Example sentences of "[vb pp] [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In parts of England people still worship Pomona , the Roman goddess of fruit trees , through the custom of wassailing which is intended to encourage a good crop of apples . |
| 2 | The honours curriculum is designed to provide a good background for many types of work . |
| 3 | Some large companies employ their own photographers but very often these people are expected to handle a good deal of clerical work as well as take and process all the photography . |
| 4 | Teachers are expected to do a good deal of work at home . |
| 5 | In contrast , ‘ cash cows ’ will be expected to have a good ROI and cash flow and higher sales-turnover ratios . |
| 6 | It will offer up to £100,000 in support to Fife companies with ideas that are considered to have a good chance of success but lack resources needed to develop their products . |
| 7 | The Committee suggested that the Lord Chancellor should appoint chairmen and clearly favoured an increase in the use of lawyer chairmen principally because lawyers were considered to have a good grasp of principles of procedural fairness . |
| 8 | The questionnaire should be attractively printed and spaced to achieve a good layout and make things easy for the respondent . |
| 9 | They are a development of the system of weirs and flash locks where a stretch of water was impounded to provide a good depth of water to flush or ‘ flash ’ a boat along its way . |
| 10 | If the soil is acid or lacking in phosphate , lime or basic slag should be applied to ensure a good establishment of clovers . |
| 11 | I have been there nearly ten years now , and they are years in which I have grown to learn a good deal more about the power of the Holy Spirit , his gifts , his humbling and breaking , and the glorious way in which he takes and transforms congregations and lives from every conceivable background once opened to him . |
| 12 | It was as though the wind and tide had decided to have a good rest having expended all its fury achieving the high water mark . |
| 13 | ( Having the Macintosh on site also helped to establish a good rapport with the EPH staff , who occasionally commandeered it to help with administrative work , rewarding the project team with small tokens of appreciation , such as cups of tea and bacon sandwiches ! ) |
| 14 | If members allowances are a hundred and eighty thousand this year which is somewhere around there , Mr may correct me but I think I 'm not too far out , we 've already upped those this year to a hundred and eighty- nine , so next year there 'll be a hundred and seventy-one and the thirteen thousand cost of this will reduce it to a hundred and fifty-eight I actually do n't think that is possible , we ca n't afford it within the terms of of the present set up , unless someone 's going to dramatically reduce the length and the number of meetings in this council , which I think is highly unlikely , I think we 've got to set a good example to our employees , I think that this would give completely the wrong message . |
| 15 | Christie 's had secured a good selection of attractive conversation pieces and landscape paintings calculated to appeal to private collectors on a budget , as well as the more interesting portraits and equestrian compositions , while the quality of the works at Sotheby 's was particularly thin . |
| 16 | The Canadians , more experienced than most in these matters , say that only a modest amount of special training is needed to turn a good soldier into a good peacekeeper . |
| 17 | Salt is needed to maintain a good water balance in the body , and also for activity of muscle and nerve tissues . |
| 18 | We 've got to have a good system of monitoring with a liason committee . |
| 19 | Further , the data can be used to reveal a good deal about the composition of households — who lived with whom — but far less about the character and quality of relationships which people had with each other ( Laslett , 1972a , p. 1 ; Anderson , 1980 , pp. 36–7 ) . |
| 20 | ‘ I mean , a wah-wah pedal 's alright in context , but it can only be used to make a good son better . |
| 21 | ‘ I mean , a wah-wah pedal 's alright in context , but it can only be used to make a good son better . |
| 22 | Because of the amount of hard rubbing needed to achieve a good finish , oil polishing is best confined to plain surfaces . |
| 23 | Whether you are cultivating cabbages or grapes , care is needed to achieve a good harvest : good grapes make good wine . |
| 24 | The availability of calculating machines , and now micro-computers , must have affected the way that maths is taught , and also possibly the skills that are needed to become a good mathematician . |
| 25 | PUNK violinist Nigel Kennedy has escaped having a good behaviour pledge slapped on him after smashing up a hotel room . |
| 26 | No , forget the history in guidebooks completely , leave history to the writers of climbing epics where no one cares if the facts are bent to make a good story — or do they ? |
| 27 | Once she had seemed to know a good deal about him , but in her idle rancour of the last few weeks she had abused him for faults that seemed nothing to do with the truth of him . |
| 28 | The standard way of exploring fur lead was by searching for veinstone pebbles in the becks of gills , and when enough of the veinstones were found to indicate a good deposit of lead-bearing ores a dam was built up above on the fell at the head of the beck . |
| 29 | Steps must be taken to ensure that each decision is genuine , and adequate post-baptismal ( or post-conversion ) counsel and care must be provided to ensure a good environment for the nurturing of new life ( McQuilkin 1973 , 1974:48 ) . |
| 30 | Patients attending the cystic fibrosis clinic in Melbourne were found to have a good outlook with respect to employment and social life , and a study at the Brompton Hospital characterising clinical and social features of patients attending its cystic fibrosis clinic found a similarly good outlook . |