Example sentences of "[prep] [art] good [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So look for the good ones do n't spend too much t There 'll only be one little geometry thing |
| 2 | It is not a bad idea to say ‘ thank you ’ every now and then for the good things in your life . |
| 3 | She 's quick , determined , and looks for the good things in life . |
| 4 | All Governments like to have the opportunity of introducing guillotines at certain times , but that desire should be resisted for the good reasons put forward by the hon. Member for Wolverhampton , South-West ( Mr. Budgen ) . |
| 5 | Gary helped him with his chemistry and deserves much of the credit for the good grades William got in tests when he got back ( the teachers were amazed ! ) . |
| 6 | In my opinion the true themes of religion are being lost in all the disputes surrounding it and the fact the religion is a force for the good needs to promoted . |
| 7 | But this really is life-enhancing stuff , a genuine triumph for the good guys , a feel-good experience for the dumper-bound '90s . |
| 8 | Fighting for the good guys . |
| 9 | fair point , its still er , I mean its a considerable number , I mean you can see why the insurance company 's are doing quite well , but your willing to put up with that as well for the , for the good points of a car , for the freedom that er , that cars give you and the safety someone has said , the individual safety as a woman , yes . |
| 10 | Even during the good periods , quoting the annual rate was misleading : the proportion of all bonds outstanding that defaulted in any given year was kept low by the huge proportion of new issues in 1986–90 . |
| 11 | They eased their way into becoming the established constitutional theory and they praised British politics during the good times of economic boom . |
| 12 | Others who had coped well enough to begin with on those scanty mill wages , who had even picked themselves up and patched things together , the first time that demon of bad trade had halved their weekly pay ; the first time there had been sickness and doctors ' bills to eat up anything they had been able to put by during the good times — never much ; the first time a husband had suffered injury at the mill or the foundry , which meant no weekly pay-packet at all . |
| 13 | They sowed exotic grasses for their animals , built up the herds during the good years , when it rained , but then ( at least in some cases ) found that the grass was overgrazed in the drought years , when it failed to grow . |
| 14 | Their small nomadic populations , growing and subdividing during the good years , were periodically culled by cold and starvation . |
| 15 | your partner tells you about the good times he/she had before meeting you |
| 16 | Life is full of ups and downs , but you should enjoy it more if you are able to think about the good times and you 'll feel better able to cope when the bad times are around . |
| 17 | You have to sermonize about the good times . |
| 18 | And in the mist-wraithed frosty field , she told his corpse about the good times ahead while Trask and Khaur closed her future in their night . |
| 19 | Yes , yes , he was a poor little sole all the way through was n't , but , erm , she does n't sort of tell you much about the good times at the end |
| 20 | ‘ I forced myself to write a chapter or two about the good things he did : getting rid of dead wood in the bureau ; eliminating corruption among his agents ; setting up a fingerprint system , an FBI laboratory that could serve as a technical resource for police forces all over the country . |
| 21 | I worked with him in the theatre , through the good times and the bad times . |
| 22 | Having watched Leeds from an early age when my father was a season ticket holder in the 60's , I have been through the good times and the bad times . |
| 23 | Rabbi Klinitsky-Klein and his family had escaped to Canada through the good offices of a Jewish agency in 1923 — the sort movingly described by Norman Glimotsky in his My Life , My Destiny . |
| 24 | Joe had written to me suggesting that there was a post for me in Japan ( available through the good offices of Stephen Spender , who had just returned from there with a commission from the Dean of the Faculty of Letters at Tohoku University ) to go and teach English , in the poet-teacher tradition for which it was famous . |
| 25 | The first-born child , after seven years of marriage — an arranged marriage through the good offices of a shadchan ( matchmaker ) … was Carl in 1906 . |
| 26 | In 1911 Shinwell , after varied experience in a number of industries , became through the good offices of the highly influential Glasgow Trades Council , of which he was vice-chairman , a voluntary official of Wilson 's union , though he had no personal knowledge of seagoing or of the sea . |
| 27 | Order is eventually restored through the good offices of the interpreters Kelly and Jack , but no sooner are the terrorists under control than there is a second attempt to sabotage the convention by characters from television who demand representation . |
| 28 | While studying theology at Oxford he joined for a time the household of Robert Grosseteste [ q.v. ] , bishop of Lincoln , probably through the good offices of Adam Marsh , who described him as ‘ active , discreet , full of goodwill and devoted to the cure of souls ’ ( Mon . |
| 29 | In 1853 , through the good offices of W. E. Gladstone and other Peelites in the ministry of G. H. Gordon , fourth Earl of Aberdeen , he was rescued from penury by an appointment as commissioner of income tax , retiring through ill health some time before his death . |
| 30 | Together these two concepts give the key to both the sculpture and the inspiration for its bold commission by The Royal Bank of Scotland through the good offices of a non-executive director , Angus Grossart . |