Example sentences of "it to good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Architectural historians have already raided it to good effect , notably Mark Girouard for his book on the sixteenth-century architect Robert Smythson and Jill Lever , the curator of the collection , for the book she wrote with Margaret Richardson , The Art of the Architect . |
| 2 | Most of the money for the campaign has come from the central government and the United Nations , but it seems to be Marxist enthusiasm that has put it to good use . |
| 3 | Nuclear energy has become an important tool for plant breeders and Russian horticultural researchers have been putting it to good use in their iris-breeding programmes . |
| 4 | ‘ Bring what you will , poverty or reviling and with a wave of my wand I will turn it to good . |
| 5 | I came into a bit of money when my grandmother died and I decided to put it to good use . ’ |
| 6 | Mike Woodhead studied soil-science in Holland and put it to good use when he purchased his wine estate . |
| 7 | She is uninterested in fame ; she may attract it , however , and although she finds it annoying , she can turn it to good account for the work she is doing . |
| 8 | Write your answer on a postcard and send it to Good Food Competition , TODAY Features , 1 Virginia Street , London E1 9BS , to arrive by Monday November 9 . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've done some nursing and I want to put it to good use , ’ she added . |
| 10 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 11 | erm but there were er a small number of people who managed to make it to good old healthy seventies eighties . |
| 12 | With characteristic business acumen , the Swiss spas saw the renaissance of the classical water therapy on the way , beckoning all sections of society , and they have turned it to good account . |
| 13 | Then you can concentrate on using it to good effect . |
| 14 | " See you put it to good use . " |
| 15 | A Department of the Environment report on the condition of local authority housing in 1985 said that in England alone almost £19 billion needed to be spent to restore it to good condition . |
| 16 | The individual experiences of recovery are so varied and the learning opportunities so diverse that there is a general maxim , " Where you are is where you are meant to be " , which implies that one can learn from any experience and put it to good use in recovery . |
| 17 | She had a strong sense of the dramatic , and could use it to good effect when occasion demanded . |
| 18 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 19 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 20 | Secretary reports that he has already put it to good use . |
| 21 | For the past three years Brenda has been learning German at the Open Learning Centre on site and she puts it to good use on frequent trips abroad . |
| 22 | Wombles are fictitious animals from a TV series noted for their cleanliness , and for cleaning up litter and putting it to good use . |