Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For all her talk of shaking up the town 's bureaucracy , Mrs Molina will have to learn some of her opponent 's conciliatory skills to win a better deal for her constituents . |
| 2 | Experiments with exogenous compounds showed a good correlation between amounts added and amounts measured . |
| 3 | The confidence that often comes with maturity can help us to voice our sexual preferences to our partners in a way which we may have been inhibited about in the past , and the ability to communicate sexual needs gives a good foundation for a satisfying relationship . |
| 4 | Tony Foreman , a tax partner in Pannell Kerr Forster , said the BES assured tenancy schemes with non-recourse loans provided a good return for top rate taxpayers ; their 60p in the pound net outlay after tax relief was turned into 72p in as little as six months by a loan . |
| 5 | Try to find a shop that sells half-sizes and , even better , different widths to ensure a good fit . |
| 6 | There is no need to be too rigid in your choice of material for each season , unless you feel it is important , but nevertheless you should still maintain the overall feeling of each season , although in some cases I chose a few out-of-season flowers to give a better colour or shape . |
| 7 | The personal social services provide a good example of a transfer of responsibility for provision from the state to the commercial , voluntary and informal sectors . |
| 8 | Most of the really useful people , those who keep organizations alive , are average performers doing a good day 's work in exchange for a fair reward . |
| 9 | As Goshiki are grouped in the catch-all Kawarimono class at shows , the Koi buyer with limited funds has a good chance or rearing on a future champion , providing the fish has that certain something . |
| 10 | As they showed in 1987 , today 's central bankers have a better understanding of their responsibilities as providers of liquidity and lenders of last resort . |
| 11 | Second , the plasma must be dense enough — enough particles in a given volume — that individual particles have a good chance to find each other ; this critical density is of the order of 10 20 ions per cubic metre . |
| 12 | ‘ Mind thoo , ’ went on his father , ‘ it 'll not be easy ti get a good man . |
| 13 | The spokesman claimed 200 similar crossings had a good safety record and that there had been no accidents on Seal Sands Road since the crossing opened in the late 1970s . |
| 14 | Your hired bullies did a good job on poor Joe Hyde last night … " |
| 15 | Many coaches encourage this , most people here are aware of it , and as a doctor I know that many of my orthopaedic colleagues owe a good proportion of their incomes to repairing football-related catastrophic knee injuries . |
| 16 | Still its GUI libraries give a good showing . |
| 17 | As well as being an aid then , being cool is also seen as an obstacle to digging deep into the ultimate reserves under stringent conditions to produce a better performance . |
| 18 | This gives sufficient protection for its ephemeral purpose but , after prolonged wetting , such materials are hopelessly weak , whereas natural celluloses retain a good part of their strength . |
| 19 | any numerical measures need a good deal of explanation and background information if they are not to be misleading ; and |
| 20 | In brief , several studies have shown that , in a variety of ways , the upper socio-economic groups receive a better service than the lower socio-economic groups when they visit their general practitioner . |
| 21 | A key point is the question whether individual socio-economic groups enjoy a better life through being concentrated together ; does the overall social composition of an area enhance or reduce the prospects of individuals in a given socio-economic group ? |
| 22 | Equal opportunities to earn a good living are cental to our vision of a better life for all . |
| 23 | For the past 60 years , The Savoy Group has manufactured its own beds to make sure guests have a good night 's sleep . |
| 24 | In Spring and Autumn , the traditional publishing seasons , lists of forthcoming books with substantial annotations give a good indication of the content of the publisher 's output for the next four month period . |
| 25 | The deepest headings , approx. 14cm ( 5 ½in ) , are used with particularly long curtains to give a better proportion and are sold in two varieties — one for use with a track , the other with a pole . |
| 26 | The fires have been burning in the orchards this weekend.It was all part of ancient rites to ensure a good crop of cider apples.And there 's some evidence that it really works.Richard Barnett reports : |
| 27 | Compared to political leaders in other states , British Prime Ministers spend a good deal of time in the legislature . |
| 28 | The property classes reported reduced losses following a good profit in Commercial Property in the fourth quarter . |
| 29 | The inter-war years saw a good deal of activity in North Shields by the local branch of the National Unemployed Workers Movement ( NUWM ; see CDP , 1978 ) , whose main base of support was on the Meadowell . |
| 30 | The crystallographic results show a good correlation which the modelling results , both for the extreme B I and B II states and for the intermediate transition region , although there is a bigger scatter of ε values in the B II zone than the modelling would suggest . |