Example sentences of "[v-ing] [verb] the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | An all-female catering unit from Hainault , Essex , has won the first stage of a nationwide competition being held by Sutcliffe Catering to find the best Indian theme day at one of its units . |
| 2 | Cider makers and drinkers have been gathering to find the best farmhouse cider in Britain . |
| 3 | I 'm about 5'7 ’ and found it fitted me fine , although as with all sacks , it took a couple of days of walking to get the best adjustment . |
| 4 | There 's nothing sinister or mysterious about wanting to preserve the best aspects of the working class tradition — the humour , the camaraderie , the sense of shared experience and shared hardships . |
| 5 | To the cynical and not so cynical , it seemed clear that Britain was seeking to secure the best of two worlds : to take advantage of the market opportunities for its own industrial goods that a free trade area would provide , while still retaining its special economic arrangements with the Commonwealth , especially its cheap food policy . |
| 6 | Natural selection gives the responsibility for progress to the individuals who make up the population ; in seeking to do the best for themselves , they help to guarantee the future of their species . |
| 7 | Outside in the street , huge crowds were already gathering , joking and laughing , and pushing to get the best places near the great black platform , where the rope hung ready for its morning 's work . |
| 8 | I 'm all in favour of the Government seeking to get the best value for money , but HMSO is not a private company . ’ |
| 9 | Mr Newton , choosing his words carefully , said the Government would ‘ certainly ensure the needs and interests of western Grampian and Argyll and Bute are taken fully into account at the same time as seeking to achieve the best outcome for the Highlands and Islands ’ . |
| 10 | Mrs Banham said : ‘ Stephen is going to miss the best part of his first and most important year of school due to illness with ear infections . ’ |
| 11 | The office is attempting to establish the best way to encourage more competition in the industrial market following the agreement with British Gas . |
| 12 | ‘ If we are going to build the best stadium in England , it must be matched by the team . |
| 13 | After the tax had been abolished and the boycott lifted , Rank compounded his incompetence by deciding to keep the best playdates for his mix of low-budget featurettes and big-budget pictures . |
| 14 | However , if you think your anger is going to get the better of you , then you 'd better be realistic and responsible . |
| 15 | I mean , you 're just in a cell , you 're locked up , it makes you think , ‘ Right , that was my mistake , but next time I 'm going to get further , I 'm going to get the better of them . |
| 16 | Nathan Bryce might have a temporary advantage , but no slate-eyed , ruthless , mercenary businessman with a calculator instead of a heart was going to get the better of her . |
| 17 | The simplest form of analogy is to change the historical setting for the event , for instance , attempting to place The Good Samaritan in a contemporary setting , or doing the reverse of this — taking some contemporary problem such as racism and setting it in past times , in a context between , say , the Jews and the Samaritans or the Greeks and the Romans . |
| 18 | Norma said that she was going to spend the best part of the day as the guest of the Mayoress of Brighton — lunch in the Royal Pavilion — and then tea at the Marina . |
| 19 | To do that you 're going to need the good will of the workers within the centre , the local community , the workers within Moat and the different factions within Moat and the one thing that the Tory line did was to unite all those factions against what the county council wanted . |
| 20 | It was our first home , and we were going to make the best of it . |
| 21 | However , if you are going to make the best use of your Z88 , you need to understand what you are doing . |
| 22 | The row that followed the announcement of a programme of drilling to find a suitable site for burying high-level waste — and resulted in the programme being called off two years ago — has led NIREX to abandon any hope of drilling to find the best geological formation for the intermediate waste . |
| 23 | Therefore he strove to understand nature , and had ‘ The habit of wishing to discover the good and the Beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me ’ , thereby becoming in touch with ‘ plastic and vast , one intellectual breeze , At once the soul of each , and God of All ’ . |
| 24 | 1993 will continue to be a year of challenge and change as we consolidate our position as market leader aiming to generate the best financial performance in the industry . |
| 25 | I liked to find my own stories — and I was just beginning to place the best of them in national papers when I was whisked off for two years ' National Service . |
| 26 | If you can hold your feelings and examine them , force yourself to hear the voice and ask why it produces the response that it does , you are beginning to get the better of it , to break the fearful silence that surrounds it and , incidentally , to add another voice to your writing repertoire . |
| 27 | A worthwhile accessory for the home woodworker aiming to make the best use of a router . |
| 28 | The concrete plinth exhibited similar stoicism , having withstood the best that several generations of secondary schoolboys could formulate and explode against it . |
| 29 | Having bought the best you can afford and laid it properly , you should keep it clean . |
| 30 | Having had the good fortune to fall in with Gabriel outside Cat 's Coffee Shop as she was on her way home , he had seized his chance and asked her for an early supper . |