Example sentences of "it is good " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is good fun , too , for branches organise regular beer festivals and brewery visits . |
| 2 | It is good work , this , Angus , it is bringing the thing home to plenty folk who have only been in it for the furore so far , for the chance to squeeze their girls in the crowd and all that kind of thing . |
| 3 | Their argument is that it is good for the tournament , a s well as the players concerned , if as many as possible of the higher ranked competitors survive the early rounds . |
| 4 | It is good psychologically to look back and see just how much you have improved both in terms of strength and physique . |
| 5 | While cladding can be fixed directly to existing masonry walls , it is good practice to cover them with waterproof building paper first to prevent any moisture that gets behind the cladding from penetrating the wall itself . |
| 6 | Yet these matters , it has been suggested , lie deep — indeed , unutterably deep — in every American psyche ; and it is good that from time to time the unutterable be uttered — it is , one might say , one of the things that we look to poets for . |
| 7 | But the stories have a universal appeal simply as stories , and it is good that the underlying programme seldom obtrudes as badly as in the gift-shop passage above , where the helpful aside about tourism affecting rural culture worldwide strikes a primary-school note . |
| 8 | It is good to see the French contingent at the Umbrella . |
| 9 | It is good news for the club and the fans , ’ Edwards said yesterday . |
| 10 | The Trustees include widely experienced people and it is good to see Jim Hunter of Skye — crofting expert , historian and author of the definitive book The Making of the Crofting Community — heading the management committee for Torrin , which also includes the energetic national director , Terry Isles of Dundee . |
| 11 | Branch recruitment is of key importance , and it is good to report that Flt Lt C Harris , RHKAAF , has volunteered to help in this area . |
| 12 | It is good to report that branch membership has increased by 46% over the last four years . |
| 13 | Most people are amazed to get an answer from the band at all , so it is good business and public relations to try and answer these enquiries . |
| 14 | Androgyny , or what he calls the ‘ liberal supposition ’ that it is good for men and women to become more and more alike , creates in Mailer an aversion , ‘ a species of aesthetic nausea ’ ( pp. 134 — 5 ) . |
| 15 | By the same token , if it is good you only have to wait five minutes and it will get worse . |
| 16 | Commitment to sport has to be freely given ; it has to be fun ; it can not be foisted on to the poor or the wayward from above because it is good for them . |
| 17 | That makes it dramatically far less effective than on some previous recordings , but the central anthem is beautifully done , and it is good too to have the three superb Funeral Sentence anthems of a few years earlier . |
| 18 | At first you resent it , but then you get used to it , and it is good for being a creative writer . |
| 19 | It thinks , presumably , that it is good at everything it does . |
| 20 | The story goes that when the House of Commons was discussing this issue , a leading politician was heard to exclaim : ‘ If the Book of Common prayer was good enough for St Paul , it is good enough for me ! ‘ |
| 21 | It is good to know that God 's telephone never breaks down . |
| 22 | IT IS GOOD BUY TIME BUT DO N'T WAIT TOO LONG |
| 23 | This is an approach to gardening which looks good because it is good , common sense . |
| 24 | The Rev. Arnold Thomas of Bristol told Congregationalists that ‘ it is good to make beautiful our buildings and services . |
| 25 | It is good public relations . |
| 26 | It is good for vegetarian recipes , too , and the pudding collection is inspiring — try the first gooseberries of the year with a saffron honey custard , for instance . |
| 27 | Some say it is good for the Prime Minister to mix with the crowd and others that for a Prime Minister it is less than dignified . |
| 28 | AFTER a dismal start to the new Stratford season with Bill Alexander 's glum staging of The Taming of the Shrew , it is good to report that the RSC has quickly recovered its form with a splendidly enjoyable production of The Beggar 's Opera . |
| 29 | Still , it is good to see him at all , and I suspect his performance in Reflected Glory will linger in the memory … |
| 30 | It is good for a child to broaden his outlook and mix with children who do n't share his advantages . ’ |