Example sentences of "[be] [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The last I heard was that he was to be given a good education at the public school which Sir Philip 's son was attending . |
| 2 | Earthworms obtained in this way should be given a good rinse immediately — but use of the dilute permanganate solution does not damage the lawn and the well rinsed earthworms are perfectly safe to feed to fish . |
| 3 | ‘ He said what I needed was throwing on the floor and to be given a good seeing to , ’ she told the Norwich hearing . |
| 4 | This is another spot which seems to be enjoying a good run of birds of prey for common buzzard and hen harrier were also there and on Saturday a red kite was seen . |
| 5 | However , the fact that the LEA has a no-redundancy policy would not , in itself , be considered a good reason for deducting the costs of dismissal from a school 's budget share . |
| 6 | The actor can play a different person each month and still be considered a good actor . |
| 7 | Athey , though having been exposed as a poor leader , could also , like Allan Lamb , be considered a good number two . |
| 8 | Tagliacozzo found that catalogue searchers were , " inclined to use proper names rather than other types of entry , even when the latter may be considered a better choice . " |
| 9 | The Tory candidate for Skipton and Ripon , Mr David Curry , must be employing a good getaway driver to meet his punishing campaign schedule . |
| 10 | For many there was a conviction that the post-war world must be made a better place , a view that recurred regularly over the next twenty years . |
| 11 | It did not worry me unduly because all that was needed would be to choose a good Chancellor of the Exchequer ; but Harold Wilson was not likely to miss a trick like that . |
| 12 | In general , the baby 's wishes had tended in the past to be suspect , and the mother had been expected to look for some non-permissible motive behind them , in the form either of dangerous ( probably erotic ) impulses or of a rebellious determination to dominate the mother-in either case , constant control of the child was called for , and only the baby who had submitted himself completely to the mother 's control could be called a good baby . |
| 13 | The penny share flourishes on the fallacy that if you get more shares for your money , you must be getting a better buy . |
| 14 | These parents may not be providing a good quality of interaction with their child and so demand a much higher level of therapeutic input . |
| 15 | I think that the changes in the health service are increasingly being understood to be welcome and to be providing a better health service for the future . |
| 16 | It sounds as if we could learn a great deal from Germany and Holland about , in the health service , erm because their systems by now by all statistical tests of mortality and illness and so on , seem to be doing a better job than ours . |
| 17 | But it is not enough to do a good job : our professional conduct committees must be seen to be doing a good job . |
| 18 | That way you can be seen to be doing a good job and will have more opportunity for improving your pay and possibly being promoted . |
| 19 | They seemed to be doing a good job . |
| 20 | You wo n't be doing a good thing either for yourself or your company . ’ |
| 21 | It could be having a good night 's sleep the night before , playing tennis or taking a sauna , losing weight or having a stiff drink just before you begin . |
| 22 | I mean , she seemed to be having a good time . |
| 23 | We 're supposed to be having a good time today ! ’ |
| 24 | An imaginative PRO or press officer will be thinking up new and useful angles for in-depth feature material suitable for specific programmes or publications and will be spending a good proportion of his or her time selling them . |
| 25 | I 'm sure he 's done his England career a load of good … he 'll be concidered a good footballer now he 's at Rovers ( even though he 'll be doing eaxctly what he was at Leeds ! ! ! ! |
| 26 | I knew Dawn 's talons would be finding a good grip on his scalp . |
| 27 | Sir Geraint was thought to be making a good recovery in hospital after suffering a minor heart attack at his home near Aberystwyth . |
| 28 | ‘ The boys do their best , but the girls seem to be making a better job of it ’ gave the impression that boys ca n't dance as well as girls . |
| 29 | ‘ The boys do their best , but the girls seem to be making a better job of it ’ gave the impression that boys ca n't dance as well as girls . |
| 30 | They make rotten toilet paper , and I do n't know what else to do with them , and , oh Nick ’ — she suddenly sat heavily beside me on the bed — ‘ you 're a good man and sometimes I think how nice it would be to have a good man in my life again . ’ |