Example sentences of "[adv] for good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps even die , ’ she tacked on for good measure . |
| 2 | It seems more likely that the Khmers Rouges decided not to disrupt the election , perhaps for good reason . |
| 3 | Take your governing body licence along for good measure . |
| 4 | Network South East has its patriotic red , white , and blue bands with grey thrown in for good measure . |
| 5 | We ate the fish and polished off some cider while we watched the bombers blasting Caen , the British guns along the Orne joining in for good measure . |
| 6 | Like a David Goodis noir novel reset in Deptford with an extraneous espionage plot thrown in for good measure |
| 7 | More significantly , for the long term future of the industry , it has launched into a series of alliances , including a development partership with long-time rival Apple , with chip maker Motorola thrown in for good measure , and former IBM allies Intel and Microsoft left out in the cold . |
| 8 | It usually ended up as a slow jog with a buck thrown in for good measure . |
| 9 | Where we used to see an organ with its automated conductor and maybe a waterfall thrown in for good measure , we now have canned music and disc jockeys aping their favourites from radio or TV and hoping against hope that one day they too may be discovered . |
| 10 | The game itself is an interesting mix of platform hopping and hand-to-hand combat , with a few subgames thrown in for good measure . |
| 11 | Not that it 'd need to — Grandmaster Chess might be showing its age a bit , but if you can put up with its idiosyncrasies it 's a bargain at £1.99 , especially with Renaissance Othello thrown in for good measure . |
| 12 | ‘ One paper , by Paige ( 1967 ) , for example , quotes Lenin 's ‘ who does what to whom ’ , and Mao 's ‘ war without bloodshed ’ , reminds us of the more familiar formulations of Lasswell ( 1936 ) — ‘ who gets what , when , how ’ — , Easton ( 1953 ) — ‘ the authoritative allocation of values ’ — , Levy ( 1952 ) — ‘ the allocation of power and responsibility ’ , and Snyder ( 1958 ) — ‘ the making of authoritative social decisions ’ , and throws in for good measure a definition by a Japanese political scientist , Masao Maruyama — ‘ the organization of control by man over man ’ . |
| 13 | He offers everyone a serious comparison of Keaton and Charlie Chaplin ( with Harold Lloyd and Fatty Arbuckle trivia thrown in for good measure ) , revealing that Keaton was , for him , the true genius on account of his invention and comic daring . |
| 14 | The quadriathlon , still in its infancy , is basically a triathlon with a gruelling canoe leg thrown in for good measure , and East Anglia has one of the leading exponents in this new sport . |
| 15 | Also profiting from the New Europe , with a sprinkling of gardening thrown in for good measure , is Weidenfeld and Nicolson with J.M. Dent 's Germany : Architecture , Interiors , Landscape , Gardens by Christa von Richthofen with photographs by Oliver Benn ( £30 ) . |
| 16 | This is very much a ‘ people ’ story and concentrates on the day-to-day happenings in The Mob , with a fair amount of humour thrown in for good measure . |
| 17 | This is the new , raunchy Kylie ( I use the word ‘ raunchy ’ in its broadest possible sense ) and ‘ Let's Get To It ’ is basically eight desperate attempts at funkiness with two token ballads thrown in for good measure . |
| 18 | Rory would be nothing more to him than a pleasant extra thrown in for good measure . |
| 19 | The ability to laugh at themselves was never more evident as the three took their audience on a comic tour of Jewish life as we know it today with a smattering of politics , anti-semitism and Zionism thrown in for good measure . |
| 20 | We sat around the table , searching frantically for explanations and hoping unavailingly for good news . |
| 21 | Benjamin died there in Gower Street on 10 October 1879 , death from cancer and exhaustion being certified as the cause by J. M. Briggs , M.R.C.S. Consistently inconsistent to the end , he is given as a ‘ Silversmith ’ on the will , but as a ‘ Writing Clerk ’ on the death certificate ; just for good measure we are also given a final address for him to add to our collection : 355 Edgware Road . |
| 22 | Honour having been saved , I for one was certainly not going to argue but , just for good measure , I hurled a few more insults back at the towering colossus who was marching towards us . |
| 23 | Gregg Allmann has a brooding bit part as the all-purpose Mister Bad and , just for good measure , there 's a born-again bigot sheriff expecting the impossible from his cops . |
| 24 | Shot in eight episodes , this serial , again from the Newman/ Paice/Hulke/Verney team , included an extra name on the credits — Derek Freeborn , responsible for the very demanding Visual Effects , including working model rockets , a fight between two dinosaurs , a miniature Venusian city and , just for good measure , an erupting volcano . |
| 25 | The youth obliged , adding a further string of expletives , just for good measure . |
| 26 | ( Of course , if the power is evil it is quite likely to be wielded by a female and just for good measure she is likely to be ugly . ) |
| 27 | In 1988 the university purportedly terminated the applicant 's contract of employment not for good cause but on the ground of redundancy , giving him three months ' written notice . |
| 28 | Thus Fairbank developed the interest and skill which led the first Baron Bridges [ q.v. ] to write of him when seventy ‘ No man of our time has done more for good handwriting , whether for the individual or the community , than Alfred Fairbank . ’ |
| 29 | I would like the Bill to contain a first offence penalty of a six-month custodial sentence — with no remission and no time off for good behaviour — in a properly funded and managed institution . |
| 30 | With several newly qualified teachers and many more awaiting initiation , they literally ‘ Swung ’ all over the place — adult institutes , local church halls , fetes , in fact in or on anything that would give them a few square feet of space ; one Essex teacher even did a two year S-T-R-E-T-C-H in H.M Prison , Holloway and got time off for good behaviour ( a class of course ! ) . |