Example sentences of "[verb] a good [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony Foreman , a tax partner in Pannell Kerr Forster , said the BES assured tenancy schemes with non-recourse loans provided a good return for top rate taxpayers ; their 60p in the pound net outlay after tax relief was turned into 72p in as little as six months by a loan . |
| 2 | Initially , the steel toecaps of industrial boots provided a good way of savaging your opponent . |
| 3 | This provided a good defence against swords and arrows , but no protection against a lance thrust or a mace . |
| 4 | In the old large hospitals it was sometimes difficult to detect the strong mutual , informal relationships which developed amongst patients and provided a good deal of support , and , unfortunately , often little account was taken of these relationships when patients were moved from the hospitals into the community . |
| 5 | Manchester provided a good site for developing a dye industry because it was both at the heart of the Lancashire textile industry and it was close to a developing university . |
| 6 | The basic chemical structure common to promethazine and chlorpromazine provided a good basis from which to begin the search for compounds which were better than chlorpromazine , and in the next few years many came into clinical use . |
| 7 | Such publications must be treated critically ; Namier provided a good example of the deflation of a quasi-official authoritativeness in his review of the Survey of International Affairs , 1938 published by the authoritative Royal Institute of International Affairs ( Chatham House ) . |
| 8 | Education provided a good example of the accommodation feminists had to make in regard to scientific theories of sexual difference and the ambivalence many of them felt about the whole issue . |
| 9 | Those of you who are involved in deciding whether to apply for a place in further or higher education will already know a good deal about how to read prospectuses without believing everything they say : what they do not say is just as important . |
| 10 | We know very little about the world history of such ideas and their dialectical development , but we do know a good deal about how things have gone in the main literate civilizations over the past four thousand years . |
| 11 | You will also need a good selection of cloths for cleaning the pictures — pieces of linen work well , as do old T-shirts . |
| 12 | They may need a good deal of support because of these conflicts , yet this is rarely available . |
| 13 | For example , a pupil who is mastering literacy and numeracy with few difficulties will spend a considerable amount of time in the ordinary classroom , but another may need a good deal of specialised help and be at a stage of going to only one or two lessons daily in the fully integrated situation . |
| 14 | Paramo 's Nevada jacket and Prima trousers provide a good way of beating the rain . |
| 15 | Alnair and Al Dhanab provide a good case of colour contrast . |
| 16 | This is a completely new way of funding the universities , and although we think at Birmingham that we can give good value for money and provide a good education at a fair price , this is new territory for us and there could be some surprises on the way . |
| 17 | I try and provide a good selection of music , and sometimes do my own calling . |
| 18 | Does the assumption of a perfectly competitive economy at full employment provide a good basis for the analysis of the incidence of taxation ? |
| 19 | The degrees offered by the department provide a good basis for entering a number of professions , such as teaching in universities , art schools ( especially for those with a combined practical and academic degree ) , colleges and schools , working in museums and galleries , in publishing and in the book trade in general , in auction houses , in arts administration at local or national level , and in the conservation and display of ancient monuments . |
| 20 | Loungers around the pool ( salt water ) provide a good perch for watching the action , and the rig and board storage area is just over the road on the beach . |
| 21 | Not all types of tree provide a good pattern of tree rings , however . |
| 22 | Constructive dismissal cases ( examined in Chapter 15 ) provide a good example of situations in which it is vital to have evidence of conduct on your employer 's part which you find objectionable . |
| 23 | The scheme was not adopted and the results of the feasibility study provide a good example of some of the difficulties that the state has faced in attempting to change the pattern of welfare . |
| 24 | Castes also provide a good example of the process described by Weber as ‘ social closure ’ . |
| 25 | The personal social services provide a good example of a transfer of responsibility for provision from the state to the commercial , voluntary and informal sectors . |
| 26 | The vagaries of currency exchange rates provide a good example of interdependence — given the tendency for changes in value of the American dollar or the German mark to provoke a sterling crisis in Great Britain . |
| 27 | This concentration on long-term mortgage lending means that societies provide a good illustration of the degree of maturity transformation that is possible . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If a good mothering experience can be provided even in late childhood , it can overturn all the bad experiences and provide a good model for the person 's own mothering as well as boost her self-regard . |
| 30 | Women 's hairstyles were copied so rapidly that , for the modern historian , they provide a good indication of the date of a portrait . |