Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The temptation for a band may be to say that there is too much hassle attached to gigging in the Soviet Union and to wait for better times . |
| 2 | So often in conditions races we see just a handful of runners competing for good prizemoney , a situation which has prompted a reduction in Pattern races from 139 to 101 in the 1990-91 season . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you think that she 'll let me stay for good ? |
| 4 | ‘ The idea is that he 's stopped for good . ’ |
| 5 | Psychotropic drugs should only be prescribed for good reasons . |
| 6 | But statistics do not necessarily make for good intelligence . |
| 7 | The NIMBY ( not in my back yard ) attitude , whether at home or abroad , does not make for good environmental policy . |
| 8 | Of course , only the bad stories are told ; obviously , the good ones do n't make for good copy . |
| 9 | Having read a lot of books does not make for good rock'n'roll lyrics — you end up with a band like XTC ; you might like them , sure , but that does n't make them rock'n'roll . |
| 10 | Good science does not necessarily make for good philosophy . |
| 11 | When it was first mooted that maybe a team of Tropical Plants staff would make for good television on Busman 's Holiday , several folk were keen to take part . |
| 12 | THERE was an article in The Times the other day which said that good spelling did not necessarily make for good writing . |
| 13 | Editing could make for better sound . |
| 14 | Hand-made panels do not necessarily make for better cars . |
| 15 | Exit trainee thespian to toilet for good cry for no obvious reason . |
| 16 | This ‘ step ’ is mirrored at the tip of the asymmetric headstock , and at the recess in the base of the body , with two straplock buttons either side of the base allowing for good free-standing stability . |
| 17 | By AD 70 , that fateful year of Roman conquest and banishment , the temple had fallen for good , and the classic priestly ritual was no more . |
| 18 | John Lydon — the punk nomenclature had been banished for good — remained contracted to Virgin with his new group , Public Image Ltd ( PIL ) , as did Paul Cook and Steve Jones , who recorded briefly under the name the Bollock Brothers . |
| 19 | Let this woman divorce and disappear for good . |
| 20 | When that forest goes , it goes for good , and it 's going fast . |
| 21 | It follows that , except in a case where either the common law or statute allows instant dismissal ( e.g. , for gross misconduct ) , a lecturer can only be dismissed for good cause after being given three months ' notice ( though the lecturer can terminate the agreement on three months ' notice without any reason being assigned ) . |
| 22 | The picaresque vitality of Richardson 's novel begins to wane early in the third volume ( a frequent fate of follow-ups ) and , as a theatre audience does not have the opportunity to plough through stodgy bits in their own time , we felt it made for better drama to kill Pamela ( in the novel she comes near to death ) before the dramatic conflict itself dies . |
| 23 | Women writers of the period as well as sympathetic men argued for better education as a means of improving the lot of women . |
| 24 | Primary elections are very popular with the television industry ; they make for good visuals , and they allow producers to focus ad infinitum on personalities rather than getting bogged down in the boring complexities of issues . |
| 25 | Without doubt dry days make for better ferreting but , on the other hand , there will be more rabbits underground during wet weather . |
| 26 | It was not to pass examinations and qualify for better wages , not to raise themselves into a higher social class — though these are respectable ambitions and no doubt many of those early students felt them — but to get at knowledge for its own sake because without it their existence would be less worth to them , that the working classes demanded education and got it . |
| 27 | I have pressed for better freight links , which is another argument , but we must start with a reasonably fast passenger link to Europe . |
| 28 | ‘ The government also believes , ’ said the Minister , that ‘ where farmers restrict their activities beyond the degree which could be regarded as good agricultural practice , they should be compensated . ’ |
| 29 | Nowadays it is merely regarded as good luck . |
| 30 | If they are mentioned , it is because they have been recommended and are generally regarded as good courses . |