Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] [art] good [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In my opinion the true themes of religion are being lost in all the disputes surrounding it and the fact the religion is a force for the good needs to promoted . |
| 2 | The mixture of anger and guilt which overwhelmed his widow made it impossible for her to grieve and weep for the loss of the good things shared in the early days of their marriage . |
| 3 | Certainly , according to Hardie , ‘ in the case of allocating insurance premiums on particular lines of cover when setting individual budgets for the following year , head offices could look at their operating units ’ past claims records and load them on the poor performers while even awarding the equivalent of no claims bonuses to the good ones . |
| 4 | I was pretty well broke by then , but thanks to the good offices of Msgr John Esseff , they were taken in by the Sisters of Charity , the Most Reverend Mother Teresa 's order , who hid them out in a convent in Spain . |
| 5 | He lay down on his bed , dreaming of the wonderful time the reindeers would be having , delivering all the presents to the good boys and girls . |
| 6 | Randolph worked his hardest , pulling away , while Santa delivered all the presents to the good boys and girls . |
| 7 | During the war the government took powers over public transport , and when the Grand Junction sought to take advantage of the good prices then being obtained for scrap metal , dismantling and disposal of the lift was forbidden . |
| 8 | It seems sensible to take advantage of the good days in order to make allowance for any excess eating on the difficult days , and dieting calorie intake can be averaged out on a weekly basis . |
| 9 | Self-assertive and uncompromising , Malins led a protest against the racial policies of the Good Templars in the American South , which culminated in a secessionist IOGT of the world , dominated by the grand lodges of England and Scotland , during 1876–87 . |
| 10 | Bit of a , bit of a good darts player . |
| 11 | The first-born child , after seven years of marriage — an arranged marriage through the good offices of a shadchan ( matchmaker ) … was Carl in 1906 . |
| 12 | Together these two concepts give the key to both the sculpture and the inspiration for its bold commission by The Royal Bank of Scotland through the good offices of a non-executive director , Angus Grossart . |
| 13 | When she is older I will send the child to a good girls ’ school and see that she is taught English . |
| 14 | Rabbi Klinitsky-Klein and his family had escaped to Canada through the good offices of a Jewish agency in 1923 — the sort movingly described by Norman Glimotsky in his My Life , My Destiny . |
| 15 | The Bandung communiqué had stressed the urgency of an early solution , and strong Afro — Asian support was expressed for the Indonesian case at the UN though eventually the familiar device of a Good Offices Commission was accepted . |
| 16 | We are well aware we must do that but I 'm sure we will with the confidence of the good displays in the World Cup behind us ’ . |
| 17 | Some say that this is still a ‘ jobless ’ recovery ; or at least , as Dick Gephardt , the leader of the Democratic majority in the House of Representatives , argued on May 11th , a recovery with no good jobs . |
| 18 | ‘ Master Parry , I have so much confidence in the good offices of your daughter that I have brought with me the letter of which I spoke to her . |
| 19 | The Mondays is a party and the Roses is an enigma , and we 're the musicians with the good melodies . ’ |
| 20 | Gary helped him with his chemistry and deserves much of the credit for the good grades William got in tests when he got back ( the teachers were amazed ! ) . |
| 21 | And in the mist-wraithed frosty field , she told his corpse about the good times ahead while Trask and Khaur closed her future in their night . |
| 22 | Barbara Coleman would detest the solitude , the place would bring back memories of the good times and she would be confronted more than ever with the evidence that the good times had gone . |
| 23 | Erm paragraph twenty one , we 'd certainly oppose any move to give local authorities the right to cease homes of travellers erm especially in view of the shortage of the good pitches I that is just totally and I do n't think that that 's on , I hope we can oppose that . |
| 24 | ‘ I believe we have a chance of a good points finish , but of course it all depends on how we qualify on Saturday . |
| 25 | J. B. Priestley recognised this in the extract chosen by Mr Hamilton from The Good Companions : ‘ … it [ Bruddersford United AFC ] offered you more than a shilling's-worth of material for talk during the rest of the week , a man who had missed the last home match of t'United had to enter social life on tiptoe in Bruddersford . ’ |
| 26 | In turn , she told him of her life under Benedicta 's wing , making him laugh when she related her earlier antics and gave creditable impersonations of the good Sisters . |
| 27 | And a gold-plated pen , the one he had once used for signing autographs , a memento of the good days . |
| 28 | But what was most interesting was her praise of the good characters . |
| 29 | The spectacle last week of 400 officers in riot gear running round the Broadwater Farm Estate and finding little or nothing in the way of drugs reminded me of Sir Robert Mark 's definition of a good police force as one which employed fewer criminals than it caught . |
| 30 | There have in fact been achievements in the care of the mentally handicapped in our society , and one of the fundamental barriers still to be broken — that of public opinion — will only come from a more positive attitude among the media to the good things that are happening . |