Example sentences of "[verb] [art] good many " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture incorporates a good many complexities in reality . |
| 2 | ‘ It looks a good many at first glance , but I doubt if there are five hundred men there ready to leave . |
| 3 | I stuck one on my forehead for an afternoon , received a good many curious stares from colleagues , and got the giggles . |
| 4 | ‘ I 've said a good many foolish things , but that crowns the lot . |
| 5 | I had decided to enter for a competition for British crime writers , run a good many years ago by Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine . |
| 6 | Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ . |
| 7 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 8 | This passage raises a good many more questions than it answers . |
| 9 | As with Cornish tin the profits were creamed by the London capitalists who financed a good many undertakings . |
| 10 | The Christian Church has always had a good many professing members who are rather like those disciples at Ephesus who , when asked by Paul , ‘ Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed ? ’ replied , ‘ No , we have never even heard that there is a Holy Spirit ’ ( Acts 19:2 ) . |
| 11 | I lack a good many things , but money ai n't one of 'em . |
| 12 | Spoke at a number of events and was enabled to see a good many different sides of the west of Scotland making a strong link with a group in Garthamlock ( Rev. ) |
| 13 | He had charred a good many slices of bread and sent several up in flames before he discovered this simple device . |
| 14 | Families in this group tend to acquire a good many of the major appliances , to centre their social life in the kitchen , to be relatively unconcerned with adding taste in furnishings to comfort . |
| 15 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 16 | Similar diagrams to show the periods of flourishing of various natural groups were used by Richard Owen , Darwin 's chief adversary in England ; illustrations which look Darwinian may not be so in fact , but merely indicate that contemporaries were all wrestling with similar problems , and were sharing a good many assumptions . |
| 17 | Earlier , Nina had been stretched a good many notches too tight ; now , she had snapped , and was flapping limply . |
| 18 | Breeze , who had hatched a good many herself , quickened her steps to a run , for her two friends were waiting . |
| 19 | In searching a small file it is also likely that users will enter a good many words which are correct but which the system does not know . |
| 20 | It did n't seem to me the way to behave towards someone with whom you had shared a good many midnight hours , swopping confidences and generally letting your hair down , not to mention the many other evenings when we had had such fun with Henry and Jimmy , and I felt rather aggrieved at being treated this way . |
| 21 | The cast could n't have come from Stavanger 's teeth : he was wounded in the mouth by a piece of shrapnel during the war , and lost a good many teeth , with the result that he wore a plate with artificial teeth in both upper and lower jaws . |
| 22 | Empingham netted its owner £40 a year , and up and down the kingdom could be found a good many manors worth at least as much . |
| 23 | But America 's top shops are learning to apply their bar-code data in ways that might surprise a good many customers who shop more often than Mr Bush — and that signal big changes ahead for store managers , as well . |
| 24 | So Ray then found himself in the position of spending a good many of his working hours enforcing a law which he was breaking himself and increasingly afraid of being arrested by one of his mates . |
| 25 | His legacy wo n't last forever , and I 'm prepared to overlook a good many faults , business-wise , for my sister 's sake . ’ |
| 26 | Those who are pupils of the large schools of music will have the great advantage of hearing a good many standard works rehearsed many times by the students ' orchestra , or perhaps even of playing in them . |
| 27 | Banking profitability — not to mention a good many banks — has collapsed over the past decade . |
| 28 | However , I managed a good many school pullovers — and gloves . |
| 29 | And so did a good many people who I , I thought would never go . |
| 30 | ‘ I have wasted a good many minutes hunting about the front . ’ |