Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BRITISH Rail has promised a better deal for Teesside travellers . |
| 2 | BRITISH Rail has promised a better deal for passengers with a new timetable shake-up to take effect from May . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This question of the benefit to be achieved from library activities has generated a good deal of literature , none of it very conclusive . |
| 5 | Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted . |
| 6 | She thinks the Board has done a good job and what would it be replaced with ? |
| 7 | The field needs to have a good supply of water . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In the past this Association has had a good relationship with the DLO in Derry . |
| 10 | A conference on AIDS has attracted a good response from businessmen in the Alton area . |
| 11 | The practical question which this paper also addresses is ‘ how can one tell when and whether a lawyer has done a good job ? ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Anyone who bought before the 1988 boom has seen a good return on their investment . |
| 14 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 15 | ‘ Ethnic ’ Scottish rock has had a good decade , something Adamson has mixed feelings about . |
| 16 | As nephew of the late king , Edward appeared to have a good claim , indeed perhaps the best claim , to succeed him . |
| 17 | If TI did produce a good underwriting result , one would question whether TI was taking on any risk ? |
| 18 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 19 | For various reasons the specific item search , into which the designers had put a good deal of effort , was less successful . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | He threw the hoe to the ground , hoped that at least the pig had had a good meal , and want back inside his church . |
| 23 | ‘ Ken 's got a good sense of humour . |
| 24 | So everyone working on the door at Ronnie 's had a good laugh at us while Strummer was hustling to get us in . |
| 25 | Since then the assumptions underpinning , and the meanings attributed to , census data have changed a good deal . |
| 26 | They reckon Lancastrians have got a good pint of Boddys . |
| 27 | And yet on the face of it , the inner route seemed to offer a better way of meeting the need than performing the functions that you seek for the relief road to perform in that part of Harrogate Knaresborough . |
| 28 | Thomas and Ell seemed to make a good couple . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |