Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | QUIET cities rarely make good copy ; but on May 28th , when Miami failed to explode , it was news of a sort . |
| 2 | Er er I do n't think after going through everything we 've said , I think we 've all got the sort of ideas that we could all make good criminals , |
| 3 | They only sell good ones in Alders . |
| 4 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan also acknowledged that headhunters will try quite naturally to seduce good people away from such companies as his own ; but , he maintained , headhunters overall did a good job for him and he was not frightened that they might take his staff . |
| 5 | This is an area where techniques of distributed AI ( DAI ) and distributed databases ( DDB ) blend together to provide good solutions to many industrial problems such as investment advice systems , intelligent manufacturing systems , automated engineering systems , air-traffic control , network management , travel plans , complex diagnostics systems , real-time monitoring systems , and so on . |
| 6 | Critical comment of the content — expressed by , at most , one per cent of respondents — includes ‘ Only has good news , ignores the harsh realities ’ and ‘ too much about people I ‘ d never heard of ’ . |
| 7 | All of these imports from the UK not only sired good stock but also gained their New Zealand Championships . |
| 8 | It was all frolicking good entertainment for which the aficionados accorded the designer ( appearing in a navy serge kilt with his customary striped Breton top ) an enthusiastic standing ovation . |
| 9 | In the final week of treatment , when remission had been achieved , the patient 's normal diet was discussed paying particular attention to any personally suspected good intolerances . |
| 10 | Good work by Martin Strutt supported by Stephen McKinty led to a scrum on the Banbridge line and when they failed to clear Michael Long made good ground down the right touch line before slipping the ball inside to full back Mark Tinman who scored at the corner after seven minutes . |
| 11 | We 've all got good days and bad days . |
| 12 | Amis has taken time to rehearse the arguments about politics hijacking literature , and in the end the novel may even surprise some readers with its air of amused tolerince : ‘ Even bad poetry had to exist , if only to heighten good poetry by contrast , to make the good poets shine out as even bette . ’ |
| 13 | The radiologist was obviously getting good soundings on the right of my stomach , for his sensor was traversing backwards and forwards like a frigate on a sweep with a nice , fat positive response , from a holed-up submarine . |
| 14 | Straps on harnesses should be long enough to give good adjustment , but not so long that the ends dangle ! |
| 15 | We can only wish good luck to the chairmen or directors of Morgan Grenfell , Amec . |
| 16 | Duty Free performance in Asian markets has also been strong , with Singapore , Taiwan , Malaysia , the Philippines and India all achieving good growth this year . |
| 17 | Crawfish are very difficult to find in Britain ( freshwater crayfish can be substituted , although they are expensive ) so use good quality prawns or diced monkfish instead . |
| 18 | A sound perimeter ( half of which is probably your neighbour 's responsibility ) should come first , if only to foster good relations ; within your boundaries you are then free to work out your own schemes . |
| 19 | He was a natural server on such committees — it was part of that large inheritance from his busily engaged family — although his own general pessimism about the state of English society no doubt encouraged his native scepticism about the efficacy of what were essentially only institutionalized good intentions . |
| 20 | In order to survive the jungle and live to tell the tale it is important not only to have good companions , but also to have the best available equipment . |
| 21 | The booklet not only gives good information about the subject but suggests open-ended questions to prompt children to talk . |
| 22 | If you 're daft enough to pay good money to have paint shot into your crotch , you 're daft enough to do anything . |
| 23 | This not only gave good grounds for peace and stability in Europe , but also opened up the prospect for bigger cuts in military spending . |
| 24 | Crucial to Mr Reagan 's success was the role in the White House of Jim Baker , his chief of staff ; not only to get good things done , but to make sure that bad things were left undone . |
| 25 | Shostakovich obviously had good reason for these references , but they are to music so well-known that I worry about finding them in someone else 's piece , even a composer of the supreme integrity of Shostakovich . |
| 26 | She left him lying there and went down to say good night , treading on the paint at the side of the stairs to spare the carpet as Mr Evans had told her to do . |
| 27 | Two phase detectors , analogue and digital , work together to produce good noise performance and fast locking . |
| 28 | That quality is not inherent in us , like being born with beautiful blue eyes or a lovely skin , so that some people naturally have good relationships and others equally naturally do not . |
| 29 | And you have to get some of them in to make good scores . |
| 30 | Unfortunately this is a problem which faces both kites er and ospreys and , and some other birds of prey , so er we always look for a few losses , but we hope that nevertheless , in a good season like this , the birds will breed well enough to produce good numbers of young . |