Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] [be] [art] good " in BNC.

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1 ‘ The York race is boiling up to be a good looking contest which is great , ’ Kauntze said .
2 Many may have discovered that the trouble-free lifestyle they had planned has turned out to be a good bit less well-regulated and tidy than they had expected or intended it to be .
3 It turned out to be a good choice . ’
4 Whatever her intentions , he turned out to be a good old-fashioned liberal .
5 President Reagan 's Strategic Defense Initiative , announced in 1983 , has always been accompanied by a strong element of criticism of existing US nuclear policy , but it may turn out to be a good deal less than the promised means of freeing the world from the scourge of nuclear weaponry .
6 On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath .
7 They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity .
8 ‘ Could turn out to be a good thing , ’ he said approvingly .
9 They turned out to be a good power-rock band doomed by personality clashes and their own audacity .
10 Now on tornado the development costs erm I know , exceeded the original expectation by quite a considerable margin but the production costs were much less and overall , taking the two lots together , it turned out to be a good buy .
11 A parcel from London recently landed on my desk with what turns out to be the best analysis of it , Soviet History in the Gorbachev Revolution by Professor R W Davies of Birmingham University 's Centre for Russian and East European Studies ( Macmillan , hardback £29.50 , paperback £7.99 ) .
12 In fact , the way I had instinctively started to limp turned out to be the best : a short step on the left heel with the leg stiff and a long springing step on the right .
13 I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that .
14 ‘ I set out to be the best athlete Britain has ever known and I 've achieved that .
15 You may be a sign that avoids deep , dark and passionate waters but often what you most fear turns out to be the best thing for you .
16 March turned out to be the best of the six months with £5,438,860 of ‘ new money ’ being introduced .
17 Attack turned out to be the best form of defence and as long as we pushed and shoved as much as the opposition , everyone was happy .
18 Meanwhile for Carol 's pupils , the course fee may just turn out to be the best £7.50 their parents ever spent .
19 Objective : ‘ Courtaulds set out to be the best of its kind at what it does .
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