Example sentences of "[to-vb] good the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The degradation of many soils such as those in East Anglia , England , to the extent that they are scarcely more than a physical retention medium for chemical fertiliser and moisture ( Kirkby 1980 ) , does not have the same social and economic impact as degradation of soils where the land users do not have , and may be predicted not to have in the future , the resources to make good the degradation by the application of massive doses of fertiliser ( see also Heathcote 1980 , Rennie 1982 ) . |
| 2 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 3 | The obligation on member states to make good the damage is also based on Article 5 of the Treaty , under which the member states are bound to take all appropriate measures , whether general or particular , to ensure fulfilment of the obligations arising under Community law … . |
| 4 | It follows from the foregoing that Community law lays down a principle according to which a member state is obliged to make good the damage to individuals caused by a breach of Community law for which it is responsible . |
| 5 | The person whose grass or corn is eaten down by the escaping cattle of his neighbour , or whose mine is flooded by the water from his neighbour 's reservoir , or whose cellar is invaded by the filth of his neighbour 's privy , or whose habitation is made unhealthy by the fumes and noisome vapours of his neighbour 's alkali works , is damnified without any fault of his own ; and it seems but reasonable and just that the neighbour , who has brought something on his own property which was not naturally there , harmless to others so long as it is confined to his own property , but which he knows to be mischievous if it gets on his neighbour 's , should be obliged to make good the damage which ensues if he does not succeed in confining it to his own property . |
| 6 | ‘ Anyone caught damaging lights also has to make good the damage , and that can be very expensive . |
| 7 | During the interim period the USA promised to attempt to make good the damage caused by Mount Pinatubo 's eruption . |
| 8 | Secondly , as new residents in homes will be able to claim housing benefit under the new proposals , why can not housing benefit be claimed as a way of helping to make good the shortfall ? |
| 9 | Furthermore , under subsection ( 3 ) if the directors fail to make good the default within 14 days after the service of a notice requiring compliance , the court , on the application of the Registrar or any member or creditor of the company , may make an order directing the directors or any of them to make good the default within such time as may be specified and may order them to pay the costs of and incidental to the application . |
| 10 | Furthermore , under subsection ( 3 ) if the directors fail to make good the default within 14 days after the service of a notice requiring compliance , the court , on the application of the Registrar or any member or creditor of the company , may make an order directing the directors or any of them to make good the default within such time as may be specified and may order them to pay the costs of and incidental to the application . |
| 11 | No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them . |
| 12 | In other cases , Zuwaya threatened reprisals for injuries suffered : they might have to make good the threat , but usually persuaded their antagonists to pay compensation . |
| 13 | But what function had the saints in heaven if not to make good the deficiency ? |
| 14 | And the increasing use of charters in lawcourts naturally created an incentive to forge , as those who had lost or never enjoyed documentary proof of their rights strove to make good the deficiency . |
| 15 | The reason for this pledge was to make good the cut in benefits that resulted from the breaking of the link between these benefits and earnings or prices — whichever most favoured the claimant . |
| 16 | In such cases the agent 's liability is to make good the detriment thus caused to the person to whose rights he consented . |
| 17 | He saw himself , ten years on , a querulous old man complaining in self-pity : What company have my children ever been to me ? — and forgetting that he had sent them so lightly away from him , Blanche across the sea to Heidelberg , to a husband she had never seen ; Philippa , possibly , to remote Denmark ; Thomas , only this Spring , to be titular governor and keep his court in Ireland , and try to make good the wrack and ruin of castles and garrisons there . |
| 18 | Then turn right again to make good the inbound holding track back to the holding point . |
| 19 | You will be aiming to make good the Inbound Track . |
| 20 | In an attempt to make good the teacher shortage schoolchildren were encouraged to stay on at school to do teacher training by circular No. 1654 in 1947 . |
| 21 | For all its efforts to make good the loss of over 100 years , Poland was not invited to join the club of industrialised nations . |
| 22 | The scope of the innkeeper 's duty is further limited by s.2(3) : where the proprietor of an hotel is liable as an innkeeper to make good the loss of or damage to property brought to the hotel , his liability to any one guest shall not exceed fifty pounds in respect of any one article , or one hundred pounds in the aggregate , except where — |
| 23 | In communication terms he is introducing redundant information to make good the loss in the system . |
| 24 | Claims ( for what they may be worth ) for indemnity from a miscreant partner will more readily be encountered in the context of fraudulent activities in relation to the misapplication of money or property received for or in custody of the firm , to which s11 of the Partnership Act is directed : In the following cases ; namely — ( a ) Where one partner acting within the scope of his apparent authority receives the money or property of a third person and misapplies it ; and ( b ) Where a firm in the course of its business receives money or property of a third person , and the money or property so received is misapplied by one or more of the partners while it is in the custody of the firm ; the firm is liable to make good the loss . |
| 25 | The sale was to have comprised both the unpaid for items and pieces from Mr Narita 's collection , acquired at a Tajan auction in April 1990 — the Japanese businessman having proved sensitive to Tajan 's repeated pleas to make good the difference . |