Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] good " in BNC.

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1 A retrospective study showed that amiodarone was associated with a better prognosis in patients with documented ventricular tachycardia on electrocardiographic monitoring .
2 Both Florey and Chain later emphasized that their study was directed to a better understanding of antibiotic action and not specifically to finding a therapeutic substance .
3 Total care within a segregated institutional setting was seen as the best answer to the social and individual problems arising from mental disorder .
4 The ANLT was selected as the best available rule-based parser to use .
5 A double cholangiojejunostomy reconstruction with Roux-en-Y loop was performed with a good result .
6 The Dowsons ' place was known as a good meat shop .
7 Opinion was divided over the best place to stand , for if they watched the launching they missed a close-up view of the final plunge into the sea .
8 The normal slowdown is represented by The parameters of this normal pre-glitch behaviour were obtained from a best fit for rotation rate and its first derivative , made over the preceding 400 days ; the value of the second derivative was obtained from the full data set from 1969 to 1992 .
9 The good friend was acting as a good friend should .
10 Refuse collection was seen as the best service , pleasing 85% .
11 On January 15 , 1956 , the Inaugural Conference of the Peoples ' National Movement was convened in the Good Samaritan Friendly Society Hall , Port of Spain .
12 The Jed-Forest scrum-half was recognised as the best in Britain before a knee ligament injury in a club match on January 11 threatened to end his playing days .
13 Fortunately , the interior was lined with a good quality mahogany veneer so I was able to reverse it and seal and polish it .
14 After additional training , another subject was classified as a good responder , while two showed a persistently poor response .
15 Apart from the otherwise unknown ‘ M. de Navarre ’ who provided the text of Didon , the cantatas in Campra 's first book were written by the best opera librettists of the day Antoine Danchet ( nos. l-2 ) and Pierre-Charles Roy ( nos. 4–6 ) .
16 And then the warm-ups in September for the World Cup were followed by the best seat in the house for the World Cup , the ideally placed bench for the Irish replacements .
17 ‘ Most people finding that the leather handbag they picked up at the school fete was , in fact , plastic would shrug it off if the proceeds of the sale were going to a good cause , ’ said Mr Richards .
18 Shaftesbury Homes ' report was praised for a good treasurer 's report , accounts and cash flow statement .
19 It looked as though Hereford 's away form was changing for the better on Saturday when they drew at Mansfield , but last night an attacking display by struggling Doncaster had them on the retreat again .
20 In those days the washing was done in a good old copper boiling on a Monday and light the fire underneath it and this sort of thing .
21 The Board held that , on the somewhat complex facts of the particular case , it mattered not whether the subsequent promise was regarded as the best evidence of the benefit intended to be conferred or as the positive bargain , the benefit on the faith of which the promise was given .
22 The accuracy of patients ' self monitoring was shown by the good reproducibility of measurements of control solutions ( Precinorm , Boehringer Mannheim ) and by the good correlation between the monthly triglyceride concentrations measured in the laboratory and the mean monthly preprandial values measured at home ( r =0.88 , p<0.001 .
23 There is nothing new in the notion that if discrimination was replaced with a better understanding of the needs of older consumers , it would reap its own rewards .
24 In this respect , there were many at the meeting ( including me ) who felt the least we should be demanding of the industry and the regulators ( the DTI ) was that only the very highest environmental standards currently practised internationally ( the Norwegian oil field was given as a good example ) would be acceptable for operations in Cardigan Bay .
25 In this respect , there were many ( including me ) who felt the least we should be demanding of the industry and the regulators ( the DTI ) was that only the very highest environmental standards currently practised internationally ( the Norwegian oil field was given as a good example ) would be acceptable for operations in Cardigan Bay .
26 I never did , but when it came up for auction , it just seemed like it would make her smile , and the money was going to a good cause , too .
27 When when they left the church the bride and groom were followed by the best man and the bridesmaid .
28 The Problem of Pain was written with the best of intentions .
29 Their diagnosis was based on Morson 's morphologic criteria and the activity of the disease was assessed on the Best index ( CDAI ) and biological parameters ( erythrocyte sedimentation rate ( ESR ) , white blood cell count ( WBC ) , platelets , α 2 globulin , fibrogen ) .
30 Similarly , residential care has been preferred at some times more than others , so until the eighteenth century in the Netherlands and Flanders the foster family was seen as the best place for orphans , foundlings , and abandoned children and has long been extensively used to care for needy children in Scotland ( Packman , 1975 ; Pinchbeck and Hewitt , 1973 ; Pyck et al . ,
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