Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a further principle was established — that of ‘ conflict of interest ’ , in which a manager who advises an artist to sign with his own recording and music publishing companies can hardly be said to be acting impartially , or necessarily in the best interests of his client . |
| 2 | AND so to the Good Friday question in the Mensa search for the brightest part of Britain . |
| 3 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 4 | All would agree with Mr Lester who says , ‘ The concept of three fairs is infinitely confusing and not in the best interests of Chicago ’ . |
| 5 | One advantage is that the students are not in competition with each other , as each student 's achievement is assessed against the criteria laid down and not against the best student . |
| 6 | Some couples , highly intelligent and normally with a good command over words , manage to keep themselves endlessly but unknowingly confused . |
| 7 | The point , which I find persuasive , is that an appeal court which will be less full-time than the Court of Justice will be less imbued with the centralist perspective , and thus in a better position to maintain an objectivity as between the interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 8 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
| 9 | And back to the Good life . |
| 10 | Ant : And now for the best bit ! |
| 11 | Selling on is an attitude of mind , an attitude whereby you do your customers a favour by selling them more than they ask for , and often at a better price than they expected . |
| 12 | It is not a bad idea to say ‘ thank you ’ every now and then for the good things in your life . |
| 13 | The following quotation from Norman Conway , a grammar school chemistry teacher interviewed by Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden ( 1962 ) , shows how the competition for scarce university places ( and ultimately for a better job for the teacher ) , especially in the context of bureaucratic mass-assessment can allow the instrumental pursuit of extrinsic rewards to drive out the expensive ‘ educational side ’ : |
| 14 | Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker . |
| 15 | That does address itself to a real evil , the grossly excessive creation of credit , but not in the best way . |
| 16 | He would be defended not just by the best lawyers in Egypt but probably by the best lawyers in France . |
| 17 | But , even when we have made allowance for the exaggerated impressions of a boy of fifteen , recollected many years later , it may be taken as evidence that Lanfranc and his handful of monks from Bec and Caen met not only with hostility , but also with a good deal of successful resistance . |
| 18 | I shall approach their work , in short , in the light of the pragmatist belief that a study of the problems they pose and the solutions they offer may provide us not merely with a new perspective on the scope of holistic explanations , but also with the best means , in the end , of assessing their strength . |
| 19 | The gains would come not only in quality assurance and morale , but also in a better understanding of each other . |
| 20 | The surgery was equipped with the usual furniture but out of the best catalogue : desk and swivel chair for the doctor , a couple of hygienic-looking chairs for patient and friend , drugs and instrument cabinet , couch , wash basin , and glass-fronted bookcase . |
| 21 | But even with the best understanding in the world some element of uncertainty is present in knowledge , for we can never know exhaustively how we come to know . |