Example sentences of "[pers pn] be good [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would Mrs agree that the resources argument that she 's just used is completely fallacious and would she not accept er that it 's better to spend fifty thousand pounds |
| 2 | I 'll recruit somebody to help me service my client bank , because it 's better to have fifty percent of something than fifty percent of nothing . |
| 3 | It 's better to sail two oblique courses to get down there but this if you choose where to gybe to reach your goal point . |
| 4 | ‘ And it 's good to know one member of that family has a conscience . |
| 5 | It is good to see one or two new authors names , while some publishers , Longman for example , are wheeling out titles from all the big names — Alexander , Abbs , O'Neill , Harmer — in an attempt to maintain any gains in market share made by the success of Intermediate Matters , Upper Intermediate Matters , and , to a lesser extent , Beginners Choice . |
| 6 | With such a range of wonderful music , it is good to have two complete cycles of the string quartets on disc and both recorded by British Quartets . |
| 7 | On shallow swims it is better to sink two rigid poles ( scaffolding poles are ideal ) , for with any rope-anchored system there is always a certain amount of swinging , especially when there is a strong wind . |
| 8 | It is interesting that the Minister believes that could have a damaging impact on the quality of bids and that it is better to receive one bid that represents management and employees . |
| 9 | If it is particularly important to record the language of two or more people in a group ( for example , a teacher and a pupil in a classroom ) , then it is better to use two radio microphones transmitting on different frequencies and with the two signals fed through a sound mixer before being recorded . |
| 10 | It is better to do one or two and then opt for more sensible distances . ’ |
| 11 | The weighted average capacity factor apportions a higher figure to better performance from bigger reactors , since it is better to produce 85 per cent of the rated output from an 800 MW power station than the same fraction from a 400 MW station . |
| 12 | Larger families represent an unacceptable burden on the state or , worse still , may become enemies of society : " All intelligent Salvadoreans — men or women — ought to realize that in order to get on in life , it is better to have one well-trained child , than 5 or 10 who are a burden , or enemies of the society in which we live . |
| 13 | However , if control is very poor in spite of a satisfactory diet with a single daily dose of c.50 units of insulin , it is better to consider two injections rather than increasing the dose . |
| 14 | For basic ingredients it is best to buy one of the 40 pint size kits available from most home brewing shops or from branches of Boots . |
| 15 | There are several ways to save for school fees but whichever method you choose it is best to start eight to 10 years before the first child enters school . |
| 16 | ‘ My feeling — and Pam ( Ma Larkin ) , David ( Pa ) and Phillip ( Charley ) agreed — was that it was better to do four episodes really well than six halfheartedly . |
| 17 | Mm that 's what I mean , I y we found that with four , is even more so , what some people were strong on others were n't and it it worked round you know , if you picked your team right everybody would thought perhaps it was better to have one woman in the team or , you know , if you had four women |
| 18 | He and Tony got on well : they started arguing over whether it was better to have two bits of black pudding rather than two sausages in the terminal café , and when that battle was over they started another about who was going to have the window seat on the plane . |