Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv prt] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I buy a harmonium — nearly an organ — and spend the rest of my life playing it , thickened with doleful dirges , vainly trying to lay the trauma , my only satisfaction the ashen faced , staring eyed audiences staggering out at the end of performances , primed , and ready to carry on the good work . |
| 2 | ALSO , Liverpool wo n't want to write off the best part of £1 million spent on recruiting Souness : £500,000 a year salary and £400,000 compensation to Rangers . |
| 3 | I got to work up a good sweat . |
| 4 | Remoteness is still the keynote of this region , but a Charlton reiving party would be hard put to it these days to work up a good gallop along the upper reaches of the North Tyne River . |
| 5 | But in a cold , late spring I find it difficult if not impossible to work up a good tilth in time for mangolds . |
| 6 | In a cold , late spring it may prove difficult to graze off the rye in time to work up a good tilth for mangolds . |
| 7 | At the end of September 1949 , therefore , Smith was himself seconded to the BEA to work on sorting out this problem , and he was in fact to stay , in a sustained attempt to work out a better contracts system , thus further strengthening the BEA 's management of the construction programme . |
| 8 | I figured that if I asked for a transfer I 'd either get a rise or would be able to work out a better deal for myself if I went elsewhere . |
| 9 | Second , identifying other people 's best practices gives you the benefit of their knowledge and experience ; you do n't have to try to work out the best way of performing a particular task — you just learn from whoever is already doing it that way . |
| 10 | Forget the original lecture situation and sit down with the speaker to work out the best way of communicating his or her message on the video screen . |
| 11 | And until we 've looked honestly at the mess you 've landed in , we ca n't hope to work out the best way out of it . ’ |
| 12 | The Overseas Development Minister , Lynda Chalker , is to visit Russia to try to work out the best way to distribute British emergency food supplies . |
| 13 | Pausing a moment to work out the best route , the Doctor set off to find a stair leading down . |
| 14 | Try to work out the best solution to your background problem , then forget altogether about conventional seating ( one or two sofas , armchairs , occasional chairs ) . |
| 15 | In keeping with these objectives departments were ‘ called upon to examine the way they managed all aspects of their programmes and to work out the best pattern of managerial responsibility , financial accounting and control ’ ( ibid. , para. 14 ) . |
| 16 | ‘ Senility is known to set in a good deal earlier in many cases . ’ |
| 17 | At the moment it seems that Labour is poised to pick up a good swathe of its targets — but not , yet , quite enough of them to put Mr Kinnock safely into Downing Street . |
| 18 | Phillips says that ‘ at first we try to set up a good rapport and explore the range of powers claimed . |
| 19 | We tend to think that it is a modern problem , trying to set up the best lifestyle so that the need for personal commitment to the home is balanced with other social and career activities . |
| 20 | These can actually be a very good source of low cost resistors , capacitors , diodes , etc. , but only if you know what you are doing , and you have the necessary test equipment to sort out the good components from the ‘ duds ’ . |
| 21 | While the tannery try to sort out the best hides before they 're sent , these flaws can not be helped , so Klondyke cut round them , since otherwise the scar might eventually open up and spoil or even split the strap . |
| 22 | While the two aircraft commanders get their heads together to sort out the best approach to the problem we have been set , the two pilots sort out the flying side of life . |
| 23 | They had to ford these hazards , Travis going first to pick out the best route . |
| 24 | Molly and Mary both had things to do that evening , so Yanto had arranged to meet Billy in the Boar to round off a good weekend . |
| 25 | ‘ We want to put on a good performance , and I believe we can win this one if we adopt a positive attitude . ’ |
| 26 | It is difficult to believe that a desire to put on a good show at an exhibition could shape a major research programme . |
| 27 | Pubs could become for her extensions of the office , places to put on a good show for the Yard , swilling pints of bitter with the lads to enhance her image . |
| 28 | Paul said : ‘ We have been training throughout the winter and are hoping to put on a good show for Scotland . |
| 29 | Bombay has been a good ground for me in the past , but we need to put in a better performance than we have been doing . |
| 30 | I have since asked my constituent for an update of the position and she has confirmed that the family has had to put in a good deal more extra money to finance both daughters than it had previously expected . |