Example sentences of "[verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ministers involved recognize that MPs are being well briefed and though they will not necessarily concede directly they encounter a good case , they will usually move the amendment themselves at a later stage . |
| 2 | Slacker , a term denoting a Twentysomething who wants no responsibility and loves a good time , was a major US cult hit last year for director Richard Linklater — and deservedly so . |
| 3 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |
| 4 | But it was a control which required active defence , to which the Cinque Ports contributed a good deal , particularly in the late fourteenth century . |
| 5 | It seems clear that epidemics of the bubonic type became increasingly limited to the towns , which provided a better habitat for the plague-carrying black rat . |
| 6 | Everyone agreed that the loss of eyesight was a consequence of the animals taking up residence in an environment with no light , but the Lamarckians argued that the inherited effects of disuse provided a better explanation of the process than natural selection . |
| 7 | He provided a better place , which the uneasy partner did not even want to look at , but admits could not be better . |
| 8 | In Edinburgh at the time , there were various schools which might come under this heading , including the Merchant Company schools which provided a good education originally for children of humble backgrounds , but increasingly for middle-class children . |
| 9 | Tony Foreman , a tax partner in Pannell Kerr Forster , said the BES assured tenancy schemes with non-recourse loans provided a good return for top rate taxpayers ; their 60p in the pound net outlay after tax relief was turned into 72p in as little as six months by a loan . |
| 10 | Initially , the steel toecaps of industrial boots provided a good way of savaging your opponent . |
| 11 | This provided a good defence against swords and arrows , but no protection against a lance thrust or a mace . |
| 12 | In the old large hospitals it was sometimes difficult to detect the strong mutual , informal relationships which developed amongst patients and provided a good deal of support , and , unfortunately , often little account was taken of these relationships when patients were moved from the hospitals into the community . |
| 13 | For a given histogram ( in this case the histogram from Fig. 1 c ) , an ‘ autocorrelation score ’ was calculated by subtracting the best-fitting smooth distribution ( in this and many other examples a single gaussian provided a good fit ) , filtering the resulting difference function in the Fourier domain , then detecting peaks in its autocorrelation function . |
| 14 | Manchester provided a good site for developing a dye industry because it was both at the heart of the Lancashire textile industry and it was close to a developing university . |
| 15 | The basic chemical structure common to promethazine and chlorpromazine provided a good basis from which to begin the search for compounds which were better than chlorpromazine , and in the next few years many came into clinical use . |
| 16 | Knowing general family traits provided a good starting point and from assorted references I began to get an idea of the species I could hope to find myself and those for which I 'd need help . |
| 17 | Such publications must be treated critically ; Namier provided a good example of the deflation of a quasi-official authoritativeness in his review of the Survey of International Affairs , 1938 published by the authoritative Royal Institute of International Affairs ( Chatham House ) . |
| 18 | Education provided a good example of the accommodation feminists had to make in regard to scientific theories of sexual difference and the ambivalence many of them felt about the whole issue . |
| 19 | The development was welcomed by exhibitors , who felt that stage adaptations would enable them to attract a better class of customer , but they were n't to know what they were letting themselves in for . |
| 20 | But they do know a good ad when they see one . |
| 21 | Well then , you will know a good cigar when you taste one . ’ |
| 22 | Do you know a good locksmith ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Do you know a good solicitor ? ’ |
| 24 | Those of you who are involved in deciding whether to apply for a place in further or higher education will already know a good deal about how to read prospectuses without believing everything they say : what they do not say is just as important . |
| 25 | We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years . |
| 26 | The association continues next year — P.S. Does anyone know a good hockey coach — we definitely need one ! |
| 27 | ‘ You 'll also need a better cover story , ’ he added , ‘ if you 're going to be seen around with Hurley and his crowd . |
| 28 | But the lovers kissing , the lady with a book , the donkey , the antelope , the lion , the scorpion and the rest of the menagerie may need a better imagination or a more discerning eye . |
| 29 | ‘ Certainly we 'll need a better ship than the kind I 've seen in Pantai and Losan . ’ |
| 30 | You will need a good honours degree in any discipline or alternatively a degree , HND or equivalent combined with experience at management level . |