Example sentences of "[vb -s] for a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are to be awkward then my mother will not know where she stands for a good deal of time . ’ |
| 2 | A TOTALLY PSYCHEDELIC GUY , aged 16 , who lives for a good time is out to see if there are any zany females into Pink Floyd , Cult and The Who . |
| 3 | TIM SWALES : Looks for a good season |
| 4 | His imitations of other voices calls for a good sense of mimicry , and should bring the dreariness of his life into focus . |
| 5 | ‘ You must understand , gentlemen , this calls for a good eye , a steady hand — and of course , a total disregard for mother 's nicely-painted ceiling . |
| 6 | One wishes for a good bath at the mere reminder . ’ |
| 7 | Good bonding with reliable adhesives also makes for a good leak-free join . |
| 8 | At weekends it makes for a good day 's outing to take the family for a picnic , after which they can gather as many strawberries as they want at the various fruit farms dotted around . |
| 9 | Of course , Britain is not a democracy of the kind envisaged by those nineteenth-century theorists who focused on the active and informed citizen , and so it is not a democracy that is in accord with the " old-fashioned " liberal-democratic theory of the constitution , but interest-group competition provides for a good working democratic system . |