the case . |
| 24 | It is usually a good idea to walk with your dog in the usual fashion at first , working through the basic commands . |
| 25 | This is because the connection between a person 's everyday experience and his conceptual background is usually a good deal more tenuous than that between , say , his everyday experience of the weather and his belief that August is a wetter month than July . |
| 26 | Reasons of this sort dictate that the political impetus accompanying Ministers on arrival at their departments after an election is usually a good deal less noticeable at the Home Office than elsewhere in Whitehall . |
| 27 | Then report the find to an appropriate authority — a local museum is usually a good starting point , since it may employ an archaeologist . |
| 28 | A local map is usually a good starting point when it comes to picking a list of possibilities . |
| 29 | Your local amateur society is always a good beginning . |
| 30 | But I said that it is always a good sign when things go wrong before the night . |