Example sentences of "[vb pp] the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 2 | The end-of-year panic on discovering that other teachers had covered more had led to a general feeling that the quicker topics were completed the better . |
| 3 | If a terrorist group is operating in the area then the sooner they are stopped the better . ’ |
| 4 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 5 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 6 | These are the best teams in Wales and as such given the best chance — better , for sure , than Wales — of upsetting the New Zealanders . |
| 7 | A newspaper campaign to prevent breeding by some of the substandard individuals with whom society is saddled would be much more to the point than vapid maunderings about the welfare of a child who has been endowed with an almost perfect inheritance , and is being given the best possible care ! ’ |
| 8 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 9 | Our comprehensive range of services has been developed to make sure that your business is given the best possible start . |
| 10 | Lucky me — I reckon I was given the best of both worlds . |
| 11 | However , until that stage is reached , all we can do is to ensure that the animals whose flesh we devour are given the best possible lifestyle and are then despatched as quickly and painlessly as possible . |
| 12 | And if you are lucky enough to stumble upon a village show you will be warmly welcomed and given the best seats in the house — which might mean a patch of ground under the village banyan tree . |
| 13 | Once again the movies learnt that it was not only the wealthy and respectable who liked to think that they were being given the best . |
| 14 | ‘ I 've given the best years of my life , ’ he faltered , and was unable to say more . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 16 | At this vulnerable stage of their lives , they must be given the best possible food — a balanced diet including fresh vegetables , fruit , grains , fish and meat . ’ |
| 17 | Boys in those days they were always given the best education . |
| 18 | Do my right hon. and hon. Friends agree that if we are to have an effective Royal Air Force , it is essential that our pilots are given the best possible training , including training in operating at below the level of enemy radar ? |
| 19 | This would give Royalbion world-wide publicity and Sir Bryan had decreed that the foreign media should be given the best that Britain could provide . |
| 20 | In the future , the emphasis on studies of recurrence should , perhaps , be directed not at subjects who develop recurrent stones but at the significant percentage of patients who do not and who , given the best currently available information , may never do so . |
| 21 | He had absorbed enough knowledge of lighting in his career to know who was being given the best spots , and he fought all the time to get Therese pushed out when he was on stage . |
| 22 | NORTHERN Ireland butchers have been given the good news they can compete in a major English contest to find the country 's top sausage-maker . |
| 23 | Given the good will that exists between the copyright libraries , the Ordnance Survey and other interested parties such as the Public Record Office ( whose concern is with the digitised database as a public record ) a solution will almost certainly be found . |
| 24 | Middlesbrough whistler Jeff Winter has been given the good news that he has been promoted to the Football League middle for the start of next season a distinction held by only 90 referees in the whole of the country . |
| 25 | If further size analysis is to be undertaken the best procedure is to use two identical sub-samples . |
| 26 | The more one 's reasoning abilities are developed the better one 's anticipation of the syntax and vocabulary of English , and the greater the field independence then the better the performance in sign language tasks . |
| 27 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 28 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 29 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 30 | Mr Alan Bleasdale , author of the Channel Four serial GBH , which the four jurors say should have won the best serial prize , joined the row , saying he wanted to share the award . |