Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] the good " in BNC.

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1 Now the search is on for the best container display in Britain .
2 In Guatemala too , the 1980s marked a high point of repression in a political conflict which has been going on for the best part of thirty years .
3 They talked on for the best part of an hour , ending in agreement that there was no solution to this problem , short of the mass emigration of millions .
4 The search is on for the best pancake tosser in the North .
5 And he did so with the support , not only of Hoare , who was his adjutant in all the talks with the Government , but also of Cunliffe-Lister , Hailsham , Eyres-Monsell and Davidson , the last being brought in as the best means of liaison with Baldwin .
6 It 's only ten years since the Comedy Store opened , but already there is a note of wistfulness creeping in for the good old days .
7 Share his festive fare with your family , or treat them to Jill Goolden 's splendid New Year 's Eve party nibbles — all washed down with the best wines and cocktails .
8 La Hepburn is the all-time Oscar champion , with twelve nominations spanning forty-nine years — and four wins , from Morning Glory in 1932 to On Golden Pond in 1981 , without once stepping down into the Best Supporting category .
9 We review both in ET along with the best new music and theatre .
10 The winner will carry off a camera and their entry , along with the best runners-up submissions , will be featured in Watchword , the national magazine of Watch .
11 sing along with the best of them .
12 Top arrangers such as Gerry Mulligan and Bob Brookmeyer along with the best British writers have written scores exclusively for it .
13 And even though it was generally accepted that they , along with the better known chimps of East Africa , were our closest relatives , few would have guessed that their relationships would be , well , so very human .
14 This re-coalification , along with the good seal by evaporites of the Zechstein and Bunter Formations , seems to be the reason for the development of numerous gas fields on the South Oldenburg Ridge which , moreover , is characterised by a flat doming of the Upper Carboniferous and therewith by good conditions for gas accumulation .
15 Along with the good humour , it is a reminder that Young 's personality , like his music , is prone to abrupt changes of mood and temperament .
16 What the Independent very badly needs is very solid professional newspaper management er to go along with the good franchise which it has created erm and a proper owner who can actually er do what all of us in newspapers have to do from times to times which is back a promising newspaper .
17 While murmurs of hope return to the streets of Cardiff , Australian prepare for their 16th international against Wales with coach Bob Dwyer admits : ‘ A win here would go down alongside the best of our achievements while I have been in charge . ’
18 By the end of 1923 levels were down to the best pre-1921 records for Saratov .
19 Thankfully there were no injuries and he and Ave Barlow managed to make it down to the best of the mountain safely .
20 It 's a special signal or you tune in , not to a certain frequency , but to Radio One and then wherever you go in the country it , it tunes in to the best transmitter .
21 Arguments about merit have never really gone away , and many people have felt that the extra effort put in by the best students need to be recognised .
22 He announced that courts would be given powers to bind parents over for the good behaviour of their children so that they could be ‘ brought face to face with their neglect ’ .
23 ‘ I know you are only trying to help but the sooner we get this over with the better .
24 The sooner this is over with the better . ’
25 I 'm here for one reason — to do a job , and I mean to carry it through to the best of my ability , with or without your approval .
26 Starting off with the good Presbyterian family of Mr Moffatt at the corner — one of his daughters , Mrs Victoria Mullen , married a Methodist — there followed in order Englands , Magowans , Lyttles , Bells , McClatcheys , Lambs , Ramseys and Pattons .
27 Professor Klaus Pinkau , director of the Max Planck Institute for Plasma Physics , points out that there are drawbacks to centralising research away from universities — for example , academics who in theory have time and resources for research are cut off from the best facilities .
28 The European champions got off to the best possible start when the full-back Graeme Rutjes headed them into the lead after 12 minutes .
29 If you have practised all the new skills available to you with the K858 , you could , at this stage , create a garment combining a selection of textures that all go well together , choosing from Fair Isle , lace and cables and placing them to set each other off to the best advantage .
30 ‘ I do n't think that quite sets it off to the best advantage , sir . ’
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