Example sentences of "[det] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What he actually says is a very proper reminder that you can do more good with wealth in the nation , in the community and in the family , but wealth for its own sake is not a good thing . ’ |
| 2 | For some individuals , affirmative action may still do more good than harm . |
| 3 | When we look at the lists of saints ' resting-places in Anglo-Saxon England , when we see how saints ' remains were moved from the outer fringes to the heart of the West Saxon and Mercian kingdoms where they could do more good ( for example , St Oswald from Tynemouth to Gloucester , St Judoc from Cornwall to Winchester ) , when we watch Otto I move the body of St Maurice ( the soldier saint ) in state from Burgundy to Magdeburg to fight on his eastern frontier , we witness the deployment of heavenly troops on earth as if there were not the slightest difference between the two spheres . |
| 4 | That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives . |
| 5 | That may mean no more than that such a scheme may do more good than harm and that it would do more good than the obvious alternatives . |
| 6 | A drainage ditch around them would probably do more good than anything else . |
| 7 | On looking back , I now realise that corporal punishment , if administered justly and wisely , does more good than harm . |
| 8 | In 1936 , Bertrand Russell , after rehearsing the expected consequences of a new war , posed the question : ‘ Can we imagine any great modern war which would do more good than harm ? ’ |
| 9 | Who , today , believes that a nuclear war would do more good than harm ? |
| 10 | Flora 's article would do more good than months of jumble sales , bring-and-buy fairs , charity fetes . |
| 11 | Taxes raised on what is reckoned to be the world 's largest untaxed industry would help governments spend money on treatment and education , which would do more good than the billions currently spent on attempting to throttle the criminal supply of drugs of all sorts . |
| 12 | Granted , if his deficit-reduction plan eventually gets through Congress relatively unscathed , he will be able to claim that he has done more good in an important area of policy than either of his predecessors . |
| 13 | To meet this point I think one must say that Bentham 's view was , in effect , that a right action must not only do more good than harm , but must also be such that neither the particular good it does , nor any other comparable good which might have substituted for it , could have been achieved at less cost in terms of harm done . |
| 14 | I thought he could do more good with Miss Oliver 's money in England , than as a missionary under the baking sun in the East . |
| 15 | We shall then be in a much better position to state when and where screening does more good than harm . |
| 16 | There seems no prospect that screening for osteoporosis will meet the basic requirements for a screening programme — namely , that those offered screening must be better off as a result , that overall the screening programme must do more good than harm , and that screening must represent a better use of health care resources than other competing demands . |
| 17 | At the moment he seems to be veering towards the idea that if you did more good than bad during your life you go straight to Heaven , an arrangement which at least processes the merit of simplicity ; the rest sounds like something dreamt up by a vindictive bureaucrat on acid while closely inspecting something Hieronymus Bosch painted on one of his bleak but imaginative days . |
| 18 | They had a better line in diplomacy than old Chamberlain himself and certainly did more good in the world . |
| 19 | ‘ Believe me , ’ she told him , ‘ you may do more good to the firm if you stay here . |
| 20 | While wishing you well on the trip , I ca n't help feeling that you 'd be doing more good by campaigning for better facilities for cyclists , in particular for routes and paths which segregate cycles from motor vehicles . |
| 21 | Oh , but then that gets you back to rever to sponsorship would actually Scottish Power do more good for its image with the whole of the population if it sponsored a hostel or a care caravan or a soup kitchen ? |
| 22 | An hour with this lovely girl will do more good than all that old fool 's pills ! |
| 23 | ‘ You can often do more good at grass roots level than as a Backbench opposition MP . ’ |
| 24 | It 'll do more good at home ca n't you ? |
| 25 | It 's only recently that they 've been doing more good than harm and it 's therefore ironic that people have tended to give so much publicity in the last twenty or thirty years to the things that have gone wrong , to the disasters which sometimes do happen with medicines , because really medicines now , as compared with thirty or forty years ago , are doing a tremendous amount of good . |
| 26 | He said too much time was spent at watering places … ‘ when frequently the waters do less good than dissipation do ( does ) injury . ’ |
| 27 | It is utterly baffling why Labour wants to pursue a policy that is likely to raise less revenue and do less good for everybody . |
| 28 | He thought the lectures far too many and that he gave too many lectures for his own good . |
| 29 | Often one step too many for his own good . |
| 30 | We gave him whiskey and had n't to tie him up till the morning and that was only for his own good . ’ |