Example sentences of "[verb] a very good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Saunders added : ‘ It is becoming a very good team with the defence looking really solid . ’ |
| 2 | Although anti-abortionists would maintain that it is morally wrong to dispose of a child even if it will live no longer than a week at the most , many more people doubt the right of a mother to dispose of a child with Down 's Syndrome who stands a very good chance of living a lengthy life . |
| 3 | ‘ They say she is a very good housekeeper and I want a very good housekeeper because my house will be perfect . |
| 4 | His name overpowered all objection , and we found a very good house and civil treatment . ’ |
| 5 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 6 | ‘ Then I was lucky enough to find this place , and at the same time to find a very good agent who managed to get me plenty of work . ’ |
| 7 | Sludds , winner of the title in 1984 , has been struggling unsuccessfully to make an impression on the European tour , but now looks a very good bet indeed for the £10,000 first prize in the Irish Championship . |
| 8 | Deborah , in Chapter 2 , talks about the celebration that she and her family had when she started hers ; Deborah has a very good self-image and no particular hang-ups about her body . |
| 9 | MY SON has a very good memory for songs and snatches gathered in passing from radio and television , and can reconstitute these with sometimes startling accuracy . |
| 10 | By chance , the cloud arrived in the middle of a series of measurements of the ‘ extinction ’ of Sun and star light caused by the atmosphere , and as a result the Lowell team has a very good record of day-to-day variations in the transparency of the atmosphere . |
| 11 | He has a very good knowledge and superb technique which enable him to sue every second of studio time . |
| 12 | ‘ He has a very good team here and he would be better off letting them do his talking for him . ’ |
| 13 | Pilot 's Notes ' advice on single engine flying says ‘ the aircraft has a very good single-engine performance and the rudder trimmers are powerful enough to trim out all the foot load at normal cruising speeds . |
| 14 | If it does , it has a very good chance of catching the gazelle for it is able to reach its maximum speed within a few yards , and then it is the fastest animal on four legs . |
| 15 | In some localities market prices of residential property are directly linked to and affected by school catchment areas , where a school has a very good or very bad reputation . |
| 16 | ‘ But the old signorina has a very good eye for a horse , ’ said Leon , as though there might be a connection between judging horse flesh and marrying . |
| 17 | The clinic you mentioned has a very good reputation . ’ |
| 18 | The College has a very good and , incidently , quite famous library , which is free of charge . |
| 19 | some excerpts from norw. paper VG after norways 2–1 loss vs USA in the US ( USA actually has a very good home stat. — beating England ( you might remember ! ) , drawing 2–2 vs Denmark just after D. was crowned EuroChamps , and also giving Germany some hard resistance ) . |
| 20 | We know that it already has a very good bus service . |
| 21 | Power boat racing has a very good safety record . |
| 22 | If he comes through it well , Weir has a very good chance of going to New Zealand as a versatile forward who , in that company , could find himself pulling on the No6 jersey . |
| 23 | Astley House has a very good working relationship with parents , children and young adults . |
| 24 | I think it has a very good sound and is well worth the room it takes up ( 2 manuals and pedals , but no pipes as it is electronically voiced ) . |
| 25 | And it 's much more usual for that kind of thing to happen , so that you are more likely to get a , a minister who has a very good idea about how erm the civil service functions because he 's been part of it . |
| 26 | would have presented a very good budget for |
| 27 | First of all I think we have worked out the importance of establishing a very good relationship with the media and that 's developing and that means that , that the views of the trade union movement are beginning to be heard , er , when we , when we spoke to the editor of the local paper for example , we pointed out that on the business page there 's nothing about trade unions and did he think that business er existed without er on , just on one side . |
| 28 | Which just leaves her domestic credentials to knock into shape , and now that they 're under scrutiny I realise I 've not done a very good job at all . |
| 29 | It looks as if you 've done a very good turn to me and to a lot of other people this afternoon . |
| 30 | Alan Davies has done a very good job in a short space of time and if he remains as coach for three seasons or more Wales will be in with a fighting chance for the future — and certainly in the next World Cup ’ . |