Example sentences of "be the good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am the good shepherd , ’ he replied , ‘ not the hireling . |
| 2 | She heard them clinking , and she thought : ‘ I 'm here in these lovely gardens because I am the Best Child in the World . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I am standing to win because I believe I am the best candidate to lead the Labour Party to victory next time but also because it is imperative that we have a contest in which a proper debate can take place , ’ he added . |
| 4 | ‘ But the King says I am the best horseman in his army . |
| 5 | I , La Carlotta , I am the best opera singer in Paris . |
| 6 | In the circumstances I should have been the good daughter , studious and uninterested in boyfriends . |
| 7 | I was still not allowed out of doors , except on the lawn on fine days , and it must not have been the good luck of many ‘ fishy ’ characters to have had their letters posted by one of ‘ Their Lordships . ’ |
| 8 | I mean you could start by saying , ‘ Canborough has , has been well known for the number of grants it gives , you know , as , as the means of saying , ‘ Up to now we 've been the good people . ’ |
| 9 | Only when that has been fully experienced can the bereaved person take what had been the good parts of the lost relationship and find a new relationship into which those positive feelings can be renewed . |
| 10 | The opinion polls said that the Shadow Chancellor would have been the better man to defeat the Conservatives . |
| 11 | He added that Mr Kinnock would have been the better orator , but that he would have won on detail and facts . |
| 12 | Mason fears death might have been the better part , and asks Gray to contribute to the benefit on his behalf . |
| 13 | The sudden tenseness of his jaw suggested that discretion would have been the better part of valour , and so it should have been , if he had n't taunted her about her sexual uncertainty . |
| 14 | ‘ We 've played Bristol three times this season and they have been the better side each time . |
| 15 | I think you know it 's hard you g got to go with Leicester at the moment because they 're in the pole position and I have for my money been the better side but er Forest do look capable of snatching an equalizer . |
| 16 | Especially as we have been the better side 3 out of 4 matches . |
| 17 | It was all set up by , got the touch and gets the final touch with twenty four minutes gone and Notts deserve it , they 've been the better side in the early stages , but that will settle their nerves and give the Italians a little more to think about . |
| 18 | ‘ It should have been the best holiday of our lives but it was terrible , ’ said Deborah , also 24 . |
| 19 | It was a big house , at least four good bedrooms , and the garden must have been the best part of two acres . |
| 20 | But for O'Conor , one suspects , following Field 's flights of fancy have been the best part . |
| 21 | and the back well it must have been the best part of should think a third of an acre |
| 22 | They 've hardly been the best parents in the world , have they ? |
| 23 | It 's been the best weekend ever for one Town fan … |
| 24 | It 's been the best weekend ever for one Town fan … |
| 25 | Pavel knew that he 'd not been the best company but then , they had n't been treating this job as anything particularly special . |
| 26 | He could have been the best footballer in the world if he 'd have bothered turning up and stuff , ’ Gedge told Sounds . |
| 27 | Well presumably with , what we 're trying to do is create some sort of alternative family units , we do n't want , although , er , laudable what the youth service does , is , we would n't want , if they do n't want to plugged , clubbable together , if , if , if , if the , the unit could provide that , or provide alternatives to pick up the , the correlation between that and , and ordinary normal family unit , I would hope that that would have been the best way forward , erm , er , because often some youngsters are in this situation because they , they have n't found the , that sort of provision has been helpful for them . |
| 28 | But surely state intervention should have been the best way of achieving both goals ? |
| 29 | It had been the best day yet . |
| 30 | It should have been the best day of my career but it turned into a nightmare . ’ |