Example sentences of "[adj] 's good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In sentencing him , Justice Kemal Bokhary said that the offences committed by Li had been " very serious indeed " but that he had taken into account the accused 's good record and his " contributions to the community in the past years " . |
| 2 | United 's good work continues . |
| 3 | ‘ That 's good stuff , ’ he acknowledged after he 'd had a deep draught . |
| 4 | Partial topic framework existing in a conversation between K ( 20+ , female , Edinburgh-resident , university student , … ) and J ( 60+ , male , Edinburgh-resident , retired , … ) in P Working Men 's Club , Edinburgh , … ) at T ( early evening , spring , 1976 , … ) mentioning ( J's three children — J ‘ s brothers — the schools they attended — the schools J attended — that J did badly at school — J left school at fourteen ) when K asks J what he did after he left school J : oh I done odd jobs like + paper boy + chemist 's shop worked in a chemist shop + and done two or three others+ and I finally started in the bricklaying + so I served my time as a bricklayer + K : that 's good money J : nowadays it is but in that + when my time was out it wasn't+ it was only three pounds nine a week + so + + K : my father was a stonemason and he started at home + and they were paid a halfpenny an hour extra for being left-handed + + |
| 5 | Within the existing topic framework , speaker K 's saying that 's good money is an example of speaking topically , for her , but , for speaker J , the time co-ordinate within the topic framework has been narrowed down by his preceding remarks . |
| 6 | Now that 's good money in anybody 's er |
| 7 | That 's good refurbishment , renovate , good lad , renovation |
| 8 | I knocked the guy out in my last fight in 20 seconds and that 's good promotion — but I do n't care for it . |
| 9 | back in about an hour and a half 's time so erm that 's good timing actually . |
| 10 | Erm I like doing water colour painting and I 've been on two holidays down in Cornwall and I 've done that and that 's very relaxing erm and it seems , you seem to forget about everything else , and that 's quite good fun er but erm obviously if it rains all your , all your colours get washed away , but that 's good fun . |
| 11 | Okay , so we 've been saying that , I mean clearly , I mean that , that 's good evidence to suggest that world trade in absolute terms in agricultural goods is , is increasing , but as a proportion of world trade erm , it 's er , we know , we know that , we know that it , it 's falling . |
| 12 | That 's good performance . |
| 13 | That 's good profit , ai n't it ? ’ she remarked cheekily . |
| 14 | ‘ That 's good coming from you . |
| 15 | Yeah , that 's good marketing |
| 16 | And , they may have one display displayed , but if you go to somewhere like a warehouse or distribution where you go round and pick up your you can go to a garden you 'll pick up a box that 's illustrating a Flymo lawn mower or something and , and it 'll , er they spend a lot of time and money on the packaging , but , a lot of people for pilferage reasons do n't illustrate and that 's good practise not to illustrate , from our point of view , what 's on the package . |
| 17 | That 's good news for pest control , and even better for gardeners whose interest spreads to birds , butterflies , bees and other creatures . |
| 18 | That 's good news for the millions of men and women in Britain who like the taste of wine , spirits or beer . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's good news , actually . ’ |
| 20 | That 's good news for the unions themselves , and probably for their members . |
| 21 | CHAMPION apprentice Darryll Holland is a winner again — and that 's good news for boss Barry Hills as well as his jockey . |
| 22 | That 's good news says Pyramid , because SNI is likely to get closer to it in the short term while these issues are being resolved , whatever the eventual outcome . |
| 23 | So that 's good news ! |
| 24 | The sexual pendulum has now swung back to a more central position , and that 's good news ! |
| 25 | So that 's good news . |
| 26 | There , that 's good news for you , is n't it ? ’ |
| 27 | ‘ That 's good news . ’ |
| 28 | That 's good news in itself , but it 's also good in that it provides a bedrock on which we can build sustainable recovery of output and and job creation . |
| 29 | Even that 's good news … even if she is the milk snatcher . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ That 's good news . |