Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The direction of your movements should always be towards the heart to encourage a good flow of blood , and therefore nutrients , to the part being treated . |
| 2 | The Socialist government of Sr Felipe Gonzalez saw lower consumption forecasts due to lower levels of economic growth as offering the opportunity to establish a better energy balance . |
| 3 | Moreover , people in personal crisis are not very effective at making their needs felt in socially acceptable ways ; they do not organize themselves into consumer pressure groups to demand a better deal , not at least until they are recovered from their own crisis . |
| 4 | TRANMERE won their long fight to provide a better standard of competition for their reserves today when they were admitted to the Pontins League . |
| 5 | A central feature of the government 's binary policy and the concept of a ‘ public sector ’ was the decision to concentrate a good deal of advanced work in a new generation of ‘ polytechnics ’ — a title borrowed from an earlier response to technological and economic demand — the generation of polytechnics created in London in the last two decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 6 | Aberdeen Royal Infirmary patients are to be surveyed in a bid to provide a better service . |
| 7 | SHARES in John Ritblat 's British Land soared yesterday after the property group announced it was splitting the company in two in an attempt to provide a better deal for shareholders . |
| 8 | In an attempt to obtain a good price , he paid a stud fee of over £1,400 to have her covered again so that he would be able to sell her in foal at the December 1974 sales . |
| 9 | I did , however , manage to persuade Bantam to use a better photograph on the British edition than the miserable and out-of-date photo used on the American edition . |
| 10 | The best type for a luxury lawn , these cut with a scissor action to give a good finish . |
| 11 | Its lumbering hulk drops down over our heads to land a good mile away . |
| 12 | 1.3 These emphatic results have given the trade union a clear mandate to pursue a better settlement and we are therefore not in a position to accept the current offer . |
| 13 | You can lay cold-roll macadam over old concrete , paving or existing macadam to give it a new surface , but it 's difficult to lay over hardcore with an ordinary garden roller — you need to put down two layers and use a hired plate vibrator to get a good result . |
| 14 | Please take the break to have a good rest , because you never know when The Marauders will be coming to visit you ’ . |
| 15 | Confident that your market research tells you that peoples ' houses are overrun with mice , and having used technology from the nuclear industry to develop a better mouse trap , you still have to tell people about it . |
| 16 | Elaine leant back in the car seat to get a better look at him . |
| 17 | I turned round in my seat to get a good view . |
| 18 | Checking that the straps on her equipment were tight enough to prevent anything moving and making a noise that might alert anyone nearby , Ace slipped through a stand of bushes to get a better view of the road . |
| 19 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |
| 20 | There was something odd in the way Faye was looking … no , peering … at those pictures , shifting the book or her head as if she had to see past some obstruction to get a good look . |
| 21 | Daisy watched an expectant Trace Coley re-arranging her Panama in the driving mirror of her father 's Rolls as Brigadier Canford put on his spectacles to have a better look . |
| 22 | Jimmy pushed Frye to one side to get a better view . |
| 23 | " But we are n't going towards them , captain , " protested Joseph , standing on the bottom rail and craning his neck to get a better view . |
| 24 | I would imagine it 'll be a very , very similar sort of game , er hopefully we 'll get the right result , but it 's good for the club to have a good run . |
| 25 | Equal opportunities to earn a good living are cental to our vision of a better life for all . |
| 26 | They are then cut by one of the several methods to effect a good join . |
| 27 | These may be small operations with one or two senior public relations executives with a shared secretary , with sufficient turnover to make a good living . |
| 28 | But not necessarily in a negative way : he had used his blackness to become a better boxer . |
| 29 | The concept of assessing foot volume instead of width to achieve a good fit is another idea borrowed from ski boot technology . |
| 30 | Gilding — the laying of gold leaf on to surfaces — requires a great deal of patience and practice to achieve a good result . |