Example sentences of "[to-vb] the good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next , Peter Jenkins , the respected political commentator of The Sunday Times , writing on the possible impact of such men as Kenneth Baker and Kenneth Clarke brought into the Cabinet in the September 1985 reshuffle ( in alliance with existing Cabinet members such as Douglas Hurd and Norman Fowler ) : ‘ It is not easy to reassert Cabinet government in the face of determined prime ministerial power but the new Cabinet contains a group of capable and ambitious men of political middle age who are not eager to sacrifice the best years of their careers for the sake of someone else 's ‘ conviction politics ’ . ’ |
| 2 | They wished to restore the good name of physics . |
| 3 | We want to restore the good image of football . |
| 4 | In place of bureaucracy , revolutionary leaders would simply need to borrow the best models furnished by the advanced countries and employ existing functionaries in the service of the new state . |
| 5 | Students often object to the expense of textbooks , but remember that all your friends will be trying to borrow the best textbooks from the college library . |
| 6 | The challenge to the Lord Chancellor 's Department is to preserve the best features of the tribunal system while providing the necessary advice and support needed by claimants to ensure that all of them put their cases at their best . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And she would do it , Emily clenched her hands into fists , she would fight to the last breath to keep her heritage and to preserve the good name of the Grenfells . |
| 9 | They are keen to preserve the good achievements . |
| 10 | It is , in fact , a diversion of resources away from the priorities which existed at the end of 1988 which were to develop the management accounting skills of the NHS : particularly to promote the better use of resources through the RMI . |
| 11 | For women , money purchase schemes are problematic in that early contributions are likely to promote the best returns , yet younger women typically leave the labour force for several years and/or work part-time on motherhood . |
| 12 | The important thing for us is to promote the good name of dealers , and even more , to promote an interest in art and collecting . |
| 13 | The purpose of the state was to promote the good life of its citizens and to develop the moral nature of man . |
| 14 | The greatest composer in the world , if he lacks an interpreter to suit him , is like a man prevented from speaking by a gag ; and this evening it was you who acted as the interpreter to untie the gag , the messenger to carry the good news . |
| 15 | The squire who was sent south to carry the good news to King Henry overtook him at Daventry on the 20th of September . |
| 16 | In short of having before your Lordship a very complicated er array of procedural options , er the , the view that has been taken by , my lead was the most appropriate er course was to come and argue the issue substantially and then in the light of what your Lordship rules thereafter to see the best way forward in terms of further procedural applications to your Lordship . |
| 17 | If hon. Members are dissatisfied with my list , I can also cite the example of a distinguished former Member of the House , Mr. Alick Buchanan-Smith , whose principled support of devolution all his political life was , among many other factors , a proper mark of his integrity and desire to see the best government for Scotland . |
| 18 | ‘ With the highlights package , now at last they will be able to see the best cricket at the time they will want to watch it . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ With the highlights package , now at last they will be able to see the best cricket at the time they will want to watch it . ’ |
| 20 | Summer approaches and with it comes the summer grass court season , your chance to see the best players in the world . |
| 21 | The idea that people needed to be shown from where to view the lakes , hills and mountains developed into the ‘ stations ’ or points from which to see the best views to the best vantage . |
| 22 | For years those fans have suffered the frustration of supporting the team through thick and thin only to see the best seats at big matches filled by the detested ‘ fur-coat brigade ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ I 'd like to see the best refs take the best games . |
| 24 | Even when it was something bad , like the mice-damage in the apple room , or the wasps ' nest in the orchard , or even your husband jumping off a plane and dying , she managed to see the good part of it . |
| 25 | We all have a deep longing to see the Good News of Christ 's love spreading throughout the world . |
| 26 | Dot preferred Mrs Hollidaye 's way of talking , always trying to see the good side of things . |
| 27 | He also always managed to see the good side of a person , and would defend them as he saw fit ( ie Rodolpho ) which shows a very christian type of behaviour . |
| 28 | Lots of people do n't like him , and some actively loathe him , but try to see the better side . |
| 29 | Francis Bacon advised King James to hold on to his royal wastes and hunting forests for exactly this potential ; and , as if to confirm the good sense of such drainage enterprises , a series of bad winters between 1607 and 1613 created some of the worst floods in living memory . |
| 30 | ‘ But everyone is just trying to cope the best way they can with the injuries before them . |