Example sentences of "[art] good [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Terry Philpot , in the second of two articles , suggests how the situation could be changed for the better and the profession portrayed more positively |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | between the good and the evil , |
| 8 | People argue that by adopting a voluntary approach you lose the good and the bad . |
| 9 | The nationalist knee-jerk is easier and orders the world into the good and the bad . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 1993 , and the place to be is London , with all the good and the bad ! |
| 12 | Rita speaks of her life in Canada matter-of-factly , accepting both the good and the bad with equanimity . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ The question is whether machines strengthen the good or the evil in man 's nature . |
| 16 | Dr Mann 's central theme was the ability of humanity to use scientific knowledge for the good or the bad of his fellow man . |
| 17 | It was described as a goal which epitomises the best that the scum are at the moment ? |
| 18 | ‘ They are boyars , the crème de la crème , the best that the country can do . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Just as surely the sponsors will only want to pay the best and the number of highly paid players may fall . |
| 25 | In fact , I can describe his manner at that moment no better than the way Miss Kenton puts it in her letter ; it was indeed ‘ as though he hoped to find some precious jewel he had dropped there ’ . |
| 26 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 27 | No but I mean it 's it 's no better than the seaside I mean . |
| 28 | Let his colleagues con themselves if they wished but he knew that Tech-Green , for all its grand , humane claims , was no better than the monetarist governments who 'd reigned and toppled before them . |
| 29 | ‘ For goodness ’ sake , Shae , ’ she muttered into the darkness , ‘ you 're no better than the rest of them — you 're being betrayed by a longing that 's nothing more than physical . ’ |
| 30 | The Canadian provisions would seem to be no better than the English in this respect . |