Example sentences of "for a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 2 | They are prepared to pay a little more for a better quality of service . |
| 3 | THE £33m management buyout by Fenchurch Insurance Group from GPG has been completed despite pressure for a better price from GPG shareholders including Robert Maxwell . |
| 4 | Later she also campaigned for a better understanding of anorexia . |
| 5 | Ten years ago they formed themselves into the Hargeisa Group to lobby the government for a better deal for the north . |
| 6 | It destroys hope for a better life . |
| 7 | Larkins , who made 103 before retiring to give his team-mates a bat , could not have wished for a better comeback , and with Robin Smith making a stylish 70 , England made 263 for four from 50 overs . |
| 8 | On our side of the road , where the water is within a metre of the gravel edge , the phalaropes have come within spitting distance for a better look . |
| 9 | He looked puzzled and for a better description . |
| 10 | Because Save the Children want to lay the foundations for a better future . |
| 11 | The Prince could not have hoped for a better platform . |
| 12 | Rail fares have been rising at around 1 ½ per cent over inflation in recent years and the new corporate plan also warns that BR has 12 months to assess whether passengers would pay even more for a better service . |
| 13 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
| 14 | The new manifesto , with its lists of promises for a better urban environment and less-congested transport system , enjoyed a good reception — including a laudatory front-page endorsement from London 's only daily newspaper , the strongly anti-Labour Evening Standard . |
| 15 | Looking for a better bet |
| 16 | We should not abandon the search for a better way of determining pay for all health service staff . |
| 17 | It is not love if it is locked up in the vaults of our dreams for a better world and a happier life . |
| 18 | I had not seen Otley for some time and climbed up on the wall for a better view . |
| 19 | Carl Llewellyn , 26 , was having his third ride in the Grand National and could never have hoped for a better experience around the huge Aintree fences . |
| 20 | The underlying assumption ( or , more accurately , hypothesis ) of this paper is that client participation makes for a better social work intervention , and thus the higher the degree of client participation the more effective the intervention will be ( Kurzman and Solomon , 1970 ; Freedberg , 1989 ; York , 1989 ) . |
| 21 | If she is lucky she may find that at least a few children appreciate that ( 4 ) makes for a better drama game than ( 3 ) , and that ( 1 ) is so bland that it does n't feel like a game at all ! |
| 22 | But if you want real change , if you long for a better future for yourself , your family , your community and your country , then read on . |
| 23 | We will set four new standards for a better service to : |
| 24 | Fit the 7.50x 16 as fitted to 110 for a better ride and tyre life from the radial tyres . |
| 25 | Motivated by a desire for a better life , rural populations have migrated to urban areas and the resulting expansion of cities has meant problems of shelter and employment . |
| 26 | Activities drawing together staff and governors from several schools reduce the tendency for cut throat competition and encourages collaboration in joint policies and alliances to bring pressure on resource providers for a better service . |
| 27 | The first was an accelerated attempt to broaden the focus of the family planning programme to include the broader concept of family welfare planning — an ingenious verbal massage of an increasingly tarnished image , but one which did acknowledge the need for a better delivery system for family health including better preventative medicine , pre- and post-puerperal care and advice on household hygiene which would lower infant mortality rates and improve the health of the family . |
| 28 | There was sand everywhere between the knee-high crags , so I climbed on one of them for a better view . |
| 29 | Have you ever paid a little more for a better seat at the theatre , and thus enjoyed a far more memorable evening ? |
| 30 | In most cases the reasonable answer will be along the lines that those people who give information for the survey will be contributing to an overall study , the results of which will be useful for a better understanding by everyone of the general problem and will also particularly help specialists who might be interested in ( in this case ) the housewife 's day . |