Example sentences of "be [pers pn] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Well am I a good son ?
2 Are you a better skier ? ’
3 Head : ‘ No , how far are you a better teacher ? ’
4 Are you a good farmer , too ? ’
5 No touch are you a good boy .
6 He 's beautiful good boy yeah are you a good boy ?
7 Are you a good neighbour ?
8 ‘ Well , Jane Eyre , ’ said the stranger heavily , ‘ and are you a good child ? ’
9 ‘ And are you a good fighter ? ’
10 Are you a good listener ?
11 Are you a good listener ?
12 Are you a good team member , a sociable person ?
13 Why are they a good selling point ?
14 Were you a good girl ?
15 Were you a good parlourmaid , Sally-Anne ? ’ he enquired gently .
16 Oh well , it depends how things turn out — we 'll see — soon enough — is it a good idea to go there or not ?
17 If asked to ‘ zip me up ’ by a drysuit diver , why is it a good idea to offer him the loop of the closed zip afterwards ?
18 Is it a good idea to fix some ?
19 Is it a good idea for DEC to boast that its VAX 6310s were the ‘ workhorses ’ of the British Broadcasting Corporation 's electoral analysis machine when the BBC 's predictions of the UK election result last week — along with just about the entire market research industry — turned out to be so wide of the mark ?
20 Is it a good idea ? 3.7 .
21 But is it a good idea to break the punctuation rule , even for such a reason ?
22 And erm on page thirty six , on two , is it a good idea because has a dreadful bend and I 'm really in favour of this .
23 I shall be asking him questions such as ‘ Is it a good idea for parents to encourage their children to become interested in science by buying them toys , such as a chemistry sets , for Christmas ’ .
24 We talked earlier about amateur British people and we talked about amateur British magistrates and I 'm a , an amateur British magistrate , but the question that I 'm going to put next was put by a colleague of mine , who has preferred to remain anonymous , and that is , it 's proposed to fine motorists on the spot for minor offencmes in this country in the near future , and the question is , ‘ Does this system apply in other European countries , and is it a good system ? ’
25 Is it a good hotel ? ’
26 ‘ And is it a good job ? ’
27 Is it a good job ? ’
28 Is it a good morning ? ’
29 Is it a good microphone ?
30 Is it a good party ? ’
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