Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] the good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't deliver these resources overnight but I can say that when we talk about building the Best Banking and Financial Services Group , we do n't simply mean the best for our shareholders . |
| 2 | The signatories of the Charter have accepted responsibility for maintaining the good code of practice and also agree to disseminate the document through their organisations , encouraging their managers to actively participate . |
| 3 | Data analysts must not be put off using the best techniques available in case they are misunderstood , but they have an important responsibility to explain what they have done to try to ensure that misunderstandings do not arise . |
| 4 | A rich , moist soil and an open situation he considered ideal for producing the best blooms . |
| 5 | After spending the better part of the morning crouched down painting skirting-boards , she felt as though she 'd been put through a mangle . |
| 6 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 7 | A lord taking over a forfeited estate could not entirely take for granted the good will of the affinity , at least in the short term . |
| 8 | It is very important that we recognize the possibility of accepting the best features of comprehensive schools while getting rid of the worst , remembering with reasonable humility that the schools were introduced in the first place as experimental , and that all the trial and error may not yet be over . |
| 9 | This , some researchers think , is not an effective way of stimulating the best research : some element of competition or selectivity is necessary . |
| 10 | ENGLAND are planning a tour of South Africa in 1994 as part of their long-term aim of becoming the best rugby side in the world . |
| 11 | The Arsenal pair might just be capable of staging the best road show since Hope and Crosby — but Ipswich had very few laughs at Highbury . |
| 12 | With close colleagues there is more chance of explaining the best way of ‘ making it easy for them ’ , of getting them on your side as allies . |
| 13 | As a result , they have the knack of employing the best architects , but not getting the best out of them . |
| 14 | He wanted people to get on with the urgent business of living the good life set out in the Eightfold Path , and not to waste time or energy in speculation and debate . |
| 15 | Though her long musical career has seemed very erratic , the overview provided by Greatest Hits 1965–1992 from I Got You Babe and the brilliant Gypsies , Tramps and Thieves right up to The Shoop Shoop Song — proves she has a great voice and a devilish way of picking the best tunes . |
| 16 | And yet , for this crucial deciding match , they stopped short of picking the best XI for the circumstances . |
| 17 | Prospects for long-term forecasting are being examined , with the aim of recommending the best approach to use . |
| 18 | When you accept these books , you not only save £21.51 ( and the Lotto Game comes free ) ; you automatically become a member of this celebrated Club with over twelve years ' experience of recommending the best children 's books . |
| 19 | Although clients like to boast of buying the best advertising advice , they do n't always have the sense or the courage to take it . |
| 20 | Mr Clarke said social services departments would ‘ use their own , voluntary or private provision , according to which they judge the best way of providing the best quality service ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ The endeavours of a man truly good , ’ he once wrote , ‘ are not confined to this or that particular design , but lay hold on all opportunities of doing the best service he can to the souls and bodies of mankind . ’ |
| 22 | Questions were asked after each problem , and at the completion of the task , to obtain the following objective information : 1 ) the ease of use of each program , 2 ) the insight gained from using each technique , 3 ) the aid given by each technique in attaining a solution , 4 ) the user preference , and dislike , for the techniques , 5 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving insight , 6 ) the technique thought to be most capable of giving the best design , and 7 ) the subject 's engineering and computing background , and knowledge of the polar second moment of area ; this being the sectional properties of a component that allows the shearing stresses to be deduced from the applied torque . |
| 23 | ‘ A small minority of competitors are very much in danger of spoiling the good image of equestrian sport , ’ she said . |
| 24 | According to the " psycholinguistic guessing game " view of reading the good readers should make more use of the context than the poor readers , and in comparison with the neutral context they should perhaps show greater facilitation effects from congruous context and greater interference from the incongruous context . |
| 25 | Substitution of the Rivlin form for For sheet materials stressed in their plane one of the Then it is easy to show that who showed that a form , with f a decreasing function of gave the best fit . |
| 26 | Food was still rationed and it was very much a question of making the best use of available resources and we had absolutely unlimited demand — a very false situation as it turned out when you think about what happened to British industry afterwards . |
| 27 | From then on , you 'll be sure of making the best use of electricity on the cheap night rate . |
| 28 | Students and business people alike are faced with the challenge of making the best use of their time . |
| 29 | Latymer had taken the lead after 10 minutes but , despite playing the better football throughout , were beaten by two scrambled goals from Rodney Walshe , one just before half-time and the other 30 seconds from the end . |
| 30 | He proposed that a departmental committee should be set up to advise the Commissioner of Works and , looking at the War Department first , should draw up a specification of their requirements , and a competition should be organized ‘ open to the architects of every country , in order that no means may be neglected of obtaining the best designs ’ . |