Example sentences of "[vb past] [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The facts came to light when a former Brent librarian , J.T. Gillet , read the good news that a new library had been opened in Brent .
2 They got the good dividend .
3 At first Anne felt indignant with Joe , but when she thought it over , realised the good sense of his warning .
4 After lengthy negotiations , which kept raising the price , an over-extended General Motors paid $4.5 million for Cadillac in 1909 , and then used the good name of Leland and Cadillac to borrow more money to expand its empire further .
5 Sweetheart was going to be a model , too , but not until the school 's principal found the good sense to send her maliciously jealous sisters-in-law packing .
6 She looked at him sharply , finally found the good sense to tug her arm out of his hold .
7 You found the good bit !
8 But it was a control which required active defence , to which the Cinque Ports contributed a good deal , particularly in the late fourteenth century .
9 In Edinburgh at the time , there were various schools which might come under this heading , including the Merchant Company schools which provided a good education originally for children of humble backgrounds , but increasingly for middle-class children .
10 Tony Foreman , a tax partner in Pannell Kerr Forster , said the BES assured tenancy schemes with non-recourse loans provided a good return for top rate taxpayers ; their 60p in the pound net outlay after tax relief was turned into 72p in as little as six months by a loan .
11 Initially , the steel toecaps of industrial boots provided a good way of savaging your opponent .
12 This provided a good defence against swords and arrows , but no protection against a lance thrust or a mace .
13 In the old large hospitals it was sometimes difficult to detect the strong mutual , informal relationships which developed amongst patients and provided a good deal of support , and , unfortunately , often little account was taken of these relationships when patients were moved from the hospitals into the community .
14 For a given histogram ( in this case the histogram from Fig. 1 c ) , an ‘ autocorrelation score ’ was calculated by subtracting the best-fitting smooth distribution ( in this and many other examples a single gaussian provided a good fit ) , filtering the resulting difference function in the Fourier domain , then detecting peaks in its autocorrelation function .
15 Manchester provided a good site for developing a dye industry because it was both at the heart of the Lancashire textile industry and it was close to a developing university .
16 The basic chemical structure common to promethazine and chlorpromazine provided a good basis from which to begin the search for compounds which were better than chlorpromazine , and in the next few years many came into clinical use .
17 Knowing general family traits provided a good starting point and from assorted references I began to get an idea of the species I could hope to find myself and those for which I 'd need help .
18 Such publications must be treated critically ; Namier provided a good example of the deflation of a quasi-official authoritativeness in his review of the Survey of International Affairs , 1938 published by the authoritative Royal Institute of International Affairs ( Chatham House ) .
19 Education provided a good example of the accommodation feminists had to make in regard to scientific theories of sexual difference and the ambivalence many of them felt about the whole issue .
20 Needless to say the proposed settlement — widely publicised — drew a good deal of criticism , almost entirely from the Left who were for a variety of reasons extremely hostile to white Rhodesians .
21 The outcome ( perhaps this would have happened whoever had been at the Ministry of Labour ) was that most of the principal figures of the Government devoted a good part of their time to assisting Steel-Maitland in his job .
22 Finally , he devoted a good deal of attention to the problem of the implications of his general historical approach for understanding the character of Christianity itself , particularly in The Absoluteness of Christianity ( 1901 ; E.T .
23 As a run up to this , the London-based group devoted a good deal of management time to restructuring the US operations , mainly in the sphere of sales and customer support .
24 Self and Ernest Long , the secretary , devoted a good deal of thought to methods of budgetary control which would make decentralisation possible , but the headquarters engineers , still deeply distrustful of anything from Self , had little conception of the financial and management principles of decentralisation .
25 He also devoted a good deal of his investigations to the extraordinary satin bower-bird , a native of the area and so called for its remarkable habit of building and decorating a sort of stage-set , in which it would perform ritual mating dances .
26 The pacemaker maintained a good gallop as the runners swept away from the stands down towards Swinley Bottom and still had the lead as they made the long right-hand turn with just under a mile to go .
27 With this in mind I phoned a good friend who runs a detector shop and asked whether he had any decent second-hand machines for sale of the same type as my old one .
28 Passing Scalpay , Johnson suggested to Boswell that they buy the island , ‘ found a good school ’ on it , and an episcopal church , ‘ and have a printing-press where he would print all the Erse that could be found ’ .
29 But as those boxing her in came away from the rails at the entrance to the home stretch she found a good run up the inside , and when Teleprompter ran out of stamina with just over a furlong to go Pat Eddery shot the favourite into the lead and made for the wire .
30 Next day we found a good army doctor who examined Rachel and said with care she would soon be well , the M & B had done its work , and then to add to our trouble you all went down with scarlet fever — caught on the boat I expect .
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