Example sentences of "[prep] be good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | This proposition is illustrated and supported by Scotson v. Pegg ( supra ) which their Lordships consider to be good law . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Male Ventriloquism ’ was judged to be good work and discounted by the examiners as probably largely by Roland , which was doubly unjust , since he had refused to look at it , and did not agree with its central proposition , which was that Randolph Henry Ash neither liked nor understood women , that his female speakers were constructs of his own fear and aggression , that even the poem-cycle , Ask to Embla , was the work , not of love but of narcissism , the poet addressing his Anima . |
| 10 | Having been rare for many years doubles are now much more widely available and many are proving to be good garden plants . |
| 11 | All I can say to you is that if it is to be good news , it would give me more pleasure than I can say ; and if it is to be bad — I have gone through it , and Anne , and many others , and one does survive and go on , though you think you never will … |
| 12 | In some areas numbers have , in fact , returned to pest proportions — which has to be good news for the sportsman . |
| 13 | ‘ We are just hoping that it will turn out to be good news but I am terribly concerned for her . ’ |
| 14 | It 's a spanner in the works , and that 's got to be good news . ’ |
| 15 | And that has to be good news for backpackers keen to shave pounds off the weight in their rucksacks . |
| 16 | That has to be good news ! |
| 17 | But plenty of the money spent by the parties in those frantic few weeks of the election itself , particularly on newspaper advertisements , will be fresh funds — which has to be good news for the media and agencies . |
| 18 | This often sounds like the rap of a demented DJ : the way she moves has got to be good news , ca n't gel loose till I feel the juice — suck and spread , bitch , yeah bounce for me baby … |
| 19 | Having eight men from outside the continent in a race did not seem to me to be good business . |
| 20 | Whether human , environmental or financial risks are involved , prevention strategies are being shown to be good business . |
| 21 | Selling fifty or sixty issues a time proved to be good business . |
| 22 | The forgeries are said to be good quality copies . |
| 23 | It 's not enough for British products to be good value in terms of price — they must also match the standards of products from other countries in both performance and reliability . |
| 24 | Priced at £4.95 a bottle which when diluted equals 82p per usable litre , AirX is claimed to be good value , say the manufacturers , when compared to spending money on products that only mask smells . |
| 25 | Judgements of students are often made on the basis of the subjective values of teachers or ward staff , that is , on what is believed to be good practice . |
| 26 | There has to be good coal pillar support on either side and there has to be a competent roof . |
| 27 | So far as serious crime was concerned , three conditions had to be satisfied : the crime had to be really serious ; the normal methods of investigation had to have been tried and failed ; and there had to be good reason to believe that the interception would result in a conviction ( Birkett , 1957 ) . |
| 28 | There always has to be good reason ( which is not defined , but is a sort of distilled wisdom ) for undertaking a statutory enquiry ; it ca n't just be a fishing expedition . |
| 29 | There appears to me , for the purposes of the investigation referred to at 1 above , to be good reason to exercise the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the Act for the purpose of investigating the affairs of the persons under investigation . |
| 30 | In general , however , despite the fact that anachronisms do exist in the published text of the Kanunname , there seems to be good reason for supposing the provisions in it concerning the learned hierarchy to be basically genuine . |