Example sentences of "[verb] a good [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Analysis of oncogenes and tumour suppressor genesmay provide a better guide to tumour behaviour than conventional techniques . |
| 2 | The costs of a new issue provide a good guide to the advantages of the Stock Exchange and to whether or not it is an efficient method of raising funds for firms in terms of costs . |
| 3 | Penguin publish a number of books which provide a good background to first-year courses , including Pen , J. Modern Economics ; Mishan , E. The Costs of Economic Growth ; Stewart , M. Keynes and After . |
| 4 | ‘ And send a good man to Dornberg to find out what 's happening in front of him . ’ |
| 5 | As before , he was concerned to hear that we had enjoyed a good flight to his native city , had found a good hotel and that we were managing to survive the bitter cold , the snow and the ice of a Canadian winter . |
| 6 | I believe stores must invest more in training to provide a better service to customers . |
| 7 | I would argue at least that concentrating a group of students on one course should enable our scholarships staff both to tailor a more relevant course and to provide a better service to students . |
| 8 | Yes and Forest have got to find a better route to goal than that and we 'll find out whether they can in a few moments . |
| 9 | Once a system of law accepts possession as a sufficient foundation for a claim for recovery of personal property it is faced with the question of how far the defendant should be allowed to raise the issue that a third party has a better right to the property than the plaintiff — the jus tertii . |
| 10 | It does not matter that the owner has a better right to possession than either of the thieves . |
| 11 | Another German biologist , Wilhelm Roux , has a better claim to being the father of our subject . |
| 12 | In each case the jurist decides that the beneficiary of the trust has a better claim to the object than the creditor . |
| 13 | This will not benefit the buyer if all the shares are taken up when the transferor is compelled to make a pre-emptive offer , but it does not follow that all of them will be taken up and , if not , the transferee has a better claim to those shares not taken up than has the transferor . |
| 14 | To some extent , the potential harshness of the strict liability rule is mitigated by the fact that , if a person acts in what he takes to be self-defence when he is confronted by another whom he does not realise to be a constable , he has a good defence to the charge , because he is not guilty of an assault . |
| 15 | If the defendant can establish any of the defences mentioned in section 24(1) he has a good defence to any charge under the Trade Descriptions Acts . |
| 16 | Louis Armstrong has a good claim to being the most influential popular singer of the century . |
| 17 | ‘ Just needs a good talking to . ’ |
| 18 | The main types of breach are obviously failure to supply goods or services of the nature or quality promised under the contract , late delivery , and failure to pass a good title to items sold under the contract . |
| 19 | Is it not absolutely clear that the ’ next steps ’ agency approach of the 1980s proved extremely successful in improving accountability , promoting a better service to the public and giving agency employees greater job satisfaction ? |
| 20 | The first of these was the landowning class , the nobility and gentry ; the leaders of the community , whose duty it was to set a good example to the rest , to be ‘ the helpers and releuers of poore tenantes , and also be the maynteynors and supporters of all poore folkes ’ . |
| 21 | If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message . |
| 22 | I was deter , you see I , I have to set a good example to Neil . |
| 23 | Whatever he wrote about Kirkwoods of past ages , no one could have written a better tribute to a family than did Thomson when he described Major Kirkwood and the rest of the present-day family . |
| 24 | book , commandos would be — I believe — the first to accept that those who received awards usually owed a good deal to the support of their fellows , in spirit if not by arms . |
| 25 | Funerals in Wales meant a large feast after the burial and knowing Emily , she could present a good face to the world in spite of her misfortunes . |
| 26 | For about four centuries the rulers of England had been trying to conquer and rule France , Scotland , and Ireland , but they had just lost their last foothold in France at Calais , their position in Ireland was as insecure as it had ever been , and the Scottish problem had taken an altogether new turn because Mary the Queen of Scotland could present a good claim to the English throne . |
| 27 | ‘ The Conservatives want to turn the NHS into an industry , they say that will bring a better service to the consumer , but health should n't be an industry . ’ |
| 28 | On the Welshpool-Llanfair line a good start to the season was followed by a quiet July , but good progress on this steeply graded line is apparent with the Raven Square developments particularly attractive . |
| 29 | The health authority , one of the 30 most efficient in the country , is consulting on third-wave trust status because it believes that it can give a better service to patients and local people on that basis . |
| 30 | As a statutory assignee the legal right to the money in the account passes to him , he is entitled to all legal remedies to recover the money and he can give a good discharge to the bank without the concurrence of the assignor . |