Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] a good [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two measures should do a good deal to grease the wheels of the City 's securities business . |
| 2 | My Boss says as far as he 's concerned a crêche is a motor accident in Kelvinside and any self respecting woman should have a good man to take care of her so its only pinmoney anyway and that 's bound to come out in the attitude . |
| 3 | To propose that the separation of assessment from provision might provide a better incentive to create a needs-led service , than professional judgement , is to show a degree of confusion about the origins of our present predicament ( shortage of resource ; bureaucratization , etc. ) bordering on the incredible . |
| 4 | If ordered into similar action again , they might find a better excuse to abstain . |
| 5 | She said to me : ‘ Look , just to shut you up , I 'll find a better place to hide it . ’ |
| 6 | One way of describing the ideal low-pass response depicted in figure 12.1(a) is through the relation This suggested to Butterworth that where n is a large integer , ought to constitute a good response to synthesise from the point of view of creating high-performance low-pass filters . |
| 7 | We 'd want a good description to make sure the right property goes back to the right owner . |
| 8 | ‘ Of course , ’ Gaily said , ‘ I 'd need a good photograph to work from . ’ |
| 9 | I will not insult you by asking you to be my servant , Burkett , but nevertheless I could use a good man to drive this coach down to Grasmere , get me some fishing over a few days , be prepared to go the odd errand — about a week in all I would guess . |
| 10 | We 'd have a better chance to find reasonably paid jobs in London . |
| 11 | ( Nobody could find a good word to say for the secondary moderns , and that silence was eloquent and effective . ) |
| 12 | A debate would present a good opportunity to underline the fact that many countries are experiencing far more difficulties than we are . |
| 13 | One of these areas was an arable field that had been rolled flat , and I felt that this would provide a good opportunity to experiment with the machine 's settings . |
| 14 | ‘ We shall have a good deal to discuss , you know . |
| 15 | They will need a good showing to put themselves back in contention for a place in Britain 's Olympic squad . |
| 16 | ‘ He will need a good reason to convince me , ’ Mr Ramsay added . |
| 17 | Bangor 's new coach Duncan Dysart was happy enough with the first sight of his charges last week and he will have a good opportunity to identify some grey areas when they make the trip to a high-scoring City of Derry tomorrow . |
| 18 | ‘ If the mechanism holds up , we will have a better means to identify which toxin is involved , ’ adds Schutzer . |
| 19 | He , that he 's now a Director of this Ipswich Buses and I do n't think you can get a better man to do it because he is heart and soul in transport , he , the things that he brought in , the different innovations that he brought in were good , I mean he brought in , he brought in all this erm operated vaults and all that sort of thing and all this electronic gear that they are working now . |