Example sentences of "[vb pp] the good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had to have travelled the better part of five miles cross country and another two from the edge of town in order to reach the Cathedral . |
| 2 | Previous losses have fallen heavily on members of some syndicates , giving rise to claims that insiders have diverted the best business to selected syndicates and channelled the higher risks and charges to ‘ dustbin ’ syndicates , with a high proportion of investors with little or no knowledge of the business . |
| 3 | The Peckham trucks are said to have given the better ride , but being built up from a number of separate parts , required more frequent maintenance than the Brill trucks , whose main component was a solid forging . |
| 4 | He had absorbed enough knowledge of lighting in his career to know who was being given the best spots , and he fought all the time to get Therese pushed out when he was on stage . |
| 5 | Boys in those days they were always given the best education . |
| 6 | These are the best teams in Wales and as such given the best chance — better , for sure , than Wales — of upsetting the New Zealanders . |
| 7 | ‘ I 've given the best years of my life , ’ he faltered , and was unable to say more . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd given the best years of my life to television . |
| 9 | Modigliani was given the best room , all white and clean , ‘ where he never did sleep very much ’ . |
| 10 | And if you are lucky enough to stumble upon a village show you will be warmly welcomed and given the best seats in the house — which might mean a patch of ground under the village banyan tree . |
| 11 | Given the good will that exists between the copyright libraries , the Ordnance Survey and other interested parties such as the Public Record Office ( whose concern is with the digitised database as a public record ) a solution will almost certainly be found . |
| 12 | NORTHERN Ireland butchers have been given the good news they can compete in a major English contest to find the country 's top sausage-maker . |
| 13 | Middlesbrough whistler Jeff Winter has been given the good news that he has been promoted to the Football League middle for the start of next season a distinction held by only 90 referees in the whole of the country . |
| 14 | If further size analysis is to be undertaken the best procedure is to use two identical sub-samples . |
| 15 | She 'd never seen either of us in a suit before — we were running them in , checking for labels we 'd missed and so on — and we had stood on her doorstep as if we were about to launch into the ‘ Have you heard the Good News … ’ routine . |
| 16 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 17 | Mr Salmon told me that he 'd heard the best barrows were being sold off in the Old Kent Road , on account of the fact that so many young lads were heeding Kitchener 's cry and joining up to fight for King and country . |
| 18 | They have sullied the good name of their country ; they desperately wanted to make an impression on Europe and they have — in the most unexpected way . |
| 19 | KAREN MELLOR has located the best deals in London , Britain 's other major cities and in national chain stores . |
| 20 | In Bacon 's books , Sprat says , ‘ are every where scattered the best arguments , that can be produced for the defence of Experimental Philosophy ; and the best directions , that are needful to promote it ’ , while according to Glanvill ‘ all the main heads of natural history have received aids and increase from the famous Bacon , who led the way to substantial wisdom , and hath given most excellent directions for the method of such an history of nature ’ . |
| 21 | There 's just one snag about being voted the best pub in Britain — so many toasts of congratulation there 's a danger of running out of beer . |
| 22 | Trevor 's daughter Tracy was the star of the evening , and has been voted the best raffle ticket-drawer we have had ! |
| 23 | Raleigh 's Activator Two , the first mass-produced bicycle with full front and rear suspension for better handling and greater control , which is now on show in the museum , was voted the Best Bike of 1993 at the Harrogate Cycle Fair . |
| 24 | She has been voted the best assistant in the store by her colleagues , and goes on to the next leg of the competition , the district semi-finals on April 10th . |
| 25 | Boro midfield player Graham Kavanagh was voted the best player in the tournament . |
| 26 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |
| 27 | CEREDIGION and Pembroke North MP Cynog Dafis has been given a Greenhouse award by Green Magazine after being voted the best newcomer to Parliament . |
| 28 | During an earlier panic about garotting robberies and stabbing incidents in 1856 , The Times had enjoyed the good fortune actually to discover some real foreigners to blame for the outrages , pointing the accusing finger at ‘ men who have been discharged from the foreign legions ’ . |
| 29 | For each of these eleven years our members have enjoyed the good value offered by Autocover in price and cover . |
| 30 | We have all enjoyed the good value in price and cover offered by Autocover , our own Car Insurance Scheme , for the past eleven years . |