Example sentences of "good [adv] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The housing surely explains a great deal : neither good enough to promote happiness nor bad enough to produce hopelessness . |
| 2 | And how come he 's good enough to go the Sea Cadets but he 's not good enough to go college ? |
| 3 | And it was form good enough to persuade coach Fitzgerald and his advisors to change horses , so to speak , at scrum-half . |
| 4 | PP : Dr Wise , would you be good enough to examine Exhibit A ? |
| 5 | PP : Del , thank you for that incisive economic analysis , but now would you be good enough to examine Exhibit A ? |
| 6 | PP : Thank you , Mrs Aquino and , by the way , would you be good enough to examine Exhibit A ? |
| 7 | Would you please be good enough to arrange signature on behalf of Three Vee Ltd ? |
| 8 | It is not good enough to use language which blurs the sharp reality , as for example : ‘ the ultimate control of the Company is seen in law as residing with the owners or shareholder ’ as if to suggest that there is some other and valid way of seeing it , a way which may put the ultimate control , at least in part , elsewhere . |
| 9 | Lane 's total might already be good enough to win selection but he said : ‘ I still think I need another 25,000 points to be certain of getting into the team so I 'm not counting chickens . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I was utterly miserable , ’ she recalls , ‘ I was in the position where I could actually get work to a standard that was good enough to attract support but there were n't any funds . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ It may happen anyway — Portsmouth are good enough to get promotion this year and we 've had a number of really impressive wins . ’ |
| 12 | He looked good enough to pass muster , but not so valuable that his inevitable sacrifice to the god of political expediency on the altar of high culture was likely to bring tears . |
| 13 | Northern Ireland has never won the Home Internationals before but team manager Jim McGrory feels that this year 's selection is good enough to achieve success for the first time . |
| 14 | The book caused Robert Blatchford , editor of the socialist newspaper The Clarion , to write to Mr Carpenter in some concern : economic change had to come first , said Mr Blatchford , and it would therefore be better not to mention sex until after socialism had been achieved . |
| 15 | Similarly , if a director is thinking of selling the company in the near future , but continuing in the same employment thereafter , it might be better not to restrict salary . |
| 16 | I have no idea of the date when it started but erm and of course it er anyway , it 's better now thank goodness . |
| 17 | That I think gets us to the erm paper which I put down this morning , erm based upon erm primarily based upon that last erm graph , an and Graham 's best estimate of our likely out turn for this year , because they erm , in fact you 're , erm you 're reckoning that the erm , the number of complaints we receive by the thirty first of March next year , it 'll be four two fo four two , is your best seasonally adjusted guess . |
| 18 | He contemplated eating a meat pie at the stall by the church , but he had enough experience of phantom hunger at night to know that it would disappear of its own accord by morning and that it was best not to squander money on appeasing it . |
| 19 | She pulled on the red wool dressing-gown hastily , glad of its warmth as she tiptoed to the bathroom , doing her best not to wake Penry . |
| 20 | It is best not to carry money in Cairo at night . |
| 21 | There is little doubt that most non-Israeli Jews in the world are ‘ for Israel ’ , that most Armenians support the transfer of Nagorno-Karabakh from Azerbaijan to Armenia ; and that most Flemings do their best not to speak French . |
| 22 | Zell am See is like your best ever beach holiday , but with a lot of extras . |