Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [prep] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | And a further principle was established — that of ‘ conflict of interest ’ , in which a manager who advises an artist to sign with his own recording and music publishing companies can hardly be said to be acting impartially , or necessarily in the best interests of his client . |
| 2 | An hour or so in the best of company , the bar is open , and all for £3 — what more can we do ? |
| 3 | As Dermot explains , ‘ Irish Times photographers are the best newspaper photographers in the country and arguably among the best in Europe . |
| 4 | AND so to the Good Friday question in the Mensa search for the brightest part of Britain . |
| 5 | It was important for Oreste 's sake to keep good relations and so with a good deal of lip-biting and general effort of control she finally wrote to her sister in most moderate terms expressing surprise , confessing intense distress , but apportioning no blame . |
| 6 | Things change and not for the better , to my mind . |
| 7 | erm There is a general concern I think with multiple occupancy that there 's , a whole way of life of East Oxford is changing , and not for the better , and indeed I was part of this when I moved into the area ten years ago . |
| 8 | All would agree with Mr Lester who says , ‘ The concept of three fairs is infinitely confusing and not in the best interests of Chicago ’ . |
| 9 | One advantage is that the students are not in competition with each other , as each student 's achievement is assessed against the criteria laid down and not against the best student . |
| 10 | Some couples , highly intelligent and normally with a good command over words , manage to keep themselves endlessly but unknowingly confused . |
| 11 | The point , which I find persuasive , is that an appeal court which will be less full-time than the Court of Justice will be less imbued with the centralist perspective , and thus in a better position to maintain an objectivity as between the interests of the EEC and those of the nation state . |
| 12 | Most often , the car parks , protecting your customer 's property , offering him or her protection ; the fire exits ( not to stop people getting in because they are already alarmed but to check that they are not obstructed ) ; the reception or foyer and other public areas so that management can see which parts of the hotel are being used by guests and roughly by how many , which is very useful if there is an emergency and you have to clear the building ; and finally as a good old-fashioned deterrent and for detection . |
| 13 | A separate report indicated that Iran may have been working on the development of such a weapon on and off for a good decade . |
| 14 | Suspicions bubble furiously , contacts drop like ninepins , Redford is bashed on the head a few times , the dreaded box is nicked back and forth between the Good and the Bad like a gunpoint game of Pass The Parcel and Redford 's erstwhile girlfriend Liz ( Mary McDonnell ) ends up offering refuge to the jittery team and their mountains of equipment . |
| 15 | Emphasis has been laid before on the commercial environment in which we operate , and also of the good , practical , commonsense business efficacy that any conveyancer ought to possess before entering into private practice . |
| 16 | At first , there will be little to see other than an area of dirty , discoloured water , possibly hot or ‘ boiling ’ , and probably with a good many dead fish floating around in it . |
| 17 | And back to the Good life . |
| 18 | Ant : And now for the best bit ! |
| 19 | Selling on is an attitude of mind , an attitude whereby you do your customers a favour by selling them more than they ask for , and often at a better price than they expected . |
| 20 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 21 | But in South Africa today , and surely for a good many years to come , there are also additional considerations that demand from a large company actions and policies that go beyond its immediate business interests and seek to ameliorate the excessive social and economic imbalances that have developed in our society . |
| 22 | It is not a bad idea to say ‘ thank you ’ every now and then for the good things in your life . |
| 23 | But today , realizing the problems she might have in controlling her mount let alone in staying on should it prop at a hedge or peck on landing , she decided discretion was the better part of valour and shortening her left rein swung Hullabaloo away in the other direction to take what was known as the Funks ' Run , which ran round a long ridge of elms , across the brook at its narrowest point , and then over a good two miles of open ground , with only one reasonable sized open ditch and hedge to be jumped at the bottom of the dip before a long run uphill which led back to the last of the Vale hedges . |
| 24 | The following quotation from Norman Conway , a grammar school chemistry teacher interviewed by Brian Jackson and Dennis Marsden ( 1962 ) , shows how the competition for scarce university places ( and ultimately for a better job for the teacher ) , especially in the context of bureaucratic mass-assessment can allow the instrumental pursuit of extrinsic rewards to drive out the expensive ‘ educational side ’ : |
| 25 | Everyone remembered him as a big man in all senses but not as a good headmaster except that he liked everyone and everyone liked him and in chapel he was a superlative speaker . |
| 26 | ‘ Come now , boy , ’ his father said , finally pulling his eldest son away , but not for a good half minute . |
| 27 | That does address itself to a real evil , the grossly excessive creation of credit , but not in the best way . |
| 28 | He would be defended not just by the best lawyers in Egypt but probably by the best lawyers in France . |
| 29 | I returned with some spectacularly horrible photos of the country 's many problems but also with a good many showing Czechoslovakia 's stunning beauty . |
| 30 | But , even when we have made allowance for the exaggerated impressions of a boy of fifteen , recollected many years later , it may be taken as evidence that Lanfranc and his handful of monks from Bec and Caen met not only with hostility , but also with a good deal of successful resistance . |