Example sentences of "[verb] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next , Peter Jenkins , the respected political commentator of The Sunday Times , writing on the possible impact of such men as Kenneth Baker and Kenneth Clarke brought into the Cabinet in the September 1985 reshuffle ( in alliance with existing Cabinet members such as Douglas Hurd and Norman Fowler ) : ‘ It is not easy to reassert Cabinet government in the face of determined prime ministerial power but the new Cabinet contains a group of capable and ambitious men of political middle age who are not eager to sacrifice the best years of their careers for the sake of someone else 's ‘ conviction politics ’ . ’ |
| 2 | Do not barge in if you think you are in the wrong , be prepared to be a little late , or concede the best position , but do not be bullied by those who shout at you . |
| 3 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 4 | The practice of eating dead enemies probably arose from the idea that you could absorb the better qualities of the person who had died through eating their flesh . |
| 5 | These could then serve as the basis for further testing , allowing the best candidate for a true representation to emerge . |
| 6 | In this ‘ evangelism equals church planting ’ model , the priority may be seen as a desire to make sure every community throughout the earth is covered by a church that is alive and preaching the good news of Jesus Christ . |
| 7 | Christ himself came preaching the Good News of the Kingdom , describing its nature and calling for a response . |
| 8 | At the same time , the Asian participants acknowledged the need to extend and deepen their dialogue with people of different faiths and cultures and to ‘ rediscover the latent power of the media in preaching the Good News of justice , freedom and peace . ’ |
| 9 | It needs to rediscover the latent power of the media in preaching the Good News of justice , freedom and peace . |
| 10 | It was as Cornelius waited humbly and receptively in prayer , that God 's supreme gift , the Holy Spirit , was poured out upon him before ever Peter who was preaching the good news to him , reached the climax of his sermon ! |
| 11 | Let me read a few verses , reading first of all from verse twelve it says , that when they believed Philip preaching the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ , they were baptized men and women alike . |
| 12 | The signatories of the Charter have accepted responsibility for maintaining the good code of practice and also agree to disseminate the document through their organisations , encouraging their managers to actively participate . |
| 13 | They wished to restore the good name of physics . |
| 14 | We want to restore the good image of football . |
| 15 | I ca n't deliver these resources overnight but I can say that when we talk about building the Best Banking and Financial Services Group , we do n't simply mean the best for our shareholders . |
| 16 | The ES/9000 guys are interested in building the best data management engine possible . |
| 17 | ( 1977 ) have argued that resources should be shifted between spending heads and even between agencies , and Banister ( 1980 ) has argued for a total welfare perspective which involves the best use of all existing facilities , not just the transport-related ones . |
| 18 | If one could only graft the best aspects of Scimone and Devos onto one another , the roof would really lift off ! |
| 19 | In place of bureaucracy , revolutionary leaders would simply need to borrow the best models furnished by the advanced countries and employ existing functionaries in the service of the new state . |
| 20 | Students often object to the expense of textbooks , but remember that all your friends will be trying to borrow the best textbooks from the college library . |
| 21 | They agreed the best way to help was in a manner which was visible to the population of Russia . |
| 22 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 23 | Just in case they 'd forgotten , Town Crier Willium Chapman 's been reminding the good people of Newent what day it is . |
| 24 | Oh great competition it was , in my day about who could build the best stack er you know both in the hay coles and the and the harvest time . |
| 25 | How do you build the best soccer team in the world ? |
| 26 | Eddy , the older of the two , shared the good looks of Ralph , but he was by far the strongest kid I ever knew . |
| 27 | It is at this stage of the hob that the one-man band plays the best music . |
| 28 | The challenge to the Lord Chancellor 's Department is to preserve the best features of the tribunal system while providing the necessary advice and support needed by claimants to ensure that all of them put their cases at their best . |
| 29 | There 's nothing sinister or mysterious about wanting to preserve the best aspects of the working class tradition — the humour , the camaraderie , the sense of shared experience and shared hardships . |
| 30 | And she would do it , Emily clenched her hands into fists , she would fight to the last breath to keep her heritage and to preserve the good name of the Grenfells . |