Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] [prep] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The CDP considered the paper from its Academic Affairs Committee , and agreed that ‘ the CNAA should be informed that the CDP did not wish to accept the form of partnership proposed in the discussion document ’ : the notion of a different approach leading to a better form of partnership should be explored . |
| 2 | She also endorses the radical feminist view that the well-being of private and public life depends on a better understanding of feeling . |
| 3 | His first sight of her was reassuringly normal : a tall , dark girl dressed in a good grey suit of the type favoured by Francesca , which acted effectively as a uniform without doing much for her . |
| 4 | We sat in our little flat recovering from a good dip in the briny channel and slowly eating some of the delicacy . |
| 5 | This was a chance not only to see some sport , but to make some extra money , and many a good profit made on a good deal on the Friday was lost on a poor horse on the Saturday . |
| 6 | Both are gigantic construction projects , needing a large number of people to pass through them to be profitable , and with neither of them is the full return projected for a good few years hence . |
| 7 | The Deaf Broadcasting Council ( DBC ) , a standing committee , which since 1980 has with considerable success campaigned for a better service for hearing-impaired people from the broadcasting media . |
| 8 | It is a strenuous physical effort to scale on a good spring day , but in the pouring rain , amidst hailing bullets , laden with uniform and the tools of war … |
| 9 | It 's an amazingly heady concoction made from a good old bottle of Gordon 's , or whatever your favourite make happens to be , sloshed all over the fruits of the sloe ( blackthorn ) bush . |
| 10 | Before going into the meeting the Irish team spoke of a good deal of hope for peace and the Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew said all options remained open . |
| 11 | Leland realised that precise work equated to a better product at a lower cost . |
| 12 | Of course , Britain is not a democracy of the kind envisaged by those nineteenth-century theorists who focused on the active and informed citizen , and so it is not a democracy that is in accord with the " old-fashioned " liberal-democratic theory of the constitution , but interest-group competition provides for a good working democratic system . |
| 13 | Gentlemen whose sole ability to build up a good side depends on the payment of heavy and exhorbitant [ sic ] transfer fees need not apply . |
| 14 | The correct shaft makes for a better shot and added length . |
| 15 | Perhaps Mill 's qualitative utilitarianism points towards a better alternative to the view that pleasure and pain are simply some kind of uniform sensation of which we want respectively , as much and as little as possible . |
| 16 | This is something no ordinary parent could even begin to enforce and no judicial parent stands in a better position than a natural parent . |
| 17 | The creative springboard starts with a good client brief and then you dive from there into the pool of ideas and solutions which come from sound and considered thinking . |
| 18 | Households will do their best , with the main earner searching for a good job , undertaking training and pursuing overtime , while the second earner goes out to bring the household income up to that socially approved target . |