Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days .
2 This question of the benefit to be achieved from library activities has generated a good deal of literature , none of it very conclusive .
3 She thinks the Board has done a good job and what would it be replaced with ?
4 The field needs to have a good supply of water .
5 So far the Finance Ministry has done a good job by letting off steam in a controlled and orderly way , but it is hard to stop the process of deflation once it has gained momentum .
6 In the past this Association has had a good relationship with the DLO in Derry .
7 A conference on AIDS has attracted a good response from businessmen in the Alton area .
8 The practical question which this paper also addresses is ‘ how can one tell when and whether a lawyer has done a good job ? ’ .
9 Finally , that a poet has written a good poem does not mean he or she is always capable of another , and to read Duck 's career as an arrested development may be sentimental .
10 Anyone who bought before the 1988 boom has seen a good return on their investment .
11 " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said .
12 ‘ Ethnic ’ Scottish rock has had a good decade , something Adamson has mixed feelings about .
13 Biddy tried to explain the good news to my sister , but the poor woman could not understand .
14 As nephew of the late king , Edward appeared to have a good claim , indeed perhaps the best claim , to succeed him .
15 If TI did produce a good underwriting result , one would question whether TI was taking on any risk ?
16 The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge .
17 For various reasons the specific item search , into which the designers had put a good deal of effort , was less successful .
18 Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen .
19 Andre Moga , the president of Beglès and one of the so-called ‘ barons ’ of French rugby , made the following comment : ‘ If Rodez had had a good president at the time this would not have reached court ’ .
20 He threw the hoe to the ground , hoped that at least the pig had had a good meal , and want back inside his church .
21 Ken 's got a good sense of humour .
22 So everyone working on the door at Ronnie 's had a good laugh at us while Strummer was hustling to get us in .
23 Since then the assumptions underpinning , and the meanings attributed to , census data have changed a good deal .
24 They reckon Lancastrians have got a good pint of Boddys .
25 Thomas and Ell seemed to make a good couple .
26 Loud , the Crunch channel reminded me of a tranny amp struggling to produce a good lead sound , while the lead channel lost its lush sustain and clear harmonics .
27 Fashanu , ignored since being capped twice by Bobby Robson three years ago , said : ‘ Alan has had a good start but that does n't put him in the class of Ian .
28 Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks .
29 Egypt 's nuclear power industry is still in the design phase , but according to Mr. Kandil , nuclear power was the only clean energy alternative for Egypt : ‘ If developed countries want to enjoy a good climate , they should give us these plants at lower cost .
30 Thus , open tipped tubes and intraluminal solid state pressure transducers appear to provide a good estimate of the amount and characteristics of contractile activity .
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