Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Of course , a well-trained Labrador made a good retriever . |
| 2 | The lawyer made a good reply . |
| 3 | No ; it was the romance of the whole thing that was getting to her ; after all , it was n't every day you were whisked away on a white charger … well , a modern car made a good substitute . |
| 4 | By contrast , the bird mentioned in ( 19 ) must be one selected from a group present to the mind of the speaker in the situation of utterance ; this adjective can not be non-restrictive : ( 19 ) the largest parrot made a good supper for the expedition that evening The extraction set in this case might be the parrots we had shot that day . |
| 5 | This study attracted a good deal of interest and replication ( Blacksell and Gilg , 1975 ) and in a massive appraisal of the approach ( Robinson et al . , |
| 6 | However , it was not all one-sided and Hammer gave a good account of themselves in the first half , restricting Haslemere to one goal and going close themselves with long-range shots . |
| 7 | The Association had a good press . |
| 8 | At least the club had a good jazz band , and a first-class cabaret . |
| 9 | It was known that the financial controls within the industry left a good deal to be desired , but when the new Minister of Fuel and Power , Aubrey Jones , tried to tighten up in 1956 ( even beginning the publication of annual investment targets in a bid to increase the Boards ' commitment to them ) , he found it was not easy to impose such discipline when his target was fixed unreasonably low , as the Boards assured him it was . |
| 10 | As he pocketed it he said , with studied casualness , that the pub terrace had a good view of the river . |
| 11 | The pound had a good day , and gained 1.5 pfennigs to Dm2.4138 and almost half a cent to $1.4491 , encouraged both by the prospect of no further cuts in interest rates and the evidence of a modest UK economic recovery contained in the retail sales figures . |
| 12 | If the attack went wrong the assailant stood a good chance of not being identified and if it was apparently successful it would be safe to come down and make sure . |
| 13 | Exhibition board lighting and clear signposting ensured a good attendance . |
| 14 | Accommodation officer David Warman said a local advertising campaign produced a good response , but much of the accommodation offered was already rented to students . |
| 15 | The girl got a good grip on the hatch , and pulled it away , tossing it across the square like a dustbin lid . |
| 16 | Thanks to all present the Sue Ryder Home received a good donation . |
| 17 | She finally heard that a dairyman some miles to the south needed a good milkmaid for the summer . |
| 18 | The problems noted above are intensified for the management of stock revision programmes ; these are carried out by staff who are either subject specialists or who have in the course of the stock revision acquired a good deal of knowledge about the subject literature — certainly more than the line manager . |
| 19 | If the Council did a good deal to catch up with the agenda of the Council of Trent , it did rather little to face the real agenda confronting the whole human and Christian community in the last decades of this century . |
| 20 | I remembered buying an ‘ Orange ’ Protestant newspaper in Enniskillen and reading the editor 's lament that no English literary type had a good word to say about Presbyterian loyalists . |
| 21 | Yes er he eventually er I in fact spoke to a Detective Inspector er at the police station er he informed me that er Detective Constable had a good knowledge of these persons and I therefore instructed that er D C make contact with me which he did a short time later that evening . |
| 22 | The Fontanellatesi had a good sense of humour , which helped us to keep up our morale ; one rather large , well-educated lady called Fiora Gandini was able to make us all laugh . |
| 23 | I did phone one company whose machine had a good write-up but the purchase price had increased by £50 and there was a five week delay . |
| 24 | She and the cleaner stood a good while before the blear-eyed landlord stumbled to unbolt the door . |
| 25 | On his orders the tapster broached a good cask of wine and brought across a bowl of water . |
| 26 | The majority opted for the visit and in my opinion made a good choice . |
| 27 | As a run up to this , the London-based group devoted a good deal of management time to restructuring the US operations , mainly in the sphere of sales and customer support . |
| 28 | It 's the first time the disabled driving championships have been held at Gatcombe and the prestigious venue attracted a good entry of competitors determined to master the challenging course . |
| 29 | It was held that Maidstone market was a market overt because it was established by charter in 1747 and that the innocent purchaser obtained a good title to the car because it was customary at Maidstone market for goods to be sold by private treaty after the auction . |
| 30 | The UK viscose business enjoyed a good year . |