Example sentences of "[adj] and [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , there are quite a number of reasons for this and the good news , I think , that I bought good news again this morning is that presentations both about budgets er , and about what we do wi with the small churches is , er , could be some of our salvation . |
| 2 | You want to be light and a good conductor of heat . |
| 3 | ‘ Twenty-one and a good bit . ’ |
| 4 | I found it boring , self-conscious and a good deal sketchier than the Balzac novella on which it 's based . |
| 5 | As we shall see in the next chapter , the consequence of this stiffness is that timber has had to evolve a work of fracture mechanism which is quite different and a good deal more ingenious . |
| 6 | His toes were warm and a good colour , and there was no sign of swelling above or below the plaster . |
| 7 | It is a hall church , simple and a good stone example . |
| 8 | He is honest and a good craftsman , committed to high standards of preparation and presentation , but otherwise generally easygoing . |
| 9 | She was a pretty girl with fair curly hair and brown eyes , very self-possessed and a good dancer . |
| 10 | Normalised data is stable and a good foundation for any future growth . |
| 11 | Answering , she matched my silly spite with careful , sensible remarks ; politics , she said , was the art of the possible and a good man , once in power , might find himself forced to do some things not quite in accord with his principles , but this did not mean he had forgotten them , nor that he would not act upon them the moment he practically could . |
| 12 | However , this may not always be possible and a good list will be categorised in such a way that sections can be taken out and used as appropriate . |
| 13 | My only blurred thought was to reach shelter as soon as possible and the good belay spelt one word — abseil . |
| 14 | She is a strict disciplinarian treated with great respect by her customers , but she is kind-hearted and a good friend to Lizzie Hexam . |
| 15 | The rooms are back to normal , but much tidier and a good deal cleaner . ’ |
| 16 | Tall and a good driver , he finished with 613 runs at 24.5 . |
| 17 | It 's the same job as an editor of a publication has to get writers to go along without it all sounding like he wrote it or she wrote it , and the , but a good editor can figure out how to do that and a good writer likes it because it means erm they 'll go together or work better and readers will like it , understand it . |
| 18 | Such data are usually extensive and a good deal of compression can be achieved by working in fixed format mode where each item of data for a sample unit occupies its own particular field ( position ) in the line being typed . |
| 19 | Consideration , yes — anything less is to use one 's partner as a sexual object and less than human and a good deal of sexual dissonance between partners is a result of lack of this mutuality of feeling ; but to allow consideration of a partner 's pleasure to override the joy of sex for oneself is not only unfortunately genteel and polite , it may mean that the partner 's pleasure is actually diminished by one 's timorous courtesy . |
| 20 | ‘ Yes , well , that 's natural and a good sign . ’ |
| 21 | The pony , though fast and a good jumper , had a mouth of iron and was almost impossible to control . |
| 22 | The ‘ foreign interests ’ of the Federal Republic of Germany , in terms of Blackmun J. 's tripartite analysis , were seen as particularly compelling and no good cause had been shown for doing other than resort to the Convention 's procedures . |
| 23 | ‘ If you handle this right you get five grand and a good name from me . |
| 24 | So I was wrong when I thought they were fantastically healthy and a good advert for the Jungle . |
| 25 | The list is endless and a good receptionist will seize every opportunity to sell the services of the hotel without over-selling and appearing pushy , so that the highly developed selling technique becomes an art . |
| 26 | They represent the agency and so should be personable , likeable and a good mixer , successful with the client on and off the set . |
| 27 | Shirer was later to meet Joyce under more adverse circumstances , finding him more likeable and a good deal braver than he had supposed . |
| 28 | To become commercial , though , the magnets will have to be made at least two-three times more powerful and a good deal lighter than they are today . |
| 29 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 30 | ‘ Despite her faults , Bertha is capable and a good housekeeper . |