Example sentences of "[art] good [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | why , erm , at Dawn 's we erm done this thing , and it was sort of , there was four sides of it and it was one , then there was two inside , well there was one at the back , erm , Henry and Mrs said when you get these back you 'll see what you 've got , and people , she said , people who have got over twenty of er , the better than the people who are lower and I got twenty one |
| 2 | ‘ Some were for the better but a lot were for worse . |
| 3 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 4 | So much the better if the odds are very heavily stacked against you , or if the consensus involves jingoistic patriotism , the use of armed force , or is pro-American — all points of ambivalence for the left . |
| 5 | And it works the better as the fingers slide and touch and play while you close your eyes and empty your head of every other sensation being fed into it . |
| 6 | Terry Philpot , in the second of two articles , suggests how the situation could be changed for the better and the profession portrayed more positively |
| 7 | I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in . |
| 8 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
| 9 | Sadly , one of the grimmer interpretations of the word ‘ experience ’ loomed in ugly manner over the last few days of the tour and may overshadow some of the good that the trip has produced . |
| 10 | Colin our man at Lane as always , comprehensive coverage of that game throughout the evening , including some second half commentary as well , we 'll be sharing that second half commentary certainly as things stand at the moment with the game at er in the Coca Cola Cup third round replay where there could be a shock , third division Shrewsbury against premiership Blackburn , although at the moment the premiership team are doing pretty well , Blackburn already a goal to the good and the goal scorer now confirmed as Mike after six minutes . |
| 11 | between the good and the evil , |
| 12 | People argue that by adopting a voluntary approach you lose the good and the bad . |
| 13 | The nationalist knee-jerk is easier and orders the world into the good and the bad . |
| 14 | I would love to have a friend of around my own age to share outings , coffee and a chat and generally the good and the bad of bringing up children . |
| 15 | 1993 , and the place to be is London , with all the good and the bad ! |
| 16 | Rita speaks of her life in Canada matter-of-factly , accepting both the good and the bad with equanimity . |
| 17 | What is , in all cases , ethically characteristic of mysticism , is absence of indignation or protest , acceptance with joy , disbelief in the ultimate truth of the division into two hostile camps , the good and the bad . |
| 18 | In a movie you 've got to have good and bad : in Backdraft the fire brigade is the good and the fire is the bad it even has a kind of growling sound . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ The question is whether machines strengthen the good or the evil in man 's nature . |
| 20 | Dr Mann 's central theme was the ability of humanity to use scientific knowledge for the good or the bad of his fellow man . |
| 21 | The best that a practitioner can do is to have regard to the sort of multiplier which has in the past been adopted by judges in similar circumstances to those with which he is concerned . |
| 22 | It was described as a goal which epitomises the best that the scum are at the moment ? |
| 23 | ‘ They are boyars , the crème de la crème , the best that the country can do . |
| 24 | In the absence of a concrete policy towards the pound , the best that the Government can hope for is to ride out the crisis until the next set of trade figures , due on 24 October . |
| 25 | The best that the Government can do is propose to bring the worst regulator up to the standard of the inadequate , when we need regulation aspiring to the standards of the best . |
| 26 | Rutherford was in a poor humour , because the best that the pool could provide was a two-year-old Astra with 70,000 on the clock , and a ticket on the windscreen . |
| 27 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |
| 28 | It is not necessary to suppose that the design of a body or organ is the best that an engineer could conceive of . |
| 29 | They took trouble to make sure our rooms in the hotel were the best and the result was that this was a very happy film to make . |
| 30 | Just as surely the sponsors will only want to pay the best and the number of highly paid players may fall . |