Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his first term , Reagan and his staff eventually developed a better appreciation of the merits and responsibilities of legislators and came to realize that the making of policy required the executive branch to ‘ bargain with , cajole and otherwise court the legislative branch ’ . |
| 2 | We have all enjoyed the good value in price and cover offered by Autocover , our own Car Insurance Scheme , for the past eleven years . |
| 3 | However , since then , Walsh , Gloucestershire 's beneficiary for 1992 , has not only enjoyed the best Test match spell of his career but , in revitalised fashion , he has been the early pace-setter by some margin in the English first-class bowling averages . |
| 4 | They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week . |
| 5 | She preached about the passover , a subject they had been studying at Bible camp , and obviously made a good impression . |
| 6 | Having apparently made a good case ( to wit , the UK now spends nearly two per cent less per head on education than in 1980 ) it starts talking about education . |
| 7 | Further , the retardation of maturity not only preserved a better brain/ body-weight ratio but also extended the period of educability and cognitive development which characterizes primate childhoods . |
| 8 | Of the two , Christie 's not only offered the better quality sale , but also presented their material with more conviction . |
| 9 | Then when you 've all found a good combination , you do it for a while , then you turn on the tape machine … |
| 10 | The announcement was-carefully worded to stress the financial aspects of the study but it none the less generated a good deal of hopeful excitement as well as sceptical anxiety . |
| 11 | The stock dove almost disappeared from some areas , but , like other species that were hard-hit at the same time , it has since made a good recovery . |
| 12 | Rohmer smiled again , and this time it was as if he 'd just heard the best news of the evening . |
| 13 | At Sotheby 's New York on 21 October last , five clocks of second-rate quality ( the property of a collector who had already dispersed the best part of his collection ) sent auction prices rocketing . |
| 14 | The increasing though still very minimal panicipation of women in managerial , technical and higher professional occupations within the corporation has already attracted a good deal of attention , but there is little research specifically on the phenomenon of the female salariat in TNCs in the Third World ( see Garnsey and Paukert , 1987 , pp.57–67 ) . |
| 15 | The South Africans nevertheless made a good start , reaching 79 for one in the 20th over , but the loss of the assured Hudson ( 50 in 66 balls ) and of Kirsten in the space of three overs left the middle order with a daunting task . |
| 16 | He did n't hate her , and he certainly did n't want to hurt her , but he knew he had just done the best thing he could ever do for Sandra Bamfield . |
| 17 | The daughter has finally made a good marriage , after a dodgy one . |
| 18 | On a seller and buyer summons the court declared that the seller had not made a good title , and ordered the return to the buyer of the buyer 's deposit on the equitable principle that it is a seller 's duty to disclose fully and frankly in the contract any title defect . |
| 19 | Nadia has already seen a good deal of Scotland , and also went on a school trip to France and Belgium when pupils of St Mary 's accompanied members of a pensioners ' lunch club to find out about the European Community and the European Parliament . |
| 20 | Afterwards as the plaudits for the winner died down , Homer confided in me : ‘ You 've just seen the best jockey since Jonjo O'Neill , ’ and who would argue with that assertion nowadays ? |
| 21 | ‘ But actually I 've just bought the best electro-acoustic I 've ever seen or heard — a Takamine . |
| 22 | ‘ I have not had a good day ; in fact I have not had two good days . |
| 23 | ‘ Young people become homeless because they can not get a job and they can not get a job because they have not had a good education . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ He has not had a good season with injury and must be a bit depressed — he wants to be playing . |
| 25 | The House has not had a good record in the past years . |
| 26 | The hostility to alleged traitors took extreme form in the murders of Sudbury , Hales and Cavendish , and equally strong was the dislike of the King 's uncle , John of Gaunt — his palace of the Savoy was burned down ( although it is uncertain whether the Kentishmen or the Londoners played the leading part in this ) and he would probably have shared the fate of Sudbury and the others if he had not had the good fortune to be in the North negotiating with the Scots . |
| 27 | Oxford actually while it was open had a good reputation amongst prisoners for the relationship between staff and prisoners . |
| 28 | He says he 's already had a good response . |
| 29 | But the further they go the more interesting they get and of course er the visitors tonight have already had a good win . |
| 30 | But they 've already had the best part of a week in which to forget . ’ |