Example sentences of "[verb] [adv prt] to a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That adds up to a good campaign in Labour 's view : no gaffes , lots of pictures , and a positive message delivered in controlled surroundings . |
| 2 | She thinks you suspect her and it seems to me that everything adds up to a good cause for her condition . ’ |
| 3 | It all adds up to a better deal , for your managers , your training budget and for effective corporate management development . |
| 4 | Fowler and Broad then got off to a good start with 90 for the first wicket before things began to go wrong . |
| 5 | Yet he got off to a good start against New Zealand , and no one in England could have been in any doubt that even without Lloyd around their heroes were in for a tough time . |
| 6 | If the one-day series was then to prove one-sided for years to come , at least it got off to a good start . |
| 7 | At Edgbaston , West Indies got off to a good start as the first wicket produced 34 runs in just six overs , but three fell cheaply and it was left to Logie and Hooper to make fifty apiece and give the innings its backbone . |
| 8 | Wednesday , 28th August , 1839 , the first day of the Tournament , got off to a good start with a bright sun shining from a clear blue sky and the temperature high . |
| 9 | SOUTHPORT Railway Centre 's summer programme got off to a good start at Easter with a ‘ Four days of steam ’ event . |
| 10 | The hotel got off to a good start . |
| 11 | In Scotland , sales at Thins got off to a good start in December , became tougher , then ended with a gallop . |
| 12 | The team got off to a good start on the general knowledge round , they then had to answer questions connected with local councillors ' work . |
| 13 | THE GUINNESS GOLFING Society 's season got off to a good start when 21 members took part in the Spring meeting at Burnham Beeches . |
| 14 | So , on Thursday evening their production got off to a good start with its sparse but effective scenery , sympathetic lighting and some remarkably good costuming . |
| 15 | The second half has got off to a good start , with slightly higher orders for October . |
| 16 | A small number of cooperatives and self-managed enterprises have got off to a good start . |
| 17 | You 've got off to a good start , Deirdra , so keep writing — and reading ! |
| 18 | They 've got off to a good start with a pair of eighteen carat gold and turquoise earrings donated by the Elizabeth Gage company of London . |
| 19 | WITTON Gilbert WMC members have got off to a good start with their appeal to provide two guide dogs for the blind . |
| 20 | Once I get on to a good thing I keep it going until I run out of luck . |
| 21 | That way , the conference gets off to a good start because people are raring to go and in the right frame of mind . |
| 22 | The book gets off to a good start and the first chapter is one of the most stimulating — though I do not necessarily agree with all of it . |
| 23 | We instantly felt the week was getting off to a good start , a feeling reinforced by waking up the following morning to new , slightly heavy snow . |
| 24 | They will in fact get off to a good start and produce that few more eggs , ( an added bonus ) . |
| 25 | With performances over the next couple of seasons helping to decide which club gains promotion to the All-Ireland League set-up , it is vital that clubs get off to a good start . |
| 26 | Often people will move up to a better word processor or spreadsheet , but will want to carry on using the other applications in their integrated package . |
| 27 | If you go along to a good quality golf course they have the score card a planner but they also have a little script that tells you about the hole . |
| 28 | The popularity is put down to a good flavour — with its tight creamy head it 's similar to Tetley 's — the lack of any other light bitters in Nicholson 's range that compete with it and a slight price advantage of around five pence . |
| 29 | In some areas , most notably the liturgical and the ecumenical , Rome did get off to a good start in providing directives of a sort that would carry confidence at least temporarily ; even here , however , there was the inherent problem that a body of directives implied the establishment of a stable state ( e.g. in ecumenical relations ) , while the reality was in fact necessarily more fluid . |
| 30 | Often they germinate well at this time of year , and will overwinter and get off to a good start next spring . |