Example sentences of "[adv] it be good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose you were , but together it was good . |
| 2 | Basically it is good to have them , but you may never need them ! |
| 3 | ‘ It 's amazing what you learn and basically it 's good fun . |
| 4 | I ca n't see it as clearly as that — and perhaps it 's better not to see clearly — ’ |
| 5 | But perhaps it 's better if I tell the story . |
| 6 | ‘ Perhaps it 's better not to have any in the first place , ’ Merrill remarked idly , braking at a crossroads . |
| 7 | I think it 's unscientific , prejudicial and subjective to use it in a term that carries any kind of recommendation or erm disapprobation and er I think , I think one has to exercise caution in erm in the way you use tha tha that , that term , perhaps it 's better not to , not to use it at all . |
| 8 | We know that the Trojan War , you know erm , what 's described in the Iliad and the Odyssey to the kiddies and er all these Greek and Greek heroes , we know that war actually happened , but it happened an awful long time before these poems were written and er Freud 's view is that what happens in a culture is there 's some initial traumatic event like the French Revolution or Trojan War , there 's a period of latency during which it seems to be forgotten about and nothing very much happens anyway , and then at a later stage it comes back again , there 's a return of a repressed and er Freud erm Freud quotes one or two other examples , er of the same kind of thing and Mike 's example is a very good one albeit er perhaps it 's good because it 's so recent , so the point you 're making Mike is that are you saying that Freud 's analogy is , is credible where French history and even industrial relations is concerned that there was a trauma , the Revolution of seventeen eighty nine , there were latency periods and then this kept coming back from the repressed time and time again ? |
| 9 | ‘ Well , perhaps it 's best to think of it in these terms : the dog kicks the cat , the cat kicks the budgerigar . ’ |
| 10 | No , ’ Mrs McMahon answered herself sadly with a quick glance at her son , ‘ perhaps it 's best not . ’ |
| 11 | May it sometimes be better , from a utilitarian point of view , that people should not think as utilitarians ? perhaps it is best for the general happiness that people should believe that a certain obligation to keep promises holds independently of its effects on happiness ? |
| 12 | But perhaps it is best to take a few steps back and begin with the preliminary question : why an exhibition of the nude ? |
| 13 | Perhaps it is best to leave it there for a little longer . ’ |
| 14 | But perhaps it is better to avoid Rouen , the midday traffic going in and coming out is too much of a worry . |
| 15 | Perhaps it is better to say that it is a prima facie relationship which can be used for prescriptive advice to hold back investment unless the ‘ dog ’ management can establish an exceptional case . |
| 16 | Perhaps it is better , rather than roaming back into the recesses of geological time to consider the sudden and simultaneous extinctions that happened in Our geological yesterday . |
| 17 | I did not mean to say but perhaps it is better I should , therefore only remark that I will speak on the subject in my next , but do not suffer alarms on my account — I am in better health than I have been for years and I hope to get to Sydney and get comfortably settled in good time … ’ |
| 18 | Perhaps it is better that you are with a wardrobe . |
| 19 | She did not think it good , it was the first time she had played for weeks and the sounds she made disquieted her , but perhaps it was good enough for busking . |
| 20 | Perhaps it was better in the days when the stars were ripped off , fucked about , had no grip on their affairs . |
| 21 | If Hugh thought she knew everything perhaps it was better that he should think it . |
| 22 | He took a deep breath ; perhaps it was better this way . |
| 23 | Still , he thought with a shudder , perhaps it was better than falling into the hands of those negroes out there ! |
| 24 | Perhaps it was better that we did not meet ; the coin should n't be allowed to see its other side . |
| 25 | It was a fantasy , as he was himself , it had always been a fantasy , and perhaps it was better to keep it so . |
| 26 | Mm that 's what I mean , I y we found that with four , is even more so , what some people were strong on others were n't and it it worked round you know , if you picked your team right everybody would thought perhaps it was better to have one woman in the team or , you know , if you had four women |
| 27 | Perhaps it was best to look at it as just another step along life 's pavement . |
| 28 | She wished she had n't seen that , but perhaps it was best that she had . |
| 29 | And perhaps it was best . |
| 30 | I mean obviously it 's good for you as well cos you know er you know w , you know we 'll obviously put are appearing on Pebble Mill blah di blah di blah , er I was wondering if it was possib oh yeah that 's okay mate . |