Example sentences of "be [art] good [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Weekend conference and seminar and study group , doctoral dissertations , and communally compiled working papers toward another Annotated Index — we may agree , as I do , that in present historical conditions these are the best or the only ways of responding to the achievement of a very great , though of course imperfect , poet . |
| 2 | You are the best and most convincing appointment for London . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean he 'll keep saying The Smiths are the best and I 'll … ’ |
| 4 | We are the best and worst band in the world … that was in the same issue ! |
| 5 | Five years ago it was announced in a communique issued from Agriculture House that tomatoes which are smallish , about 7 to the pound , round , red all over , and firm are the best and command the highest prices . |
| 6 | The monuments in our care are the best and they have survived for specific reasons — yet they are only the tip the iceberg of our archaeological inheritance . |
| 7 | Now what we have to know is whether or not they are in fact getting these contracts because they are the best and the cheapest , or whether they are getting it because they have the best connections and they are paying the most money . |
| 8 | You 're no better than a Hitler . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It does n't matter how tall you are , if you ca n't get your feet off the ground , you 're no better than anyone else . |
| 10 | BRITAIN 'S big four banks received a heartfelt Christmas message from customers yesterday — you 're no better than Dickens 's Scrooge . |
| 11 | You 're no better than we are , even if you are stronger . |
| 12 | ‘ You 're no better than the reporters ! |
| 13 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 14 | And as for you , miss , ’ she said , rounding on Theda , ‘ you 're no better than you should be , just as I suspected at the outset . ’ |
| 15 | ( Ah , there goes my clerk , the clever little fool : ‘ You 're no better than Henry VIII ! ’ he cries . |
| 16 | Erm Amy said could you find out as soon as possible about your church person , erm , because she 's got to get somebody else if they 're no good and er Elsie 's going to find out . |
| 17 | Charles Williams had been a friend of T. S. Eliot , but Lewis 's distrust of Eliot had been implacable , and their first meeting in 1945 , at Williams 's instigation , had been no better than guarded , though they later joined as Anglicans in retranslating the Book of Common Prayer version of the Psalter . |
| 18 | The high correlation of bursts of rapid eye movements with intense dreaming tended to encourage early investigators in their impression that the eye movements were following the actions of 70–80 per cent of vivid dreams.19 However , when blind matches of EOG records with dream narratives have been made simply on the basis of written evidence and the polygraphic record , matching of reports to records has been no better than chance . |
| 19 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 20 | TWW , whatever its weaknesses , had been a good and caring company . |
| 21 | I know she is old and wo n't last forever , but she has been a good and loyal friend to me and I will stand by her . |
| 22 | He had always been a good and generous man . |
| 23 | ‘ It has been a good and very practical learning experience for the class . ’ |
| 24 | Come on no I am no better once I 've done the course , but |
| 25 | And if , because of that , you never want to see me again — because , after all , I am no better than Havvie ; I simply raped you in a different way — ’ And , having lapsed into complete incoherence , he fell silent , not knowing what to say , except to add humbly , ‘ I think that your father approves of my suit , but that is no matter . |
| 26 | And when the tailor and the little grey man were consuming the pie , whose warm smell filled the little house , the little grey man said , ‘ Otto was right , you are a good and honest man , and you care — for all the creatures in this place , leaving no one unattended and nothing undone . |
| 27 | You are a good and strong man . |
| 28 | It 's fine to pass Acts but even a good Act are no good if their parents are expected to care for the child without resources . |
| 29 | ‘ The treatments for lung cancer today are no better that they were when King George VI died of the disease 40 years ago . |
| 30 | If we forget these differences , then we are no better than the bullies who figure so prominently in this book . |