Example sentences of "[conj] it be [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is a good idea to make several copies at a time of your c.v. , especially if you are going to apply for a lot of jobs ‘ on spec. ’ , do not get too many done at once . |
| 2 | The techniques involved are quite simple , although it is a good idea to practise first with spare icing if you are unused to handling icing and piping bags . |
| 3 | He says that it 's a better craft than those in which he trained . |
| 4 | Treatment is refused on the basis that it 's a better use of resources to spend them on the young . |
| 5 | Examples may make this clearer : A : I 've heard that it 's a good school . |
| 6 | that it 's a good idea for when people are intending to get stoned in a heavy way to have a baby-sitter , so there 's no reason why the baby- sitter could n't sit there with a tape recorder . |
| 7 | ‘ Masklin 's found out that it 's a good idea to send a girl flowers , ’ he said . |
| 8 | I 've looked into the potential of the station and am satisfied that it 's a good investment . |
| 9 | ‘ We have plans to in the longer term , ’ says Mr Tanner , ‘ as and when we can persuade our customers that it 's a good thing to do . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I 'm confident that it 's a good business , ’ he says . |
| 11 | well , when I say that it 's the best opportunity for peace I 've seen in twenty years . |
| 12 | Come Friday , take her out to lunch ( and make sure that it 's the best restaurant around and , furthermore , that you pay — not the company ) . |
| 13 | that it is no good thing for any state to be involved in redistributive welfare policies — in which case the periphery must presumably be left to fend for itself . |
| 14 | I feel sure that it is a better Bill than when it started . |
| 15 | The fact is that it is a good swim right from the beginning of the season , before our baits have any influence . |
| 16 | They believe that it is a good scheme as a whole , composed of clear and straightforward unambiguous statements ; that it is professionally stimulating and effective at evaluating institutional practices and motivating institutional change . |
| 17 | The political parties each have a different vision of precisely what citizenship involves but they are all broadly agreed that it is a good thing and agree in general terms at least on its basic ingredients . |
| 18 | Second , it is trying to persuade researchers that it is a good thing to work for the military . |
| 19 | we are safe , but I am not sure that it is a good thing on the whole . |
| 20 | The most significant — and debatable — belief about science , however , is that it is a good thing in itself . |
| 21 | It could involve a civil engineering student considering the social effects of a new construction — in other words , taking on a sociological perspective ; it could be a student of English trying to answer the question ‘ What is literature and why do we assume that it is a good thing ? ’ — and so embracing the thinking of moral philosophy ; it might be a student in the performing arts trying to understand how and why a particular tradition had evolved — so embarking on a historical study ; it could be a chemistry student being invited to consider the effects on the natural environment of industrial or agricultural chemicals — so adding a biological approach to the subject ; or it might be a social science student keen on human perspectives being encouraged to look at underlying statistical patterns . |
| 22 | The erm what we 've not erm what has not been er challenged is the argument that it is a good thing for North Yorkshire and for the region and for the United Kingdom and possibly for the European Union , that footloose inward investment , sorry footloose investment , of erm strategic importance should erm be capable of being attracted to this county . |
| 23 | Caterers should see that it is a good investment in their business , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I , I 'd suggest that it is a good bet , particularly if you think that erm if we do get rising inflation , er in the next year we could be , I mean the projected figures are round about er , by the middle of next year , round about five percent . |
| 25 | Do you think that it is a good policy ? |
| 26 | How can you go about convincing people that it is a good place , it is affordable and , as you rightly say , that travel — that 's the most important thing — that travel is safe . |
| 27 | The Prime Minister has told us that it is a good agreement for Britain . |
| 28 | I share his view that it is a good agreement for this country and a good agreement for Northern Ireland . |
| 29 | Law ( b ) is more falsifiable than law ( a ) , which is tantamount to saying that it claims more , that it is the better law . |
| 30 | This bottom-up approach may well be a very fruitful way of trying to understand what language is and how it works , but that does not mean that it is the best way to teach a language , or that it is the way we use a language when we do know it . |