Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [prep] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreigners , since the earliest times , have been required to live in special residential areas and have been treated with a good deal of suspicion and hostility by ordinary Russians as well as by government officials . |
| 2 | If the fit is not good then the parameters of the model are adjusted until a good match between real and simulated observations is found . |
| 3 | The covers were very worn , as if it had been travelled about a good deal , and on the fly leaf was written ‘ Journal 1841 ’ and then , in a different coloured ink , ‘ And 1842 ’ and then , below that , carefully , ‘ Emily Brent ’ . |
| 4 | The struggle to decipher has been presented as a good thing in itself , though construing sentences is not the same thing as achieving intellectual understanding . |
| 5 | Linguists may be found working in a range of national and international organizations where foreign language skills and knowledge of other cultures are seen as a good foundation for a career . |
| 6 | Australia will be favourites , but at least we are prepared for a good old battle . ’ |
| 7 | And once homeothermy had been accepted as a good working hypothesis , then other arguments relating to non-metabolic methods of heat control began to have more relevance . |
| 8 | In fact , the day before the I Love Lucy St Patrick 's Day , she 'd been told of a good job with the British Council in the Gilbert Islands . |
| 9 | In recent years , every new development and anniversary has been used as a good publicity platform for the Town and its tramway . |
| 10 | Babies are born with a good supply of chromium , but the level tends to fall as we get older . |
| 11 | Evaporation losses can be topped up with tapwater that has been dechlorinated with a good quality conditioner such as TetraPond AquaFin . |
| 12 | The Thatcher record since 1979 has been accompanied by a good deal of inflationary rhetoric from both supporters and critics . |
| 13 | Several of the calculations which produced low success rates could probably be undertaken with a good deal more success in the actual context concerned . |
| 14 | Repairs can be undertaken by a good skilled boot repairer , but if you have difficulty finding someone locally you can send your boots or shoes to Shoecare at Preston . |
| 15 | Wild fish can reach a length of 25cm but 15cm would be regarded as a good size in aquarium-raised fish . |
| 16 | Give-aways such as book matches , note pads , pens , pencils , diaries , calendars and stationery , can be regarded as a good investment if they promote the good image of the establishment . |
| 17 | When one recollects that bequests were made in the hope of securing the prayers of beneficiaries for the donor 's soul , it may be assumed that bridges , and also roads , were in sufficient use for such gifts to be regarded as a good piece of spiritual investment . |
| 18 | Until I hear from Bessie , or see for myself , that you are really trying to behave better , you can not be treated as a good , happy child , like my children . ’ |
| 19 | Traditionally tanned leathers will need to be treated with a good wax proofing agent to make them water resistant , although some leathers are now treated at the tanneries with special waterproof finishes . |
| 20 | For this reason , the band intensity should be considered as a good approximation of relative occupancy as long as the accumulative mole fraction of blocked transcripts is less than approximately 50% , otherwise sites further downstream are underestimated ( 10 ) . |
| 21 | So pragmatism can be rescued as a good explanation for our cross-section picture of adjudication only by procrustean machinery that seems wildly inappropriate . |
| 22 | At this stage in the fire 's development , sideways spread is not a problem and can easily be constrained by a good protective system . |
| 23 | It can also be recommended as a good source of material for student seminars and tutorials at both sixth form and undergraduate level . |
| 24 | The Peugeot can be recommended as a good buy , especially as it is electronic ( meaning the blade does n't jump when started ) and has the ‘ tri axial ’ facility which may be useful in tight corners . |
| 25 | What kinds of additions and modifications are to be permitted by a good scientific methodology and what kinds are to be ruled out as non-scientific ? |
| 26 | Whereas the diagnosis of early infectious syphilis can be made with a good degree of accuracy by identifying the treponeme with darkground examination of serum from a chancre or from the skin lesions of secondary infection , in latent or late syphilis , be it acquired or congenital , the diagnosis depends on the finding of antibodies to the infection in the blood . |
| 27 | At last , the dirty , happy , noisy child could be accepted as a good child . |
| 28 | The implications of this peculiar kind of vested interest , interest in one 's public image , for drama are probably obvious — the participant who wants to be seen as a good actor , for example . |
| 29 | Which could be seen as a good thing ; after all , in the eyes of sceptical guitarists the GR-1 could stand or fall on its immediate user-friendly appeal . |
| 30 | Another problem is that he does not deal with the fact that an ‘ intent to harm ’ may itself be ambiguous : in certain contexts , it may be seen as a good thing , in others as bad . |