Example sentences of "[to-vb] a good [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The development was welcomed by exhibitors , who felt that stage adaptations would enable them to attract a better class of customer , but they were n't to know what they were letting themselves in for . |
| 2 | The direction of your movements should always be towards the heart to encourage a good flow of blood , and therefore nutrients , to the part being treated . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Conservatives believe that the government 's role is to ensure that we continue to have a good foundation of basic and strategic science on which industry can draw , to encourage a good supply of up-to-date and creative scientists , and to encourage the right climate for successful innovation . |
| 5 | Look also at the tops of the trees to establish a better idea of the wind strength , and perhaps its direction too . |
| 6 | A central feature of the government 's binary policy and the concept of a ‘ public sector ’ was the decision to concentrate a good deal of advanced work in a new generation of ‘ polytechnics ’ — a title borrowed from an earlier response to technological and economic demand — the generation of polytechnics created in London in the last two decades of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | The aim of this study is to secure a better understanding of the association between major social , economic and demographic trends and the pattern of children in care . |
| 8 | My aim was to secure a good head of each species and , in consequence , except when I shot for meat , I shot selectively and seldom . |
| 9 | She believes that if patients and the purchasers who obtain medical care for them began to demand a better quality of front line service , then hospital managers would very quickly do something to improve the tasks undertaken by and supervision given to preregistration house officers . |
| 10 | In drawing attention to many such embarrassments , Davie 's book is sure to provoke a good deal of rancour in certain circles . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ That turn of phrase you have … would seem to indicate a good deal of education . ’ |
| 13 | The very high quality of the data in terms of capacity to provide a good sample of everyday language is of course the major advantage of a participant observation method . |
| 14 | Is it really feasible that at the sort of level that 's being talked about , be it your level or the level being put forward by some of the objectors to the structure plan , the new settlement could actually hope to provide a good level of comparison shopping , for example ? |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | This is because a major aim of public sector housing policy has been to provide a good standard of accommodation usually for the less well-to-do who can not or do not wish to buy their own homes . |
| 17 | The consequence was that many authorities were too small and too poor financially to provide a good standard of service , to employ the requisite staff and provide the necessary specialized units . |
| 18 | Sometimes the photographers will organise this for you , but if there are a large number of photographs to take then you should consider using a specialist photographic accessoriser whose job it is to provide a good selection of suitable props from which you and the photographer can choose on the spot . |
| 19 | English , as distinct from British , culture seems to provide a good example of such a tendency ; it is a culture largely undisturbed by invasion or revolution , difficult for foreigners to plumb , subtle and rich in social allusion at every level . |
| 20 | Thus , open tipped tubes and intraluminal solid state pressure transducers appear to provide a good estimate of the amount and characteristics of contractile activity . |
| 21 | TRANMERE won their long fight to provide a better standard of competition for their reserves today when they were admitted to the Pontins League . |
| 22 | The union will also try to provide a better class of men for the Merchant Service , and will see that crews join their ship punctually and in a sober condition ; it will help shipwrecked mariners ; it will provide assistance to members travelling in search of work ; it will establish a sick benefit and a burial fund . |
| 23 | If pain and other symptoms were being so badly managed these patients should have been referred promptly to other health care professionals who might have been able to provide a better quality of analgesia . |
| 24 | The module title ( or existence string ) can be changed to provide a better explanation of the module . |
| 25 | I have been a keen metal detectorist for some years now and shortly after I started detecting I became aware of how difficult it was to find a good pair of gloves which would keep the hands warm and dry , but still allow a reasonable amount of dexterity for detector operation . |
| 26 | It would be difficult to find a better description of precisely those textual practices in the later manifestations of the nouveau roman . |
| 27 | Somehow , the party is going to have to find a better way of operating this time round . |
| 28 | All that crying and fear would be saved and she would long ago have wandered off , swishing her tail , to find a better patch of grass . |
| 29 | It may seem risky to start investing so much time and effort to obtain a better quality of life for a person at the margin of coping , but once the framework of social care planning has been established other aspects of social work and health service provision can be woven in . |
| 30 | EMSAs relative to the CHX experiments were performed with the following adjustments in order to obtain a better resolution of the various retarded bands : after the incubation with the probe , the samples were centrifuged for 5' at 4°C in microfuge and electrophoresed on a 30 cm. long 6% polyacrylamide gel in 0.25 TBE at 4°C which was prerun for 30' at 4°C . |