Example sentences of "[adv] of [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've lost my job when money 's been tight , regardless of the good work I did and the commitment I showed . |
| 2 | The acceptance of the tax cut in the House last month , against the wishes of Democratic leaders , has used up much of the good will cautiously built up earlier in the year for a medium-term , bipartisan deficit-cutting campaign . |
| 3 | Poverty amongst the lower classes was an expected and accepted facet of societal structure and education was rarely of a good standard , being intended for a lowly station in life , laced with religion and related to prescribing the sanctity of the sabbath . |
| 4 | Also , the engines originally ran on ‘ Pool ’ petrol which was not of the best quality . |
| 5 | These were not of the best quality ; lighting in the first instance was oil , then gas , but on the introduction of electrically lit stock , the batteries were always run down or low in the winter , and described by one wag , a regular user of the service , as reminiscent of ‘ a red hot hairpit ’ . |
| 6 | Edvard Munch , whom many art historians would describe as one of the greatest print-makers of the century , fails to qualify as ‘ blue-chip ’ , despite occasional high prices at auction , because he often used poor quality paper and the impressions are not always of the best quality . |
| 7 | The men who come to the colonies from France are not always of the best quality . |
| 8 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 9 | Our target route — the splendid Tudor Rose , which takes a stunning line up of the best section of the cliff above Guillemot Ledge — remained unfulfilled , as we found handling a clutch of fine HVS and VS routes fully occupied our energies , leaving us totally sated . |
| 10 | The surgery was equipped with the usual furniture but out of the best catalogue : desk and swivel chair for the doctor , a couple of hygienic-looking chairs for patient and friend , drugs and instrument cabinet , couch , wash basin , and glass-fronted bookcase . |
| 11 | Mansell managed to negotiate himself out of the best car in Formula One , despite winning the world championship for the first time . |
| 12 | Hopes here of a good second , at the very least … |
| 13 | Those were not the circumstances at Bilsthorpe , but the mines inspectorate insist they were right to allow the roof bolting in the tunnel , or narrow driveage that 's despite the fact that on one side instead of a good coal pillar , only wooden props supported the roof . |
| 14 | Acting for the buyer of a leasehold interest , remember that nowadays one seeks to register with an absolute title , instead of the good leasehold title that some time ago was much more common and acceptable . |