Example sentences of "good [coord] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some fundholders did switch hospitals for some specialties where they were promised a better or a cheaper service . |
| 2 | Now that has nothing to do about whether our children will get a better or a worse education if the school is opted out . |
| 3 | Do you think this sort of advertising is a good or a bad idea ? |
| 4 | I 'm not sure if this is a good or a bad thing , but the game 's got practically nothing to do with the Bullseye TV show . |
| 5 | Not that that 's necessarily a good or a bad thing . |
| 6 | Such research can only discover whether lawyers are doing a good or a bad job in terms of common sense criteria , themselves embedded in , if not derived from , the ideology of lawyers themselves . |
| 7 | The receipt of such a bonus has an effect far outside the regular annual rise , which again in the case of ICI is a matter of such Byzantine complexity that it is often difficult to know whether one is getting a good or a bad one ! |
| 8 | The broad-minded opinions and solid common sense of this robust story-teller are expressed sometimes in dialogue in which officers ( and , interestingly , sometimes officers and men ) exchange views on slave-trading , naval punishments , privateering , or discuss the attributes of a good or a bad captain . |
| 9 | You draw a line and you know at once whether it 's a good or a bad line . |
| 10 | ‘ There was a lack of a shared view about what the health service 's purpose was , and yet without that how can you know if you 've done a good or a bad job ? |
| 11 | Language work can also be covered through drama or role-play ( a speech by a Roman general encouraging the troops , an argument between a Celt and a Roman over whether the conquest of Britain was a good or a bad thing ) . |
| 12 | Is migration , just generally , is migration a good or a bad , bad thing ? |
| 13 | Is that a good or a bad thing ? |
| 14 | Do you have any thoughts as to whether it 's a good or a bad thing that food is produced artificially , as it were ? |
| 15 | Is that a good or a bad thing ? |
| 16 | You 'll do me more good nor a bucket o' medicine . |
| 17 | Like power , money as it stands is neither a good nor a bad commodity . |
| 18 | There is usually a better and a worse spot to stand and fight . |
| 19 | As far as output is concerned , some do particularly badly — producing outputs completely in the wrong ballpark ; some , however , are rather better and a few are really quite good . |
| 20 | The smallest detail can often be the difference between a good and a bad picture . |
| 21 | Front legroom is good and a tilt column means most people will get comfortable behind the wheel . |
| 22 | There was a slight flurry of falling snow , but the weather was good and a wintry moon was trying to break through the clouds . |
| 23 | Nellie was very good and a natural musician who could play without looking at the piano which meant she could watch the dancing at the same time . |
| 24 | ‘ And microphone placement is very important , ’ Bryan interjects , ‘ because if you take a speaker , the difference between the centre of the cone and the outside can vary the sound so drastically that an inch can make the difference between a good and a shit guitar sound . |
| 25 | On purgatory and prayers for the dead , the Articles were also ambivalent , since they admitted that : ‘ it is a very good and a charitable deed to pray for souls departed ’ , but made no claim that such prayers were efficacious and even questioned whether purgatory existed at all . |
| 26 | As Roth ( 1974 ) points out , the notion that only professions have subcultures is negated by the ‘ distinct and pervasive patterns of occupational life ’ found amongst dockers , seamen , miners , etc. ; prostitutes also claim that their service is a social good and a community service ; a lack of demarcation of work and leisure is equally true of policemen as of dockers ; and so on . |
| 27 | There is a decrease with age in the percentage describing their health as good and a rise in the percentage reporting poor health ( Figure 6.1 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ The response was again very good and a lively question and answer session told me that the students found the talk helpful , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Okay so I think that erm some of Mill 's system he has given us and accounted them a type of theory of democracy but seems to me deeply by between two ideas , one is that everyone will have a say in government and the other is they should n't be allowed decisive say if they are going to say the wrong thing so that on the one hand we have democratic equality of a source , on the other hand we have an independent theory of the good and a democratic process should be allowed to disrupt the good of the nation and Mill just does n't seem to be able to put these two elements in erm proper coherent fashion . |
| 30 | To be able to inject this realism it 's extremely good and a big step forward |