Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] good [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ’ . |
| 3 | All of these imports from the UK not only sired good stock but also gained their New Zealand Championships . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Straps on harnesses should be long enough to give good adjustment , but not so long that the ends dangle ! |
| 8 | We can only wish good luck to the chairmen or directors of Morgan Grenfell , Amec . |
| 9 | Duty Free performance in Asian markets has also been strong , with Singapore , Taiwan , Malaysia , the Philippines and India all achieving good growth this year . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The booklet not only gives good information about the subject but suggests open-ended questions to prompt children to talk . |
| 12 | If you 're daft enough to pay good money to have paint shot into your crotch , you 're daft enough to do anything . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Two phase detectors , analogue and digital , work together to produce good noise performance and fast locking . |
| 16 | Reducing emissions not only makes good sense environmentally , it can also yield cost savings . |
| 17 | It would seem , then , that de la Broquière 's statement not only provides good evidence of the existence of the office of Mufti in 836/1433 but also suggests that the Mufti was by then recognizably the chief representative of the spiritual authority of the Seriat , the chief representative of the religious aspect of the state . |
| 18 | An excellent evening meal was had by all , dispelling the myth that you can not eat good food in the UK . |
| 19 | ‘ And did it not make good sense to tell Rober' what is going on ? ’ |
| 20 | But this principle does not constrain the courts to invent an ambiguity or to construe an ambiguity in a way which does not make good sense . |
| 21 | Just as the creoles did not want good government manned by the civil servants of an absolute monarch , so they would not accept rule by a metropolitan parliament , managed by Spanish liberals . |
| 22 | It follows that , because our young men can not earn good money , they can not afford to marry and take their wives out of the labour market . ’ |
| 23 | Even when referring to personal opinion it is not normally considered good style to do so directly . |
| 24 | The authors of the report , John Spicer and Philip Morrisey , say the result is that customers perceive beer prices as rising continuously , Beer is no longer considered good value for money . |
| 25 | A strategy set out in this format does not guarantee good advertising : that depends on the ability of the creative team , helped by the rest of agency account group , to produce a good idea ; on the ability of agency and client to recognize it as such : and the team 's combined ability to turn it into a real , working campaign . |
| 26 | ‘ I just want good health , so I can work again at Chelsea every day , ’ he says . |
| 27 | People are not wanting good furniture . |
| 28 | Do n't worry about some Strangelove of a character turning your innocent little toy into a satellite vaporiser , theory has it that military research is second rate because you can not do good research behind screens of secrecy and away from the cut and thrust of peer review . |
| 29 | Feminists have already made good use of this tradition . |
| 30 | Such packaging generally uses good quality materials , materials which use up valuable natural resources . |