Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] [verb] good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ONE CAN but wish the publishers of all good luck in getting their money back on this book , for , much as all cricketers should not only strive to become good fielders but enjoy the process of improving their game , how many will lash out nigh on £15 for a manual to help them do so ?
2 Schools must calculate the ‘ True cost ’ of letting facilities which will probably reflect an increase in charges , but will generally want to have better facilities and community involvement to attract recruitment .
3 They were desert-dwellers , so Moses could scarcely have had better preparation for the wilderness journeys with Israel than these years of nomadic life .
4 The 1991 results are likely to be poor but , as the dominant UK credit insurer operating in the longest and deepest recession for many years , one can hardly expect to see good figures .
5 If you would also like to play better golf then send for his brochure .
6 The Royalist Roman Catholic French would probably have made better conquerors of Ireland , if Ireland had to be reconquered once more .
7 She must also have had good sources of information , as she was said to know all the gossip of the village .
8 The prospect for the future is that a modernising Soviet economy might even prefer to buy better quality equipment from elsewhere .
9 Subjects may instead simply have given good estimates of the risk which they would have felt had they been actually present in the situations .
10 Had he survived , the old chap would surely have found better ways to fritter this weekend .
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