Example sentences of "[pron] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Love for another is one of the main derivatives of this awareness of difference ( two bodies in different skins ) and the accompanying gratitude when good things are provided : ‘ I love you because you are my mother and give me the good things I need . ’ |
| 2 | He gave me the good news that Elizabeth and Ernest were safe and well . |
| 3 | Have I a good tape of quiet music for the reflection time ? |
| 4 | Well am I a good son ? |
| 5 | ‘ We 're unbeaten in eight games but we have n't been able to win them and the players were saying beforehand that we were going to give someone a good hiding . |
| 6 | An American editor deleted a comment from one of her books when a father tells his daughter : ‘ Do n't bother about school because you 're a pretty little thing and will make someone a good wife . ’ |
| 7 | Do you think this er really goes back to the fundamental issue which the Good Committee did n't really address which was the issue of ownership of the pension funds and assets and that whilst pensioners and to an extent employers these days regard the pension fund as deferred pay and pensions payments as deferred pay , the ownership of those funds is still left erm neither still er an argument about wh wh who owns the funds and er a lot of this follows on from that . |
| 8 | Then came the disgraceful ‘ leaked minutes ’ of a BBC review board meeting in which the good name of the breathtakingly beautiful Selina Scott was traduced by a cad called Peter Estall . |
| 9 | The seriousness with which the good intentions were taken varied . |
| 10 | Wood and Gipps ( 1982 ) pose an interesting dilemma for decision-makers allocating resources : do they give resources to the schools with poor results , thus penalising the good ones ( from which the good schools may learn the best way to get resources ) , or do they reward the good schools and let the poor ones suffer ? |
| 11 | When Hanns wrote an article for the London magazine Ballet Today about South African achievements , he described it as having ‘ all the qualities which a good valentine should possess … the girls flit , skip and drift hither and thither in pairs or threes , giggle coyly and point with gloved hands , while the sentimental , romantic Pierrot searches among them for his true love . |
| 12 | Productivity has been maintained , as far as possible , by the increasing use of artificial fertilizers , but it has proved very difficult to keep up the humus level on which a good soil structure depends . |
| 13 | Then Boy cut to a black and white film in which a good man comes back from the war in uniform and finds his wife hostessing a party in black satin with orchids , and he throws out her gin-drinking friends , and she says to them , laughing but then not laughing at all , my husband would like to be alone with me . |
| 14 | There was nothing he had to do to earn it , or nothing to threaten his security , except a too-rapid recovery , which he daily prayed against and which a good God would surely not allow — at least until summer came in and clothed a scarred earth with kindliness . |
| 15 | The Liberal Democrats happen to believe that investing in our children 's future will provide the highest dividends of all ; and the better quality of life which a good education brings . |
| 16 | Proof-reading is of the abysmal quality we 've come to expect from this particular publisher , and there 's a certain amount of sloppiness and inaccuracy which a good editor would have pruned . |
| 17 | As a result they are merely measures of the degree of indentation of the coast , and ‘ tell little which a good map does not tell much better ’ Johnson , 1919 , P. 171 ) . |
| 18 | What is known is that nearly 8000 young people leave care each year at 18 and many others at 16 and 17 , and are not provided with any semblance of the help and support which a good parent would give not only to these age groups but often to many young people of 19 , 20 or even older . |
| 19 | It is probably true that in most online catalogue searching both recall and precision are much lower than that which a good intermediary would obtain in reference retrieval searching . |
| 20 | I think they rather wanted me to wear my old farm clothes , but we compromised with a grey check skirt which a good friend gave me , and a blue jumper . |
| 21 | But beneath this exterior there lived a man who treated the islanders with the affection which a good father bestows on his slightly wayward children . |
| 22 | Alternatively , Small and Hoy have tabulated a series of group molar attraction constants from which a good estimate of δ for most polymers can be made . |
| 23 | They saw the role of the state not merely as a set of instrumentalities for securing material welfare but as the focus of a sense of community and citizenship , an institution in which a good common to all classes and recognizable to all interest groups could be articulated . |
| 24 | The issues which will inevitably come up in one form or another include ‘ no first use ’ of nuclear weapons , about which a good deal has been written , not least in No-First-Use ( Blackaby et al . , |
| 25 | Hypotheses which are worth testing can only be developed in areas about which a good deal is known , i.e. where a great deal of empirical field data has already been collected . |
| 26 | it 'll give somebody a good laugh |
| 27 | I mean it , they complain and moan about the N H S , but basically its a good system |
| 28 | Its a good ending |
| 29 | well a number of things have come up so let's just take a couple of votes as er , from hearing from a few people and of which people have n't managed to speak so , first of all , er , er people talked about fear being larger than the incidence of assault , are you afraid to go out in the dark ? , button one for yes and button two for no do you find that your afraid to go out in the dark , and then this hundred and that 's a very , I mean that 's , that 's a very significant figure fifty seven out of this hundred women say yes that their afraid to go out in the dark from time to time , I mean that , that is not as it should be , let me ask you are you ever afraid in your own home ? , button one for yes and button two for no and that two is a very worrying figure , twenty nine of of this hundred say yes their afraid in their home , let me ask you this have you trained in self defence ? , button one for yes and button two for no , I mean its something that comes up from time to time and I do n't know what your view and whether or not its a good idea , well twelve of the hundred here have er , eighty eight say no , of those twelve would you recommend it ? , did it make you feel better ? , yes |
| 30 | — Well mate , its a good question , what with winter coming and the need to feed the soil in preparation for laying the seedlings . |