Example sentences of "the good that the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the better that the operation rehabilitated the credibility of the police who 'd been having a bad press in the early years of the decade . |
| 2 | I think in the long view it is all to the good that the government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared before we come in . |
| 3 | As soon as he got to Aix he wrote to Chamberlain : ‘ I think in the long view it is all to the good that the Government have to look after their own chickens as they come home to roost , and get a lot of the dirt cleared up before we come in . ’ |
| 4 | Sadly , one of the grimmer interpretations of the word ‘ experience ’ loomed in ugly manner over the last few days of the tour and may overshadow some of the good that the trip has produced . |
| 5 | It was described as a goal which epitomises the best that the scum are at the moment ? |
| 6 | ‘ They are boyars , the crème de la crème , the best that the country can do . |
| 7 | In the absence of a concrete policy towards the pound , the best that the Government can hope for is to ride out the crisis until the next set of trade figures , due on 24 October . |
| 8 | The best that the Government can do is propose to bring the worst regulator up to the standard of the inadequate , when we need regulation aspiring to the standards of the best . |
| 9 | Rutherford was in a poor humour , because the best that the pool could provide was a two-year-old Astra with 70,000 on the clock , and a ticket on the windscreen . |
| 10 | It 's the very essence of human beings to call in question every form of life , every form of thought , and to raise the possibility of thinking and living in some other way , and perhaps just for this very reason , some final and definitive formulation of the , of human nature , of human knowledge , of human conduct , is in principle unobtainable , and that the best that the philosopher can ever hope to do , is to show that this formulation , that formulation or the other wo n't work . |