Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And having earned more and kept more we needed to be good housekeepers . |
| 2 | Selling fifty or sixty issues a time proved to be good business . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | I wanted to be best man . |
| 5 | I said I wanted to be best man , I said I wanted a church wedding . |