Example sentences of "[adv] be a good " in BNC.

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1 Nevertheless , around one in two Germans in both the American and the British Zones — and a percentage on the increase — thought that National Socialism had basically been a good idea , badly carried out , and were far more favourably disposed to it than to communism .
2 It has not necessarily been a good thing in all ways , and there has certainly been a downside .
3 D Goldstein of Staravia Ltd , Ascot , who has long been a good friend of the aircraft preservation movement , offered a range of instruments .
4 Gangsters have long been a good source of drama for the filmakers and there 's barely a star in Hollywood who has n't been ‘ mixed up ’ on screen with the mob at some point in his career .
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6 But now the Florida Disney is 20 years old , and so are a good many of its guests .
7 One , what is it , it 'd better be a good one
8 Now David that 's quite enough be a good boy
9 This is a play for two characters , Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen , the World War One poets , and it would obviously be a good thing to read some of their poetry as a background to performing this piece .
10 So be a good boy and remove the masking tape from your hamster 's mouth and zip up your little trousers . ’
11 So be a good chap and just look at the sights , do a little shopping , try to get to a football game … ’
12 On the positive side , perhaps a renewed interest in old school rap can only be a good thing .
13 I welcome the competition that Eric provides and that can only be a good thing for the club .
14 Foucault 's gesture , however , marks the radical scope of such an anti-essentialist project which exploits Plato 's admission that there can not only be a good copy but also a bad one ( phantasma ) — characteristic of the secondary representations of the poets .
15 As the head of science put it : I think once it gets off the ground and we have got the library and the integrated studies and study skills teaching in a central resource area for the whole school , I think then , people are going to have to start seriously appraising the way they teach and I think that can only be a good thing .
16 On the face of it , this could only be a good thing .
17 The dramatic reduction in complaints and , of course , the high value placed on the quality improvement itself can only be a good thing for the business . ’
18 It 's really good because management 's the same no matter where it is , but in the Health Service there are sometimes specific problems and this course is geared to people working in the Health Service and that can only be a good thing .
19 So were a good many others . ’
20 The graveyard especially is a good place to examine the strange and beautiful gravestones characteristic of old Basque burial grounds .
21 As all cause standardised mortality ratio is highly correlated with , and so is a good proxy for , chronic sickness it is not clear how much extra information the new census question will provide for mapping the distribution of health care need useful for resource allocation .
22 Inside is a good ballroom by Louis Montoyer .
23 Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 .
24 The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations .
25 It had not been a good day for liberal ideals .
26 It had not been a good day for the Magistrate .
27 Today has not been a good day .
28 ‘ That 's because it 's not been a good year , due to fluctuating temperatures . ’
29 No you 've not been a good boy ?
30 This latest news on the job front adds to what has already been a good year for the town . ’
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