Example sentences of "the good [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why is it , for example , that every single Trust employee above the level of gardener 's mate speaks with an exquisite Wykehamist accent of the kind rarely heard outside the better cavalry regiments ? |
| 2 | The Office for Fine Arts intends to keep only a few of the better works for itself . |
| 3 | When the greed factor of competition feeding is present the smaller fish will more readily take the easier to handle smaller baits giving the larger baits a little more time to intercept one of the better fish . |
| 4 | I want my bait to lie right in the labyrinth of roots , for this is where the better fish will be dining . |
| 5 | I must have been mad on the strength of one fish , going all out boilies but it was a double and I just had a feeling this was how the better fish might fall . |
| 6 | The better cod are taken from the sandbar when the water is coloured . |
| 7 | During 1991 , in consultation with Pat Twite , the decision was taken to change the direction of the award and use it to encourage museums and other organisations to strive for improvements in their respective fields and to align the award with the good works of the BAPC . |
| 8 | The distinctive characteristic of these writers was their belief in progress : the belief , in particular , that the system of international relations that had given rise to the First World War was capable of being transformed into a fundamentally more peaceful and just world order ; that under the impact of the awakening of democracy , the growth of the ‘ international mind ’ , the development of the League of Nations , the good works of men of peace or the enlightenment spread by their own teachings , it was in fact being transformed ; and that their responsibility as students of international relations was to assist this march of progress to overcome the ignorance , the prejudices , the ill-will , and the sinister interests that stood in its way . |
| 9 | His greatest passion was for spreading education , and the good works he did in this field were prodigious in number and scope ; he was instrumental in the work of the Day Continuation Schools , the London Schools ' Swimming Association , the London Shakespeare League , and the Men 's Institutes . |
| 10 | But the fact remained , the doctors were a different sort of person from the regular army officers ; they wanted to do the good works they did ; that they would have done it anyway , without being ordered , is my certain opinion . |
| 11 | The number of people to whom he is a friend , if not because he has met them but because they know of the good works that he has done not only in Britain but throughout the world , must run into many hundreds of thousands . |
| 12 | In addition there is the letter of Sidonius , a generation earlier , recording the good works of Chilperic I and his wife , and the high regard in which they were held by bishop Patiens . |
| 13 | That J&F Johnston find themselves in the Middle East at all is a testament to the good works of Scottish Trade International , the joint Scottish Enterprise/Scottish Office agency . |
| 14 | the foresters attach likewise the good folk of their demesne woods and lands , and amerce them grievously ; and the small folk they attach at their homes and in their enclosures and in their crofts among the towns . |
| 15 | The good folk of the Gorbals have been maligned for too long . |
| 16 | And , most attractive of all , we see that Norfolk has gained a new and glittering addition to its night class line-up , with the news that NICK CAVE is to share his knowledge of advanced badminton with the good folk of East Anglia . |
| 17 | ‘ Gabriel , when it comes to escorting the good folk up to Heaven , you point straight at the old dame . |
| 18 | I propose to broadcast on a world-wide scale , a message to the good folk of this fair planet . ’ |
| 19 | I had n't been to the dump for a while , and it was about time I went to see what the good folk of Porteneil had thrown out . |
| 20 | The success of the scheme depends absolutely on the co-operation of the public , and whether the good folk of Ulster would accept the extra work involved is open to question . |
| 21 | The good folk of Lanarkshire just can not get enough of the Italian favours she makes with sugar almonds and layers of lace . |
| 22 | Or your last option is to do what the good folk at the training agency have done , which is they claim that the today marker is not erm , sturdy enough , so they superglue the er , the two markers together , to make it thicker . |
| 23 | We were glad of the good fish my father brought for us to celebrate with . |
| 24 | ‘ But the problem about heroin is that the money is so good that even the good people do it ’ . |
| 25 | But the good people of Lyon should try . |
| 26 | And when they brew , they fell trees for their fuel in the woods of the good people without leave , to wit , oaks , maples , hazels and thorns , felling the best first , whereby the good people feel themselves aggrieved on account of the destruction of their woods . |
| 27 | And when they brew , they fell trees for their fuel in the woods of the good people without leave , to wit , oaks , maples , hazels and thorns , felling the best first , whereby the good people feel themselves aggrieved on account of the destruction of their woods . |
| 28 | Since the beginnings of the Glasgow Fair 1,000 years ago , the good people of Glasgow have been determined to enjoy themselves during the annual beanfeast . |
| 29 | Although it is true that the people of the Isle of Wight are about as related to the state of civilisation as the good people of rural Mississippi . |
| 30 | The good people of Maine opted for another candidate . |