Example sentences of "[vb past] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was a control which required active defence , to which the Cinque Ports contributed a good deal , particularly in the late fourteenth century . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Initially , the steel toecaps of industrial boots provided a good way of savaging your opponent . |
| 5 | This provided a good defence against swords and arrows , but no protection against a lance thrust or a mace . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 ) . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 ’ . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | I succeeded almost immediately and found a good alignment of moats ending at Gill 's Lap pine clump on Ashdown Forest , one of the marks noted by Tony Wedd . |
| 25 | When Beatrice visited the canteen in October 1914 she found a good deal of atmosphere , although there was no beer or wine . |
| 26 | Interest in the nature of society was not lacking in the sixteenth century , and in one way or another commentators found a good deal to say about it . |
| 27 | I had the opportunity to visit the north-west on Monday , where I found a good deal of buoyancy and confidence in the future of the north-west and of the country as a whole . |
| 28 | ‘ I found a good place on the bus , on the top deck , right at the front , where you can feel the warmth coming up through a grating ’ ( here and there a head nodded understandingly ) ‘ and see the view . |
| 29 | The rooms could have been empty , it was impossible to tell , and in fact when I came to the special dining car I found a good number of the passengers sitting at the unlaid tables , just chatting . |
| 30 | In this study we found a good agreement between the two tests , particularly considering the fact that they measure two different variables — namely , bile acid losses and bile acid synthesis . |