Example sentences of "[that] the good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , awkwardly , schizophrenically , these twisted sickos are taken up by the right-on , their cause espoused in the same breath as calls for a better world the assumption being that the better things in life — hip hop imports , clothes , socialism — would undoubtedly cohabit in utopia . |
| 2 | The Italian government , concerned that the better things should remain in Italy , were delighted to hear that many of them only made the journey by canal from the Cannareggio to the piano nobile of the Palazzo Malpiero . |
| 3 | It may be felt that the better course is not to deal with such matters in the partnership agreement itself but to leave the offer of consultancy to be produced as an inducement to or reward for retirement at such time as may appear to be in the firm 's best interests . |
| 4 | Dooling and Lachman argue that the better performance of the subjects who were told the title of the passage reflects their greater ability to organise the words in the passage in memory . |
| 5 | It may well be that the better education of orphan girls was a particular feature of the experiment . |
| 6 | They are not cheap , but they have features that the better player wants and the average player needs . |
| 7 | ‘ It is n't unlike golf in that it has a handicap system so that the better player can play against a less experienced person , ’ said the father-of-two . |
| 8 | Research by Jim Cummins and others showed clearly that the better kids develop their first language , the better they do in English . |
| 9 | Does my hon. Friend accept that the good farmers of Hexham are grateful for his sincere effort to look after the interests of farmers in the less-favoured areas ? |
| 10 | The plans for the coming year indicate that the good work will continue . |
| 11 | ‘ He could n't face the harsh , cold reality of telling his wife and children that the good life was over , that his days of living in lovely Rancho Santa Fe were numbered , ’ said the source . |
| 12 | They can often be blind to the fact that the good child may be stirring up the problem and letting the naughty one get the blame . |
| 13 | We are not suggesting that the good alignment we observed between the results of using equations ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) and the analysis of amplitude histograms means that release probabilities are identical at all sites or that n is always invariant . |
| 14 | The recent surge in stockmarket volume and the hasty dusting-down of the houses ' new-issue departments threaten to bring quick profit back to the industry and delude its bosses that the good times are returning . |
| 15 | But , the view is that the good times have not gone away for ever . |
| 16 | Even when things had apparently gone well for fifteen years , the thinking population had been saying that the good times can never last : Surely enough , they came to an end in the mid 1970's . |
| 17 | Barbara Coleman would detest the solitude , the place would bring back memories of the good times and she would be confronted more than ever with the evidence that the good times had gone . |
| 18 | We always said that the Good Housekeeping Institute was unique , and the job requirements are too ! |
| 19 | ‘ I came in for a lot of criticism but I know in my heart that the good things I did there were very conveniently swept under the carpet at the time . ’ |
| 20 | He asserted that the good people of Inverness owed all they had to the previous conquest and occupation by Cromwell . |
| 21 | I 'm sure , I 'm sure that the good people of will be the first to appreciate the great sacrifice made on their behalf . |
| 22 | But there are many other possible reasons why first-century Palestine may have been the ‘ right ’ place and time , such that the good communications in the Roman Empire would be helpful in the spreading of the Christian message after the resurrection . |
| 23 | Anderson ( 1971 , pp. 125–7 ) argues that the good wages which young people could earn in the cotton towns in the mid-nineteenth century altered the balance between parents and children and put them on more equal terms when they shared a household , and also made it more possible for them to leave the parental home — although boys did this more often than girls . |
| 24 | It is in the small area of our own conscience and our own personal behaviour that the good angels and the bad angels are wrestling over our souls , an idea which is both stupendous and slightly comic . |
| 25 | As the Gospel narrative unfolds we are quickly made aware that the good news signifies more than rescue from divine wrath . |
| 26 | But we must never forget that the good news of the Incarnation is that God 's supreme revelation is of personal liberation which we can all experience in Jesus Christ which in turn will help to shape and mould those structures which we have considered . |
| 27 | Christians believe that the good news of the message of Jesus is for all people . |
| 28 | Passages [ 17 ] and [ 18 ] are respectively the unemended and emended versions of a short extract from Chapter 17 of Samuel Butler 's The Way of All Flesh ( changes of wording have been italicized ) The extract concerns the birth of the book 's hero , to the younger son of George Pontifex : [ 17 ] Now , therefore , that the good news [ viz of the birth of Theobald Pontifex 's son ] came it was doubly welcome and caused as much delight at Elmhurst as in Woburn Square [ it caused dismay ] , where the John Pontifexes were now living . |
| 29 | He maintained that the good news about Jesus had a clearly defined form . |
| 30 | The bad news is that the good news made me feel so relieved and excited that I ran out to a bar and drank a bunch of big ones . |