Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually weight loss occurs despite a good diet , and in the final stages the person ceases to recognise the family or even the self in the mirror , loses bladder and bowel control , any capacity for self-care or ability to communicate in words . |
| 2 | A left-of-centre paper combining easy tabloid reading with heavyweight news coverage looked like a good bet . |
| 3 | The project document continues with a good deal of detail about the erosion works , areas to be covered by different treatments , and the expected benefits . |
| 4 | The numbers may partly be due to the reputation Switchboard enjoys as a good training ground for employment , mainly in the voluntary social services ( every time the organization manages to build up a core of daytime volunteers , half of them find jobs ) but the largest group of prospective volunteers are past callers , people who , having found the service useful , want to contribute to its continued existence . |
| 5 | The Exec Director paused for a good twenty seconds before continuing : ‘ Did they share any women , anything like that ? ’ |
| 6 | No effort is being spared to ensure that the 1,400 journalists and hundreds of European officials who are expected to invade the capital for the June summit depart with a good impression of Irish hospitality . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |