Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In parts of England people still worship Pomona , the Roman goddess of fruit trees , through the custom of wassailing which is intended to encourage a good crop of apples . |
| 2 | Egypt 's nuclear power industry is still in the design phase , but according to Mr. Kandil , nuclear power was the only clean energy alternative for Egypt : ‘ If developed countries want to enjoy a good climate , they should give us these plants at lower cost . |
| 3 | Liberal Democrat Candidate Suzanne Fletcher has received a good luck card from Essex , from a direct descendant of the area 's Liberal MP between 1918 and 1920 . |
| 4 | As well as the effects on trade union activity , a further implication of cross-national bargaining structures which has received a good deal of attention concerns their economic consequences . |
| 5 | He is still one of the most deadly aerial players in front of goal and has formed a good combination with Robert Fleck . |
| 6 | The honours curriculum is designed to provide a good background for many types of work . |
| 7 | Thus , open tipped tubes and intraluminal solid state pressure transducers appear to provide a good estimate of the amount and characteristics of contractile activity . |
| 8 | Most traders , and I 'm sure this applies to those advertising in Guitarist , want to provide a good service and usually do . |
| 9 | ‘ Exercise is a way of life and if this station wants to provide a good service they 'll always need it . |
| 10 | I 'd vote for anyone who 'd promise to provide a good road link between Hereford and the motorway . |
| 11 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 12 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 13 | A conference on AIDS has attracted a good response from businessmen in the Alton area . |
| 14 | The presence of Asian women advice workers has attracted a good response from the Asian community and the informality is attracting more family and personal enquiries of the sort that people may have felt uncomfortable about bringing previously . |
| 15 | However , its involvement in the conflict in Nicaragua , acting as the main host country to the Contras , has attracted a good deal of US aid and military personnel and has led to the increasing militarization of society . |
| 16 | It is an excellent establishment and has attracted a good deal of support and resources from the private sector . |
| 17 | The case of Nigeria has attracted a good deal of scholarly attention in this respect and is worth looking at more closely . |
| 18 | Some of the things a good caddie was expected to know included a good knowledge of the game , to be able to advise the player on which club to use at any given moment ; a knowledge of the course , the length of its holes , its geography from tee to green and the subtleties and borrows of those greens , as well as the way it played in all weather conditions . |
| 19 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |
| 20 | But there are exceptions and one is Leslie Waddington who has enjoyed a good volume of business at ARCO where he will be exhibiting for the third successive year . |
| 21 | As an example , take a spider in which each individual needs to find a good place in which to put its web , but good places for making webs are in short supply . |
| 22 | He added : ‘ It seems a bit of a nonsense to struggle to provide a good service and then for compensation awarded by the Ombudsman to come out of the money provided for the work in the first place . ’ |
| 23 | This early framework for sensory physiology — of a piece with the Hobbesian idea of ‘ the organ proper to each sense ’ — has undergone a good deal of refinement . |
| 24 | The aromatic strength of the leaves has ensured a good deal of domestic and perfumery use , and it is also decorative , its pale blue flowers lasting many weeks and being much visited by bees . |
| 25 | If the vendor is to feel that he has secured a good deal , then he , like the buyer , must feel that he has won some concessions . |
| 26 | And marvel ( if Channel 4 has secured a good print ) at nephew Claude Renoir 's colour photography — assertively scarlet and cobalt for the players , decoratively pastel for the court . |
| 27 | He has built a good team and has a wonderful opportunity and the will to see it through . |
| 28 | Anyone who bought before the 1988 boom has seen a good return on their investment . |
| 29 | Finally , that a poet has written a good poem does not mean he or she is always capable of another , and to read Duck 's career as an arrested development may be sentimental . |
| 30 | Whereupon Johnson observed that it did not necessarily follow ‘ that a man who has written a good poem on an art , has practised it ’ , citing excellently instructive verses on cider by a man never known to have made any . |