Example sentences of "[vb infin] a [adv] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon he will need a really good teacher . |
| 2 | Then a light sanding between coats , and a dust , will ensure a really good finish |
| 3 | We did n't do a particularly good practice on Thursday . |
| 4 | In fact there has been a radical shake up and I 'm confident we can do a much better job this time . |
| 5 | It is a heavy serviceable machine and I am not really knocking Wilson because in another situation it would probably do a very good job but for us it is just not a very pleasant tool to be with . |
| 6 | Well I think my parents did the best they could but the pressures that were on them they , they did n't do a very good job ! |
| 7 | Our arsonist , I 'm afraid , did n't do a very good job . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm sure he 'll do a very good job … ’ |
| 9 | ‘ The tests were poor discriminators and , in terms of checking on their progress and diagnosing their weaknesses , we could do a far better job ourselves in a fraction of the time , ’ he declared |
| 10 | With Digital Equipment Corp closing its proprietary VAX manufacturing plant in Galway , Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSoft unit will today bring a little good news to the Republic of Ireland , when it announces the establishment of a software development centre outside Dublin . |
| 11 | With Digital Equipment Corp closing its proprietary VAX manufacturing plant in Galway — see page three — Unix supplier Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSoft satellite will this week bring a little good news to the Republic of Ireland , when it announces on Tuesday the establishment of a software development centre outside Dublin . |
| 12 | ‘ Sure , we want to make profits to give our shareholders a reasonable return on their investment , and to enable us to maintain and enhance our capital base so that we can give a steadily better service to an ever larger number of customers . |
| 13 | ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’ |
| 14 | It ai n't gon na give a very good impression . |
| 15 | Many things about AIDS are uncertain but the more you know about it , the less you will be afraid — and you could become a very good friend to people who have to live with this problem . |
| 16 | I think he will become a very good administrator . |
| 17 | But he he does look a very good goalkeeper . |
| 18 | Chief executive Joe Dwyer said : ‘ The firmer expectations of economic revival now apparent in the UK and U.S. give me confidence that some of our markets , particularly housing , will see a markedly better trend before the year-end . ’ |
| 19 | The designer is not the person to evaluate the clarity and usability of instructions , a sample of actual users will provide a much better assessment . |
| 20 | The reputable shareware libraries in the UK do provide a very good service , in that they make sure that a : the author receives his payment , and b : the user receives the goods . |
| 21 | Moving on into the sort of sensors and the electronics side , erm for survivability erm the defensive aid sub- system will be er very complex , very sophisticated but also integrated so that it has a complete system of protection for the aircraft , erm an and finally moving on on the sort of electronics side then clearly with different sensors such as the radar , the forward looking infra-red , infra-red search and track the er multiple information distribution system and also certain aspects of the er electronic warfare suite then by having sensor fusion which enables the best information at any one time to be correlated into the system as a whole then that will provide a very good capability and far in excess of anything that we have at the moment . |
| 22 | Do you think I might just find anybody here who 'd like a really good snog ? |
| 23 | The company could use a little good news . |
| 24 | That was in 1916 — it should still make a jolly good election address . ’ |
| 25 | They in turn recruited their friends in the belief that together they would make a jolly good team . |
| 26 | ( That is why , in Task 2 , although one may make a pretty good guess on the basis of past experience , there is no sure way of knowing whether the sentences which are grammatically correct ike ( 1 ) , ( 3 ) , and ( 5 ) — have been used or just invented . ) |
| 27 | I think there 's sufficient weighting on the course in art for the child to make it work … if you kill the word ‘ exam ’ and just call it a ‘ set piece ’ , and say ‘ This is the final piece of work I 'd like you to do ’ , and see if there 's a climax of five terms ' work , as opposed to some sort of insurmountable hurdle that only 20 per cent of the pupils can get over … ‘ if you do n't make a particularly good job of it , it only carries 40 per cent of the marks and you 've got 60 per cent for the coursework ‘ . |
| 28 | He 'd liked the story well enough , admittedly , given a fairly good display to his half-dozen column inches yesterday ; but when Mike had told him the press conference to which Briant had agreed could make a much better story , he had n't seemed to think much of it . |
| 29 | True humility is realizing that God can make a much better job of my life than I could ever do by myself . |
| 30 | But so much seemed to have changed … and Joe would make a much better ally than an enemy , if only he could accept the situation as it stood . |