Example sentences of "[verb] a [adv] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alas John , my day was spoilt , not by two teams who provided a reasonably good game but by people who should have known better . |
| 2 | Soon he will need a really good teacher . |
| 3 | The pattern of change of many of the houses built before 1700 , and the fluctuating fortunes of their owners provide a pretty good history lesson . |
| 4 | It may have been from a belief that deputies provide a less good service , although published research has shown high patient satisfaction with deputies . |
| 5 | And promised a really good time . |
| 6 | Saunders added : ‘ It is becoming a very good team with the defence looking really solid . ’ |
| 7 | I 'd like to write a really good love song — did I say love song ? — I du n no , a song about my girlfriend and my daughter . |
| 8 | Remember , at this time you could buy a really good Martin flat-top for around forty dollars , but the cheapest Tri-Plate — the plain , unengraved Style 1 — would cost you eighty-five dollars . |
| 9 | Although anti-abortionists would maintain that it is morally wrong to dispose of a child even if it will live no longer than a week at the most , many more people doubt the right of a mother to dispose of a child with Down 's Syndrome who stands a very good chance of living a lengthy life . |
| 10 | Mrs Ewing said : ‘ This decision , coupled with the pledge of support which I secured from John Major in Strasbourg last December , means that Europe 's least densely populated area stands a much better chance of receiving justice . ’ |
| 11 | They want a damn good touch ! |
| 12 | ‘ They say she is a very good housekeeper and I want a very good housekeeper because my house will be perfect . |
| 13 | All hybrid teas and the majority of the floribunda roses have to be dismantled petal by petal if you want a really good end result , and then re-assembled for use in the pressed flower picture . |
| 14 | Patients attending the cystic fibrosis clinic in Melbourne were found to have a good outlook with respect to employment and social life , and a study at the Brompton Hospital characterising clinical and social features of patients attending its cystic fibrosis clinic found a similarly good outlook . |
| 15 | His name overpowered all objection , and we found a very good house and civil treatment . ’ |
| 16 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 17 | It also seems to provide a rather better description of how to create and modify patterns that the original Illustrator 88 manual — or perhaps that 's just because the subject is being tackled in context rather than as an academic exercise . |
| 18 | I 'm very sorry about that because I believe that that money could be better spent within the fire service on other matters to provide a much better service to the general public . |
| 19 | We would therefore be able to provide a much better service . |
| 20 | What is more , the table is remarkable in revealing a progressively better record for successively smaller sizes of factory ( although medium-sized factories ceased to fall in number in the mid 1980s , and all figures are influenced by contracting units moving from a larger to a smaller category ) . |
| 21 | ‘ Then I was lucky enough to find this place , and at the same time to find a very good agent who managed to get me plenty of work . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ You 've picked a fucking good time to pay people a visit ! ’ |
| 23 | Not surprisingly , really , for in his limited first-class exposure he has looked a much better wing or perhaps outside centre . |
| 24 | At first glance , Lambeth 's 2.25% discount from its standard rate for the first 12 months of the loan looks a slightly better deal than Portman 's 2.0% discount for the same period . |
| 25 | That looks a pretty good job , sweeping the floor , though I 'd rather have a go on the sweeping machine . |
| 26 | We can for example say that in West Germany erm a worker who 's paid contributions for forty-five years gets an old-age pension that amounts to about seventy-five percent of what he was taking home in take-home pay before he retired , and obviously this looks a much better deal than the British old age pensioner gets . |
| 27 | Sludds , winner of the title in 1984 , has been struggling unsuccessfully to make an impression on the European tour , but now looks a very good bet indeed for the £10,000 first prize in the Irish Championship . |
| 28 | Now the systems analyst has a pretty good knowledge of the capability of the computer , and the user has a fairly good idea of the problem in his department . |
| 29 | When you do , the first notable sight along the road is the small church of Gotein , two miles below Mauléon , which has a particularly good clocher-calvaire or saw-toothed bell-wall with , at the foot of it , a porch which is actually wider than the nave of the church itself and a covered wooden staircase going up the side . |
| 30 | Laura Ashley has a particularly good spring and summer range for children up to the age of twelve , with styles that are attractive without being prissy . |