Example sentences of "[verb] [art] good [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This picture incorporates a good many complexities in reality . |
| 2 | This breed can live to 14 years of age , so giving an adult a home should still promise a good few years of companionship . |
| 3 | You 'll need come a good few times and give it three four six months . |
| 4 | She could keep Judi out of it , but ruin a good few careers , businesses and marriages . |
| 5 | Mr Grey 's enthusiasm and energy for the entrepreneurial challenge was contagious , but one could nevertheless feel a good few heels digging in among the bookselling purists at the idea of running a hairdresser . |
| 6 | You were John Mayall 's longest-serving side man , and must have seen a good few guitarists and drummers come and go … |
| 7 | I had decided to enter for a competition for British crime writers , run a good many years ago by Ellery Queen 's Mystery Magazine . |
| 8 | Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ . |
| 9 | With respect to the embalming [ of ] Bodies , the methods that were commonly practised could , I know , have no effect ; at that time I read a good many Books upon ‘ Balsamation ’ but got very little instruction from reading these : according to my own Idea the best way would be to preserve the Body for some time that putrefaction should hardly be able to take place , & that it should gradually get rid of its moisture , & that , when it dried , it should have such imbalming juices in it , that it should resist putrefaction , & the insects at the same time be either kept off or destroyed : I set out with this Opinion & thought that something must be thrown thro' the whole Body : the when the Body was preserved , my Idea of getting rid of moisture was , to place the Body in some strong absorbent substance , & that substance which proved best I thought was Paris Plaister & I thought I could lay in a common Coffin such a quantity of Paris Plaister as would take out all the moisture & then I thought the Body should be rather in a wooden case than a leaden one because the Wood would assist the Absorption . |
| 10 | Oh yeah we 've got a good few mushrooms there . |
| 11 | As with Cornish tin the profits were creamed by the London capitalists who financed a good many undertakings . |
| 12 | I 've had a good few warming-pans in my bed over the years . |
| 13 | I lack a good many things , but money ai n't one of 'em . |
| 14 | He had charred a good many slices of bread and sent several up in flames before he discovered this simple device . |
| 15 | The great city — say at this period a settlement of more than 200,000 , including a scattering of metropolitan towns of more than half a million — was not so much industrial ( though it might contain a good many factories ) as a centre of commerce , transport , administration and the multiplicity of services which a large concentration of people attracts and which in turn swell their number . |
| 16 | ‘ Not exactly the Spaniard who blighted my life , but he looked like he 'd blighted a good few others . ’ |
| 17 | Get a good few hours before light . |
| 18 | Similar diagrams to show the periods of flourishing of various natural groups were used by Richard Owen , Darwin 's chief adversary in England ; illustrations which look Darwinian may not be so in fact , but merely indicate that contemporaries were all wrestling with similar problems , and were sharing a good many assumptions . |
| 19 | Earlier , Nina had been stretched a good many notches too tight ; now , she had snapped , and was flapping limply . |
| 20 | In searching a small file it is also likely that users will enter a good many words which are correct but which the system does not know . |
| 21 | Probably she would have a good few stories to tell about the world they had come from . |
| 22 | Thousands of people trod through somewhat muddy conditions , Mickey was there , what were your thoughts Mickey , did you have a good few days ? |
| 23 | The cast could n't have come from Stavanger 's teeth : he was wounded in the mouth by a piece of shrapnel during the war , and lost a good many teeth , with the result that he wore a plate with artificial teeth in both upper and lower jaws . |
| 24 | Empingham netted its owner £40 a year , and up and down the kingdom could be found a good many manors worth at least as much . |
| 25 | But America 's top shops are learning to apply their bar-code data in ways that might surprise a good many customers who shop more often than Mr Bush — and that signal big changes ahead for store managers , as well . |
| 26 | His legacy wo n't last forever , and I 'm prepared to overlook a good many faults , business-wise , for my sister 's sake . ’ |
| 27 | Banking profitability — not to mention a good many banks — has collapsed over the past decade . |
| 28 | The start was delayed for three hours partly because the bowlers ' run-ups were damp and partly because vandals , protesting about the omission of Deryck Murray , the local captain , had left wet patches on the pitch — and thrown a good few bottles around as well . |
| 29 | ‘ I have wasted a good many minutes hunting about the front . ’ |
| 30 | No no , they will never make a price in Perth now you have terrified them , ’ and Cameron would have to spend a good few shillings to make the drove move on . |