Example sentences of "good [noun sg] more " in BNC.
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| 1 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
| 2 | He got Svidrigailov 's nightmare past the censor , and there is a good deal more to that horror than I have quoted ; and ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ could have been got past him too . |
| 3 | There is a good deal more to say , and to think about , concerning the relations between the intra- and extra-mural teaching of literature . |
| 4 | This is the same reader who , having decided that the ‘ Envoi ’ is ‘ literary , in a limiting sense ’ , is provoked by the word ‘ magic ’ in the middle stanza into deciding that ‘ the term ‘ literary ’ becomes a good deal more limiting , for the term ‘ aesthetic ’ rises to our lips , and so , perhaps , does ‘ American ’ ' And there we have it ! |
| 5 | At £55 , it is a good deal more expensive than a ticket on the high-speed train which runs just below the bridge . |
| 6 | But another lesson I have learnt has been a good deal more unsettling . |
| 7 | Callinicos is able to set the claims of such postmodern advocates as Charles Jencks and Linda Hutcheon against an analysis of Modernism ( predicated largely on that of Eugene Lunn ) in order to demonstrate that the latter is a good deal more complex in respect of its characteristic conceptions of the subject , expression , reflexion etc , than the former are wont to have it . |
| 8 | Ultimately , though , a ship with no rotating parts in its engine room should be not only quieter , smoother and more efficient than a conventional vessel , but a good deal more reliable as well . |
| 9 | ‘ And , ’ she went on , gathering more courage , ‘ it 's a good deal more comfortable than the launderette . ’ |
| 10 | Miss Hawarth likewise procured several paying guests , moving Wilson to declare she could not imagine why any lady would wish to lodge in her poorly decorated and furnished house when they might find themselves a place a good deal more attractive and comfortable . |
| 11 | But there is a good deal more to him than that , as a new exhibition at Oxford 's Museum of Modern Art reveals . |
| 12 | But it was a good deal more surprising to find that class patterns were not more obvious . |
| 13 | This Chinese water-wheel clock was not only quite different from , but was a good deal more accurate than , the first European mechanical clocks and in this respect may not have been surpassed until after the introduction of the pendulum clock in the seventeenth century . |
| 14 | I said , a good deal more calmly than I felt . |
| 15 | It should be stated , however , that what the carers actually said was a good deal more complex than a simple preference for institutional care . |
| 16 | Clarke writes a good deal more intelligently — and entertainingly — than many who prattle on about the future . |
| 17 | The climate is a good deal more hospitable than many parts of Britain . |
| 18 | Milk in returnable bottles is aesthetically pleasing , safer and a good deal more environmentally friendly than in cartons . |
| 19 | Behind the tarpaulin there were tables and chairs for the RCM workers , mostly , as an American journalist noticed , elegantly turned-out young ladies who looked ‘ a good deal more like a junior league committee getting together to discuss a costume ball than officials waiting to sort out a trainload of Jewish refugee children ’ . |
| 20 | She decided he was a good deal more accomplished than the people he served . |
| 21 | In sum then , though the Supplement has a good deal more to commend it than its 1977 parent , it comes across as a car-orientated guide , static in outlook and narrow-minded in perspective . |
| 22 | In seeking to solve this second problem of semantic exactitude , he not only fails to solve the problem of making meanings plain to the public but actually makes that problem a good deal more complex . |
| 23 | No use pretending the Cross Ns are as cool as fabric boots , but I bet they will be a good deal more durable . |
| 24 | This is a good deal more difficult than it sounds , as small pieces of fluff and hairs always seem to appear from thin air by the million and float down on to the glass ! |
| 25 | Reducing this to one fifth still leaves a potential strength of between 2 and 4 per cent of E , which is roughly what is achieved in practice in fibre-glass and is a good deal more than one can reach , keeping a safe amount of toughness , with the metallic ductility mechanism ( Chapter 9 ) . |
| 26 | As we shall see in the next chapter , the consequence of this stiffness is that timber has had to evolve a work of fracture mechanism which is quite different and a good deal more ingenious . |
| 27 | What is more , they have said that there is a good deal more to noticing that things are white , and calling them ‘ white ’ , than one would suppose . |
| 28 | This is because the connection between a person 's everyday experience and his conceptual background is usually a good deal more tenuous than that between , say , his everyday experience of the weather and his belief that August is a wetter month than July . |
| 29 | Though the definition of infallibility was a good deal more circumscribed than often presented , Vatican I did what its promoters had asked of it . |
| 30 | But they were a good deal more important at a symbolic level . |