Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Football has been the other major sport and has always produced good teams , and Halling must have been among the first to play under floodlights . |
| 2 | LEICESTER HAS always produced good bands , and the latest crop is no exception . |
| 3 | The recession has clearly presented good buying opportunities to Prospect Industries though Philip Wilbraham denies he is a vulture purchaser who has been picking up bargains on the cheap . |
| 4 | For one thing , ICI now scrubs the wastes clean and makes money on the products and has also made good use of heat previously going up the chimney stacks . |
| 5 | Privatization has also allowed good managers to manage and succeed . |
| 6 | Motability has also negotiated good discounts on new cars on behalf of purchasers . |
| 7 | This is consistent with the results we reported earlier showing good performance on the causal task ( see Table 3.1 ) . |
| 8 | She 'd always had good food and warm clothes and a comfortable house to live in . |
| 9 | We should also do more to pay good classroom teachers . |
| 10 | ‘ Father , ’ said Master James earnestly , ‘ I never before saw poor devils living wild wearing good leather jerkins and solid boots , and daggers fit for a baron 's guard . ’ |
| 11 | For example , the investment management section of a financial organisation is advising customers to buy shares in a company which is thought generally to have good prospects ; unknown to that section , the company has consulted the corporate finance department of the same organisation about how to deal with serious losses it has suffered but which are not yet publicly known . |
| 12 | The wines produced here have good structure , balance and fruit and are of dependable quality . |
| 13 | ( She was very surprised , and for a minute she forgot how to speak good English . ) |
| 14 | As a general rule , Dobermanns usually have good appetites and , therefore , it is not uncommon for them to get fat — a combination of too much food and too little exercise is not good for this breed ! |
| 15 | In a responsive and efficient manner , they have demonstrated how to deliver good services at an affordable price . |
| 16 | This , if it is original , would suggest that Luke saw the Holy Spirit as the supremely desirable object of prayer ( as in his version of the saying of Jesus , recorded in 11:13 , ‘ If you , being evil , know how to give good gifts to your children , how much more shall the heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him ’ — compared with Matthew who reads ‘ good gifts ’ for ‘ the Holy Spirit ’ ) . |
| 17 | This is an area where techniques of distributed AI ( DAI ) and distributed databases ( DDB ) blend together to provide good solutions to many industrial problems such as investment advice systems , intelligent manufacturing systems , automated engineering systems , air-traffic control , network management , travel plans , complex diagnostics systems , real-time monitoring systems , and so on . |
| 18 | ‘ I know him better as a friend , ’ Louisa confessed , ‘ having always enjoyed good health . ’ |
| 19 | But we were brought up to read good literature , to be great readers and I hope we do n't lose our traditions . ’ |
| 20 | As I told Denny d'Arcy , the Sidcombe manager , when I rang up to say good riddance , ‘ We are just the amoeba on the European footer lake . |
| 21 | She left him lying there and went down to say good night , treading on the paint at the side of the stairs to spare the carpet as Mr Evans had told her to do . |
| 22 | Although all are good single scullers , they are not to Olympic singles standard , but combined they looked yesterday to have good potential . |
| 23 | It was a favourite thing to hire journalists for they presumably knew how to write good press releases and would have excellent contacts in the media world . |
| 24 | Attired in these , the girls could come downstairs to say good night after their bath . |
| 25 | Just as the creoles did not want good government manned by the civil servants of an absolute monarch , so they would not accept rule by a metropolitan parliament , managed by Spanish liberals . |
| 26 | Israel 's great sin was n't that it did not do good things — but that it did not obey the Law , the Torah . |
| 27 | The warehouse proprietor was unaware of B's purchase and himself bought them from A. It was held that the warehouse proprietor did not acquire good title , since being already in possession of the goods he did not take delivery under the contract of sale . |
| 28 | A school that , though equipped with a sixth form , did not have good A level results could be picked out as an inefficient school . |
| 29 | Many teachers from the south of Nigeria were employed and they do not speak good Hausa . |
| 30 | Some do not offer good prospects . |