Example sentences of "[conj] [pron] [verb] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He or she brings good sight and the beginnings of visual discrimination . |
| 2 | Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now . |
| 3 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 4 | The people are very tolerant and it has been overheard that I speak better Portuguese than I do English . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Sally found that she had good abilities in this area . |
| 7 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 8 | I 've noticed that she has good bladder control . |
| 9 | I help my father and I was very glad to hear that you speak good French . |
| 10 | ‘ The main problem with fighting a modern war is that you have good generals and dumb generals , ’ says Ed Taylor , of TRW Defense Systems in California . |
| 11 | ‘ Although we have good employee communications , we thought it best to produce a publication tailored specifically to allay the fears of our fund members . ’ |
| 12 | And that we proivide good quality education for students of 17 to 22 years … and it gets their attention |
| 13 | ‘ It is an investment in our future and it is crucial that we get good returns . ’ |
| 14 | After many conversations , it is my feeling that we need better communication between the youth of Shropshire and the youth of the rest of the diocese . |
| 15 | We 're now attempting to install , or produce those systems so that we have better information . |
| 16 | We are fortunate , you and I , that we have good sons . ’ |
| 17 | As under the 1953 Act , the onus of proving that we have good reason , lawful authority , or one of the other defences , rests squarely with us . |
| 18 | People hear within the market place that , that we give good training , that we do develop people and it does attract good people to join us does n't it , whereas very few people want to join a company where you go nowhere , where you 're not given any training you stay in the same job for ten years and it does nothing for you . |
| 19 | All except one had good mobility ; none was incontinent ; none wandered from home . |
| 20 | Once we have good maps our reactions and actions will be appropriate . |
| 21 | It would be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had good reason or lawful authority for having the article with him or her in a public place . |
| 22 | The time may well have come when the taxpayers of our country need their own union to ensure that they receive better value for their money — rather like local authority ratepayers ' committees . |
| 23 | Otherwise , Sainsbury 's considered that they had good connections in the retail trade — especially through their joint-venture with British Home Stores — and thus their own recruiting facilities were usually adequate . |
| 24 | If the security services were so concerned about this then it clearly suggests that they had good reason to believe that Blake had not been forgotten by the Russians . |
| 25 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |
| 26 | After sitting in the stalls and watching the summer show , the other two were convinced that they had good reason enough to want him . |
| 27 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 28 | Pastures in the Auvergne uplands of Puy-de-Dome and Cantal appear to be heavily used by birds of prey , indicating that they support good populations of small mammals and birds which in itself indicates that the majority are agriculturally unimproved . |
| 29 | We know , moreover , that the more affluent among the old in Britain are more likely to feel that they enjoy good health and less likely to suffer from conditions which restrict their mobility and capacity to participate in a wide range of social and cultural activities than the least well-off ( GHS 1986 ; 126 ) . |
| 30 | She remained serious about reading all her life , taking pains with her five children 's education and recommending that they read good books , " not some of the trash she had seen at Morrison & Gibb " . |