Example sentences of "be [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Besides being allowed to play mistress of this house for years , you 've been given a good allowance . |
2 | As it is , having escaped this poisoned chalice and been given a good excuse to get rid of a woefully implausible leader , it is still very much in business to fight another day . |
3 | Marxism and Existentialism have exercised the greatest influence upon theology , while in addition the general question of how far theology should permit itself to be influenced by philosophy has also been given a good deal of attention . |
4 | ‘ And I 've not been given a good reason for it . ’ |
5 | There is no need to become over-anxious about the subject of diet for the elderly.We simply need to keep a careful eye on things , to see that they are eating a good variety of food which includes plenty of protein , dairy products and fresh fruit and vegetables , together with some roughage , which is often best taken in the form of a bran cereal , and which will , in many cases , completely eliminate the problem of constipation and ease that of piles . |
6 | Certainly , if you are eating a good diet , not smoking cigarettes , consuming little alcohol , are physically and mentally well , aged between 18 and 65 years , and not pregnant or breast-feeding , then you should not need any nutritional supplements . |
7 | I suggest , General , that if we are to secure a good working relationship , such remarks could be kept to a minimum ? ’ |
8 | The single women who hitherto had been considered a good influence on the girls were relegated to obscurity whilst the married heterosexual women were left to emerge as the ( acceptable and healthy ) role models . |
9 | This is because a major aim of public sector housing policy has been to provide a good standard of accommodation usually for the less well-to-do who can not or do not wish to buy their own homes . |
10 | Both of these railways have been most co-operative and we are developing a good relationship with them to mutual advantage . |
11 | By getting used to eating oranges rather than drinking orange juice , eating apples rather than drinking apple juice , and so on , you are establishing a good habit which will help to control your weight in the future . |
12 | We might even have had a decent election and the country might have been saved a good deal earlier , but everyone knows that that is how we got here . |
13 | ‘ We are forming a good team , everyone is friendly and we are confident of success . ’ |
14 | It means that , by a certain amount of fairly skilful organization over the year , you 're meeting a good cross-section of senior and middle management . |
15 | They 're doin' a good job all round . |
16 | How do you know you 're getting a good workout ? |
17 | ‘ Not too far when you 're having a good time . |
18 | In America , as long as you 're having a good time right now , it 's valid ; if in the next century it 's all forgotten , then that 's okay too . |
19 | We 're having a good time . |
20 | He says they 're having a good time . |
21 | He 's taking her out for meals and they 're having a good time together you know . |
22 | I mean , , but I 'd really , seriously wished I had said to the waiter , but obviously we 're having a good time . |
23 | But but no , you used to think they 're doing , you 're doing a good service are n't you ? |
24 | It 's the only way they can go around harassing and criminalizing black kids and think they 're doing a good job . |
25 | But from what I can gather from his scrawls you 're doing a good job . ’ |
26 | So it 's easy for me to sit here and say , we think we 're doing a good job on the environment , because we 're not threatened , we do have to find ways round existing chemicals , we may have to pay , pay a higher price , but we 're not threatened in terms of the the core of our bottom line . |
27 | ‘ You 're doing a good job . ’ |
28 | Well I think I 've been rather more fortunate , the two branch managers I 've had er , before , I 'd not had long enough , er , both have given albeit not regular , but feedback both positive and negative , er , when you 're doing a good job and when you 're doing a bad job , and er , in all honesty , it 's probably the appraisal itself , that 's actually been unnecessary because of their feedback they 're given me during the year , because the appraisal is just a formal repetition of what 's already been said . |
29 | They me , they 're doing a good job ! |
30 | Oh you 're doing a good job there John . |