Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've been given a better education , a longer and healthier life and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 2 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
| 3 | As it is , having escaped this poisoned chalice and been given a good excuse to get rid of a woefully implausible leader , it is still very much in business to fight another day . |
| 4 | Marxism and Existentialism have exercised the greatest influence upon theology , while in addition the general question of how far theology should permit itself to be influenced by philosophy has also been given a good deal of attention . |
| 5 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
| 6 | Incidentally , I 've been using a better copy of PagePlus 2 ( due to be launched in March ) and I have to say I 'm very impressed . |
| 7 | Monitoring of people moved from Friern Hospital in north London and Claybury Hospital in Essex shows that they are not slipping out of the system and are enjoying a better quality of life with greater independence and a more varied social life . |
| 8 | People moved from Friern Hospital in north London are enjoying a better quality of life with greater independence and a more varied social life |
| 9 | Governors at Bowesfield Lane Primary , Stockton , are demanding a better service after repeatedly complaining to Cleveland County Council Education Authority about the standard of cleanliness at the school . |
| 10 | There is no need to become over-anxious about the subject of diet for the elderly.We simply need to keep a careful eye on things , to see that they are eating a good variety of food which includes plenty of protein , dairy products and fresh fruit and vegetables , together with some roughage , which is often best taken in the form of a bran cereal , and which will , in many cases , completely eliminate the problem of constipation and ease that of piles . |
| 11 | Certainly , if you are eating a good diet , not smoking cigarettes , consuming little alcohol , are physically and mentally well , aged between 18 and 65 years , and not pregnant or breast-feeding , then you should not need any nutritional supplements . |
| 12 | ‘ I have been proud of the way we have played in England and believe we are becoming a better team with every game . |
| 13 | I suggest , General , that if we are to secure a good working relationship , such remarks could be kept to a minimum ? ’ |
| 14 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
| 15 | This is because a major aim of public sector housing policy has been to provide a good standard of accommodation usually for the less well-to-do who can not or do not wish to buy their own homes . |
| 16 | Both of these railways have been most co-operative and we are developing a good relationship with them to mutual advantage . |
| 17 | By getting used to eating oranges rather than drinking orange juice , eating apples rather than drinking apple juice , and so on , you are establishing a good habit which will help to control your weight in the future . |
| 18 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
| 19 | ‘ We are forming a good team , everyone is friendly and we are confident of success . ’ |
| 20 | It means that , by a certain amount of fairly skilful organization over the year , you 're meeting a good cross-section of senior and middle management . |
| 21 | They 're doin' a good job all round . |
| 22 | How do you know you 're getting a good workout ? |
| 23 | Just to go back a stage , to a comment you made there , you you did say that the inner relief road on one of the routes , on one of those routes , would in fact enable environmental benefits to be felt elsewhere in the town , simply because you 're getting a better distribution of the traffic . |
| 24 | ‘ Not too far when you 're having a good time . |
| 25 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
| 26 | We 're having a good time . |
| 27 | He says they 're having a good time . |
| 28 | He 's taking her out for meals and they 're having a good time together you know . |
| 29 | I mean , , but I 'd really , seriously wished I had said to the waiter , but obviously we 're having a good time . |
| 30 | But but no , you used to think they 're doing , you 're doing a good service are n't you ? |