Example sentences of "[be] a [adv] good [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't think Baker 's been a very good Home Secretary . |
| 2 | ‘ My mother was always shutting herself off from reality and from nastiness ; she was idealistic , which in commercial terms may have been a very good retailing idea but which I , as a rebellious teenager , found difficult to live with . ’ |
| 3 | And it 's been a fairly good rush hour on the buses and trains . |
| 4 | this proved to be a pretty good compromise sack for mixed daywalking and light load carrying — the back system and simple frame helping out when needed without adding too much to the weight the rest of the time . |
| 5 | Harold Wilson convinced me I was wrong because he trained himself very , very well to be a pretty good television performer , and I think it is necessary for the Prime Minister . |
| 6 | And yet that is one of the youngster 's attractions , that as well as being a very good tennis prospect , she is also a girl who enjoys life and the things other than tennis that it has to offer . |
| 7 | Well , it 's a pretty good press release |
| 8 | There 's a really good train service to Brighton so it 's easy to nip between the two . |
| 9 | Oh , it 's a very good film record it . |
| 10 | ‘ There 's a very good pasta restaurant at the bottom of the road , ’ Loretta admitted , trying to conceal her enthusiasm . |
| 11 | Well that 's it , that , that 's a very good starting point because one point that Freud er makes in the book and Andrea er alluded to but is , is very important in fact he calls it , there 's a little sub-section of the book called the Analogy and this is the erm analogy that Freud is gon na use for his study of Moseism the analogy he gives , er can you remember it Andrea ? |
| 12 | I would say I think that 's a very good point chairman now can we ask perhaps either our groundsman or or or whatever to look at it to see if something to make it safer for these these people to er get access to . |
| 13 | I do n't think he 's a very good people manager , but he admits to that , which is half the battle . ’ |
| 14 | Mark Tinkler is a pretty good ball winner/tackler himself and may get the nod when he recovers from his injury . |
| 15 | He even ended up inventing women — he is a very good story teller — to distract his mother 's jealousy from Veza , the amazing woman under whose spell he fell ( and who , in part three of the autobiography , he marries ) . |
| 16 | Erm he is a very good landscape photographer e er in a same style as Ansell Adams who 's his hero . |
| 17 | This is a very good reference source and is available for interrogation by any member State of ICAO . |
| 18 | You will see that most sailors are tidy around the boat particularly with loose ends of rope , and there is a very good safety reason . |
| 19 | Le Tissier is a very good club player but he has yet to prove himself . |
| 20 | ‘ I know he overcame a serious drink problem and is a very good family man . ’ |
| 21 | The first is , is a very good planning diary , it 's just automatic erm , A B and the third part of it , the last part is what we call the work organiser . |
| 22 | The warm , dry summer of 1989 was a particularly good breeding year for hares , and was followed by a high autumnal ‘ die-off ’ . |
| 23 | She was of a somewhat unusual design , rather narrow in the beam with a wide , bulbous underwater section midships , but in spite of a tendency to roll heavily in a beam sea she was a surprisingly good sea boat as she was to prove in the years that followed . |
| 24 | You may possibly have heard talk to the effect that I was a damned good scrum half . |
| 25 | For the full-time farmer 's son , and 95 ’ % of all German farms are run by family units , there was a very good Master Farmer training system . |
| 26 | He was a very good sheep man and had been known to tap dance , but only on very rare and special occasions . |