Example sentences of "be a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Social occasions are now more flexible , so that the bride or bride 's mother can speak if she so wishes , and sometimes the best man can be a best girl ! |
| 2 | It could well be a best seller . |
| 3 | I wish to be a good man and a Christian , but I am no Whig , no Reformist , no Republican . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't want to tell you your job , Brownlow , but if anyone can persuade my wife to come home , and be a good man in case of trouble , it 's him . |
| 5 | On the other hand , the man she had been wary of seeing , who had a bad reputation , who in her right mind she should never have got involved with , had turned out to be a good man underneath . |
| 6 | Jesus had had many interviews with people , we 've looked at some of them over these past few weeks , the time when he met with Nicademus , the religious leader , the time he went out of his way to meet with a woman of Semaria in her dyer need , the other occasion that we looked at er a week or so back when he called Anzakias from that tree of which he was hiding , last week his judge , pilot , but of all those interviews and as many others that we have n't looked at this surely must be one of the strangest as Jesus himself is in the process of dying and as he is dying he is confronted with another person who has a need , but Jesus your need is as greatest as any body elses , your pain , your suffering , your physical suffering was every bit of great as those around you , why be bothered with others is n't that so often our story , when we are in need we can forget all about other people , it does n't matter there need , its poor me , what about me , what about my need , what about my requirements , what about my suffering , but we see here how Jesus apart from any thing else deals with his own suffering , he deals with it by ministering to the needs of other people , and this surely then must be one of the most strange and one of the most interviews that our lord ever had when he was here on earth , with this dying thief , but he was more than a thief he was a er , he was a re a rebel , he was a terrorist or a freedom fighter depending on which way you wanted to look at it and he was dying for his crimes and he was n't alone because there there was this man we 've been talking about , there was Jesus and there was another one , another criminal on the other side and we find that this is all in keeping with what god had promised , all there in , in line with his prophecy way back in Iziah chapter fifty three , it tells us that he was numbered with the transgressors , that he died with sinful men with , with law breakers and here it is its happening right in front of the , the very eyes of the Jewish leaders and the jewish authorities our lords intention in coming into the world was to save men and women , to seek out and to save sinners , remember thirty odd years previous to this event the word had come , for Mary his mother , to Joseph , we will call his name Jesus because he will save his people from their sins and later on writing to Timothy the apostle Paul in the first chapter of the first book in verse fifteen he says it is a trust worthy statement deserving full acceptance that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners , this was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , that we can plan our life out and try and live up to his standards , he says I 've come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost and here in this incident as he himself is dying and is in physical pain and torment he is carrying out this very work , of seeking out and saving of those who will turn to him , those who will put their trust in him , he is saving the lost , and we see in a wonderful how great the compassion of Jesus was and is , in reaching out and rescuing those who are lost , here we see our lord suffering the most terrible agony and yet in the midst of his own sorrow and pain and , and torment he thinks of this dying thief and extends his grace and mercy to him . |
| 7 | According to Felipe you would be a good man to have on his side in a fight . ’ |
| 8 | He 'll be a good man to help the women . ’ |
| 9 | He 'd be a good man to have on your side — but as an enemy he 'd be more lethal than the Scorpion of his star-sign . |
| 10 | This was his purpose , this was his reason for coming into the world , not to be a good man , not to be a , er a great leader , not to give us some model that we can , you know , plan our life out and try and lie up to his standards , he says I have come to give my life as a ransom , I have come to save and to seek that which was lost . |
| 11 | For our purposes , as we shall see , the assumption of male dominance may be a good case in point . |
| 12 | There may often be a good case for conviction , and no deficiency of evidence , yet acquittal ensues because the prosecutor , acting without advice , is not sufficiently informed as to the precise nature of the proof required by law . |
| 13 | In addition to this kind of recording there may be a good case for producing your own teacher training materials , based on in-house recording . |
| 14 | On the other hand , as the business axis becomes increasingly successful , downstream and international , there will be a good case for disentangling the commercial business from the national liabilities and there is every reason to think that the business component could be privatised in some form as a coherent entity . |
| 15 | Given that there does not seem to be the same reluctance to imbibe proteins made from plants as there is to be using the proteins in the milk of Dr Ron James ' transgenic sheep or Scotgen 's ‘ humanised ’ mouse antibodies , there may be a good case for a local entrepreneur to transfer an Amazonian shaman 's technology to make a Scottish national wonder drug . |
| 16 | To be a good government officer you must be able to put up with these frustrations . |
| 17 | It would be a good day . |
| 18 | Tuesday 'd be a good day , I think . |
| 19 | It was going to be a good day . |
| 20 | A winning attitude will be one that says , ‘ Today is going to be a good day and I 'm going to achieve these things . ’ |
| 21 | The BBC and I finally bade each other goodnight at 6.30 , with what seemed to be a good day 's work on the cassettes . |
| 22 | Have you any ideas now what will be a good day for you next week and what will not be a good day ? |
| 23 | Have you any ideas now what will be a good day for you next week and what will not be a good day ? |
| 24 | I congratulated him , saying that I had no doubt it would be a good day for our foreign affairs but it was a sad day for British housing . |
| 25 | The older man smiled , showing crooked brown teeth , and said , ‘ Going to be a good day . ’ |
| 26 | A lot of local people have certainly er given generously so should be a good day 's racing . |
| 27 | ‘ I told you from the start when we arranged all this that today would n't be a good day , Rebecca . |
| 28 | ‘ 'Twill be a good day 's work if we can bring in this prize , lads . |
| 29 | It would be a good day 's work . |
| 30 | I appreciate that the hon. Member for Bolsover and the right hon. Members for Bethnal Green and Stepney ( Mr. Shore ) and for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) believe that that would be a good day 's work . |