Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] [to-vb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Committee suggested that the Lord Chancellor should appoint chairmen and clearly favoured an increase in the use of lawyer chairmen principally because lawyers were considered to have a good grasp of principles of procedural fairness . |
| 2 | For he was employed by the LMS railway as a train guard , and guards were compelled to have a good knowledge of first-aid . |
| 3 | The standard way of exploring fur lead was by searching for veinstone pebbles in the becks of gills , and when enough of the veinstones were found to indicate a good deposit of lead-bearing ores a dam was built up above on the fell at the head of the beck . |
| 4 | Patients attending the cystic fibrosis clinic in Melbourne were found to have a good outlook with respect to employment and social life , and a study at the Brompton Hospital characterising clinical and social features of patients attending its cystic fibrosis clinic found a similarly good outlook . |
| 5 | They are a development of the system of weirs and flash locks where a stretch of water was impounded to provide a good depth of water to flush or ‘ flash ’ a boat along its way . |
| 6 | And tonight he was going to have a good time . |
| 7 | And he took me home , er he gave me a good talking to , and tell me dad , cos me , I nearly , I got a good hiding , was going to get a good hiding from me dad , until this policeman says , do n't worry , he says er , you wo n't hear anything about it . |
| 8 | He was believed to sleep a good deal and to groan occasionally . |
| 9 | The girl had been left without a chaperon and was determined to have a good time with some boys . |
| 10 | Moodie said afterwards : ‘ I was determined to get a good start which would take me clear of the pack . |