Example sentences of "[verb] good [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The money will help poor village farmers , agricultural associations and self-help projects in applying better techniques to get the most produce from the land . |
| 2 | Concerned that the imposition of VAT on domestic power and light next year will cause hardship , the Consumers ' Association wants better advice to help people reduce bills and conserve energy . |
| 3 | Nobody can have any faith in Health Secretary Virginia Bottomley who says that the NHS needs good managers to get patients ' waiting lists down . |
| 4 | In the State of Kerala on the Malabar coast , it is popularly considered good fortune to have a Cobra living in the garden . |
| 5 | Even when referring to personal opinion it is not normally considered good style to do so directly . |
| 6 | I 'm quite sure she did n't believe a word of this , but in Oxford it is considered good manners to take an adversarial position so as to generate an interesting conversation and allow both parties to display their intelligence , knowledge and eloquence . |
| 7 | Assynt is so heavily populated with small fish , it is considered good policy to reduce their numbers ; fewer mouths mean more food all round , and larger trout . |
| 8 | This is the sort of muddle which often causes good ideas to run out into the sand . |
| 9 | ‘ The butcher has better things to do than make journey upon journey , until we are ready for him . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ She has better things to do , as well . ’ |
| 11 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 12 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 13 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 14 | He seems to me to be swimming in dangerous waters here , but then Mr Evans-Pritchard probably knows that Rigoberta Menchu has better things to do with her prize money than spend it on litigation . |
| 15 | Oh , Milord must n't lose one precious minute of his time or attention when he has better things to do . |
| 16 | He has better things to do than hang around the Tower answering idle questions whilst good men are killed and the murderer walks scot free . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Pool has better things to think about ! ’ |
| 18 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 19 | He is determined to find better ways to recruit and develop talented women . |
| 20 | Meetings provide good opportunities to practise persuasion and to raise your status among subordinates , peers and bosses . |
| 21 | The commission believes Mr Ozberk has good reasons to fear being returned to Turkey and qualifies as a genuine political refugee . |
| 22 | Where an innocent purchaser is able to rely upon an estoppel , property in the goods passes to him in the normal way , i.e. as if his seller himself has good title to give . |
| 23 | As a single woman living with her uncle , the negligent landlord Mr Brooke , Dorothea has good reason to concern herself with cottages , although she intends them for the estate of the obliging Sir James , having presumably abandoned her uncle as a hopeless case . |
| 24 | Sean O'Dwyer , deputy chairman of Desmond & Sons , has good reason to agree . |
| 25 | " And she has good reason to say so when she looks at what has happened to all the rest of them . " |
| 26 | Unless the applicant for service has good reason to believe that service by simple delivery will be accepted , he should supply a translation , for there is otherwise a risk of delay while the Central Authority reports that that mode of delivery has failed and requests a translation of the document . |
| 27 | She has good reason to believe it . |
| 28 | Is not that why everyone has good reason to know that Tory Governments mean higher VAT ? |
| 29 | ‘ I should think she has good reason to think like that , ’ she told him . |
| 30 | After all , a Frenchman has good cause to do so , has n't he ? ’ |