Example sentences of "[adv prt] for 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | It is a popular story that the Fascists did at least get the trains to run on time , and had that been all things might have turned out for the better , but the Duce also evolved the theory of Italia Irredenta , ‘ Unrecovered Italy ’ . |
| 8 | All I can tell you is that much will change , rapidly and dramatically , and that once you get over the shock you 'll discover everything has worked out for the better . |
| 9 | We can only pray and hope it 'll turn out for the best . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ It 'll all turn out for the best , you mark my words . |
| 11 | Yet all turned out for the best : on 20 July 1836 , Daniel Jones returned Benjamin his indenture , only too pleased to inscribe on the back of it the fact that he had appreciated the boy 's seven years with him , and making him a generous gift of five pounds in the process . |
| 12 | ‘ Joan , it will all turn out for the best — I know it will , ’ Anne assured her , seating herself on the edge of the bed . |
| 13 | It would turn out for the best in the end ; it must . |
| 14 | ‘ Oh , it all worked out for the best . ’ |
| 15 | Notwithstanding the merit and extent of his achievements , Gavin Hastings still retains the desire to reach out for the best of which he is capable with as yet undiminished zest : ‘ Unless you set yourself tasks and ambitions , unless you have new targets , there is n't much point in playing . |
| 16 | ‘ Well ’ — she straightened her broad shoulders ‘ perhaps everything 's turning out for the best then . |
| 17 | To have self-confidence is great and it helps when you apply for a new job , but to eat up your seed corn because you 're sure all will turn out for the best is foolhardy . |
| 18 | ‘ Do n't worry , Mary , ’ her mother said , as she said so often these days , her own face a portrait of Anxiety , ‘ everything will turn out for the best . ’ |
| 19 | A feeling all will turn out for the best . |
| 20 | So it , it was it turned out for the best . |
| 21 | ‘ So things worked out for the best , I suppose , ’ Maggie said carefully . |
| 22 | ‘ Strangely , things work out for the best , ’ she whispered . |
| 23 | ‘ It has all worked out for the best , yes ? |
| 24 | Things will turn out for the best , ’ he added cryptically . |
| 25 | I 'm sure everything will work out for the best . ’ |
| 26 | What a load of bull … the bidders fight it out for the best of British beef . |
| 27 | On the other hand there will be a greater onus to shop around for the best home for whatever spare cash you may have . |
| 28 | In 1984 we had ended the opticians ' monopoly and taken off the ridiculous restrictions on advertising which prevented the public from shopping around for the best value . |
| 29 | Have the flexibility of being able to shop around for the best possible deals and get the best professional advice ; |
| 30 | Shop around for the best possible deals and the best service . |