Example sentences of "[noun pl] get good " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he was that stiff-necked the old Baron , and Mr Louis , the present Baron , he 's the same , they could n't make it pay even when times got better . |
| 2 | I wish the London Times got better . |
| 3 | A headline , asked , ‘ Are animals getting better at avoiding extinction ? ’ |
| 4 | In Chile , they provide a source of protest against the military government ; in Bolivia , the miners , wives fought alongside their husbands to get better working conditions and pay ; Nicaraguan women have formed a distinct group within the Sandinista revolutionary movement ; and in Brazil , women 's groups have formed to protest at price rises in food and other essentials . |
| 5 | If a commitment to good schools and parental choice means anything it must mean encouraging good schools to get better and making it possible for parents to send their children there . |
| 6 | Hotel queen Leona Helmsley drew bigger crowds than some Broadway plays , and the periodic trials of corrupt city officials get better viewing ratings than some television sit-coms . |
| 7 | The district was quite prepared to " tweak the unit 's tail " by using competition at the margins to get better performance from its own acute hospital , and was aware that this would force the unit management to challenge its clinicians more forcefully than in the past . |
| 8 | Annie , now 41 , has a rare and lucky sense of times getting better , not worse . |
| 9 | From Dixons , we will hear that the company should retain its independence because its current trading woes are a product of a consumer squeeze over which it has no control and because it will make lots of money when times get better and we have more spare cash with which to buy new tellies , video recorders , fridges etc . |
| 10 | As Sarah 's stepmother , Susan Ferguson said : ‘ Things got better and better between them as the weeks passed by . |
| 11 | I mean i i if you could get in for a penny a week that was alright because when things got better you could build on a penny a week , you see ? |
| 12 | The the things got better . |
| 13 | Things got better , he even got commissioned to visit Hollywood and interview Rock Hudson , Milton Berle , Marlene Dietrich , and Marilyn Monroe . |
| 14 | It had been a long time living in a hole in the ground , let's hope things get better . |
| 15 | Things get better . |
| 16 | Turn left along the track and walk past the sewage plant ( things get better after this ! ) . |
| 17 | The best-case curve shows an accelerating optimism : things get better and better . |
| 18 | Here 's hoping that things get better at Liverpool : - ) |
| 19 | We want to look after our customers so that they will be around when things get better . ’ |
| 20 | Things like , well , riches and justice and freedom and large things like peace and large things like that you see , or just erm personal characteristics and subordinate good is something which when it goes up things get better and bad or an evil or a vice is something when it goes up things get worse . |
| 21 | Yet learning is the only way that things get better . |
| 22 | Then when things get better they might not be so keen to take them on again , which again will affect service . |
| 23 | ‘ I honestly think there is no sign of things getting better . |
| 24 | Ageing phobia , too , often dulls one to the very real prospect of things getting better as time goes on . |
| 25 | They are , in brief , hard-working and somewhat stressed ; feel dissatisfied with the job they are doing ( or at least bits of it ) ; confused about what they should be doing but wanting to change in the direction of greater impact and relevance of what they do ; have no clear idea how to go about it ; do not feel optimistic about things getting better ; are worried about the amount of emotional energy the job takes up ; and mostly do the best they can , try not to think about it all too much , and hang on till the holidays . |
| 26 | For there is one small drawback to things getting better and better all the time . |
| 27 | What do we mean by things getting better rather than worse ? |
| 28 | Since then the Debenham Players has most definitely grown in size and support , the productions get better each time but still the members run the whole thing by themselves be it from costume making and lighting to front of house and stage construction . |
| 29 | I clung hard to a sapling with my eyes closed , waiting for things to get better , telling myself that if I fell down again it would be much much much worse . |
| 30 | So for things to get better they had to get worse ; the worse they were the better they 'd be in the future ; they could n't even start to get better before they 'd started to go drastically downhill . |