Example sentences of "[noun] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This will give the Cheshires a good deal more protection and pack a much more powerful punch should they be attacked again . |
| 2 | Di , was Madge a good dancer ? |
| 3 | I 'm afraid Brian Deane was a bit of a liability , he really did nothing all game in the opposition box , apart from straying offside to deny Wetherall a good goal . |
| 4 | There are many more , far too numerous to mention here , but The Body Shop stock a good selection of aromatherapy oils as do most health food sores . |
| 5 | The aim is to give the readers a better Perspective than could be obtained by examining a large number of separate reports of individual companies . |
| 6 | As for centre backs I 've no idea — ideally I 'd like to see him give half wit and Weatherall a good go along with Tinkler , Forrester and Sharp as I really ca n't see us winning the league after Saturdays shite performance . |
| 7 | Keith gives the American football a good kick — high and spiralling , it hangs in the air over the Heath . |
| 8 | He justifies this implicit raising of the required standard partly in order to encourage pupils to continue caring about geography lessons ( as opposed to reading the newspapers ) and partly because it would be unfair to give pupils taking geography a better chance of reaching university than pupils taking , say , physics under the war-time difficulties caused by shortage of laboratories and physics teachers . |
| 9 | ‘ Ave a good supper , did yer ? ’ |
| 10 | Now let's give the Canaries a good pasting . |
| 11 | Vell , di friend said to me ‘ I vant a good job vit it — just like you did for Tom Vatson . ’ |
| 12 | With our new awareness of animal needs , the more forward looking factory farmers are now seeking ways of offering farm animals a better life . |
| 13 | As a result a good model of the system may be obtained from a much smaller corpus of data . |
| 14 | But in the long run nature , which can not be ignored or defied with impunity , asserts its power ; … health fails … [ she ] leaves college a good scholar but a delicate and ailing woman … the special functions which have relation to her future offices as a woman , and the full and perfect accomplishment of which is essential to sexual completeness , have been deranged at a critical time . |
| 15 | ‘ But three points against Swansea would give us seven for the week and make the draw at Rotherham a better result . |
| 16 | Now he 's hoping he gives his new club a good return on their three hundred thousand pound investment . |
| 17 | ‘ Balladic archetypes ’ sprang to her mind a good phrase , she 'd try to work it in somewhere when she got back to university . |
| 18 | Without stopping , lift your partner 's head several centimetres from the floor or table and pull from the base of the skull towards you giving the neck a good stretch . |
| 19 | Short-term City reaction to Budgets can be notoriously wrong , but this spring a better guide might be how easily the Government can finance next year 's massive £50 billion PSBR . |
| 20 | Although the extra representation for zemstva did not arise out of St Petersburg 's enthusiasm for local government ( but out of the determination of central agencies to prevent any one of their number dominating the rest ) , it nevertheless ensured " a large dose of decentralization " in primary education and gave primary schools a better chance than they would have had otherwise . |
| 21 | This had been quite difficult and the Gnomes had scratched their heads a good deal , because , although people did not openly refer to it , everyone knew that Flame 's father was Fael-Inis and it had meant a lot of worrisome discussions as to whether this fact ought to be openly acknowledged , or whether it might be discourteous to draw attention to it . |
| 22 | Is Dambusters a good film ? |
| 23 | Care management is at an early stage of development in Britain but , if the experience in the United States is anything to go on , we can be optimistic that the system will promote for the recipient a better coordination of services and a better quality of community care . |
| 24 | Well she 's made David a good wife actually |
| 25 | The epidemic took hold during the 1970s , when high rates of income tax and an attempt by successive governments to control pay made the company-owned car a good way of rewarding people surreptitiously . |
| 26 | ‘ The event gave the TEC a good opportunity to discover the needs of this vital Hampshire industry , which is so important to the country 's prosperity . |
| 27 | In other words a good listener . |
| 28 | In other words a good mirror signal manoeuvre routine , however you apply it but in a particular order , which gives a discipline , so that you 're keeping yourselves out of the problems that other people may give you if you allow them to . |
| 29 | Give Sinbad a better break is the answer he 's one of the most endearing soap characters on the box , yet now he 's fast turning into a busybody . |
| 30 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |