Example sentences of "[prep] be good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somewhere in between are good plants for small gardens , only reaching about 2ft with a far daintier habit . |
| 2 | What there is a shortage of is good propositions which are realistically priced and properly thought through and presented . |
| 3 | What I am interested in is good scripts . |
| 4 | A peppercorn does not cease to be good consideration if it is established that the promisee does not like pepper and will throw away the corn . |
| 5 | All of us as women have the right and and the ability to give birth , that is if we can , there 's nothing , er , medically wrong with us but then added to that there are those who have the ability to be good mothers , un unfortunately I do n't happen to fall into that category . |
| 6 | Teachers who have an enthusiasm and enjoyment for spoken and written language , and a care for it , have pupils who are likely to be good spellers . |
| 7 | ‘ Those people are supposed to be good riders , are n't they ? |
| 8 | Claystones and siltstones containing finely dispersed coaly matter are considered to be good sources — besides many coal seams . |
| 9 | but no , use that erm bottle stuff we 've got , we dilute , it 's supposed to be good stuff , you 're suppose to get the same quality out of it as , out of that and it 's cheaper we okay for glasses ? |
| 10 | Although the MECs are often influential bodies and have a valuable information role , they are not typically felt to be good decision-making bodies enabling doctors to make prompt and positive contributions to management . |
| 11 | Max Jacob and Modigliani were always assumed to be good friends ; they had a great deal in common . |
| 12 | ‘ His last words to me were ‘ Is that all we are going to be good friends ? ’ . |
| 13 | People who are used to having responsible jobs at home or in the office and who are known to be good managers and organizers can not understand why suddenly the simplest task seems to be beyond them , and this makes them feel out of control and very unsafe . |
| 14 | Media is one of the best documented jobs around , but as well as being able to assimilate all these facts and figures , media people need to be good mixers , good talkers and skilled negotiators . |
| 15 | Why does he not convince the Cabinet to be good Europeans and to obey the rules like France , Germany and Spain ? |
| 16 | It was supposed to be good whisky , but the thin layer of dust in the bottom of all the cups did n't improve the taste any . |
| 17 | He is not convinced that having read them aspiring managers can go away and teach themselves to be good leaders . |
| 18 | When you 're giving feedback to people , yes , there were going to bad things about what they 've done , yes , there 's going to be good things , but if you can catch the bad things between two good things , even if the good things are just saying thank you , they 're going to go away with a bigger smile on their face , and probably feel more motivated for the next time they do that task . |
| 19 | The long list of grams tended to allow candidate strings that an average reader would not accept as real words , so there appears to be good evidence for restricting the dictionary . |
| 20 | I confess that in spite of the many negative sides I can see to you I would have expected you to be good management material . ’ |
| 21 | The image of God as a cosmic gambler can also be found in Brunain , where a simple peasant and his wife find God to be good doublere , " doubler " , giving them a second beast when they naively give their own cow to the priest who has told them that God repays gifts twofold . |
| 22 | Palatine consider themselves to be good employers , though their attitudes and practices might be thought to be slightly old-fashioned and paternalistic in that there is no measure of staff performance or formal mechanisms or procedures for staff management . |
| 23 | ‘ Sally used to be good mates with Zaria , did n't she ? ’ |
| 24 | They 're supposed to be good actors , are n't they ? |
| 25 | I work in erm family conciliation and lots of parents actually manage to stay parents and to be good parents to their children , but they do n't actually live together as parents . |
| 26 | ‘ They sure need to be good boys , being so hard up . |
| 27 | And having earned more and kept more we needed to be good housekeepers . |
| 28 | We used to be good enemies , that great prince and I , but somehow the enmity 's grown cool of late . |
| 29 | For TV , he or she will have to analyse the scheduled programmes both of ITV and BBC to determine which ITV programmes appear to be good buys , and which will be poor ones , in relation to the rate card . |
| 30 | This proposition is illustrated and supported by Scotson v. Pegg ( supra ) which their Lordships consider to be good law . ’ |