Example sentences of "[noun] be a [adv] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | St Helens are a very good side , so are Castleford . |
| 2 | Social activities Provided that they do not stop you going to bed at the proper time , social activities are a very good way of adjusting to the new time zone , particularly if they enable you to spend time out-of-doors in natural daylight at the times recommended in Table 11.2 . |
| 3 | ‘ I feel our reports and accounts and annual review are a very good vehicle . |
| 4 | And that Ernie being a real good slaughterman , I mean , after Tuesday morning he 'd always have a bullock |
| 5 | I do n't think the public view of community arts is a very good one , do you ? |
| 6 | Cathodoluminescence is a much better way of detecting feldspars in fine sands and siltstones ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 7 | Mark Tinkler is a pretty good ball winner/tackler himself and may get the nod when he recovers from his injury . |
| 8 | As he laid out his instruments on squares of cloth like a surgeon , he said , ‘ You know , Pop , fishing 's a very good relaxant . |
| 9 | The water industry is a particularly good case to take , for it is a major industry ( bigger even than British Gas ) , and the particular problems associated with selling it off have often arisen in less acute form in earlier privatisations — eg the problem of how to regulate pricing , stimulate competition , and ensure adequate levels of future investment . |
| 10 | The pubs are a very good buy as you get a home and an investment for the price of a house . |
| 11 | MH : I like to travel and never go anywhere without a sketchbook , boats and harbours are a particularly good venue for me , I paint a lot of marine subjects , buildings , figures and industrial subjects as well as still life . |
| 12 | As the word spread that potatoes were a very good food to eat people 's reluctance to include potatoes in their diet was overcome and by the end of the 18th Century almost every country in Europe had accepted this knobbly brown tuber as part of their everyday diet . |
| 13 | No Zed 's a really good bloke when he 's sober . |
| 14 | The sun is a very good symbol and can be used to show the contrast in the tone between the stanzas . |
| 15 | Dr. Bonnard is a very good informant and he had no reason to invent anything . ’ |
| 16 | The sheer fact that they want to have a go , they want to improve ; they want to look at their work is a very good thing . |
| 17 | As for its meaning marriage … well , in fact I should think Giles is a pretty good catch for any girl — even a beautiful girl like you . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ I thought he would win today , getting a stone off Moment of Truth , but the second is a very good horse . |
| 19 | A plan is a very good way of addressing that but unless you can get a plan out in under five minutes , yeah , then it mi you might consider a better use of your time . |
| 20 | The inadequacy of nurse training in the past to equip nurses for these pressures and the consequences of pressurised decision-making is a very good reason in itself for reforming nurse education . |
| 21 | But Darwin was a much better biologist and thinker than most of those who have come after him . |
| 22 | I half-believed things people were saying and yet I also knew that Midnight Cowboy was a damn good project . ’ |
| 23 | At times it seemed a bit strange to have a university degree and be working so physically hard but in many ways those three years were a very good period . |
| 24 | Harold is a very good prime minister as far as taking the Cabinet goes . |
| 25 | Bruno then gave his view on the other two big heavyweight clashes coming up : ‘ Bowe is a very good boxer , strong , young and very confident and seeing his last fight I fancy him against Holyfield . |
| 26 | The displays are usually more energetic if the site is a particularly good one for snaring prey . |
| 27 | His lecture is a very good example , therefore , of " pragmatic ambivalence " ( Leech 1983 ) , conveying , on one level , an academic argument which is appropriate to the speech event , but on another level , a strongly political protest which is not , and which he may deny was intended if challenged . |
| 28 | I think Shutt is a very good player , and Im happy with that deal . |
| 29 | Does he agree that if the distribution of Government grant were seen to be fair , local residents would not only be able to assess the performance of local authorities but would begin to see that our new council tax is a far better deal than the uncosted return to the rates — or , even worse , the uncosted local income tax — proposed by the Opposition parties ? |
| 30 | ‘ Howard Wilkinson is a very good manager and a fine tactician but there are n't too many ways of stopping Durrant . ’ |