Example sentences of "that it [verb] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 2 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |
| 3 | This method of teaching was effective in that it produced good results in an examination which focused on mathematical content . |
| 4 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 5 | In her foreword , Ruth Richardson , the Minister of Finance ( and not the most popular Kiwi politician ) , expresses it thus : ‘ The special advantages of accrual accounting are that it distinguishes between capital and current spending , and that it takes better account of the cost of current policies for future generations … |
| 6 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 7 | Edinburgh District Council have been consulted and officials from their Planning Department have looked at the route and agreed that it has good potential . |
| 8 | If Hamer have sought to redesign this feature so that it looks better overall then I 'd suggest that they have made a mistake . |
| 9 | To build up a shop 's reputation in the public eye ( ie to make customers more aware of the shop and the goods it offers , and to convince them that it provides good value and good service ) |
| 10 | However , in other cases the courts have held that where a clause requiring best endeavours appears with an exclusion or force majeure clause , it qualifies the latter , so that the contractor can only rely on the exclusion or force majeure clause if it can establish that it used best endeavours ( see Yates and Hawkins , Standard Business Contracts : Exclusions and Related Devices , p165 ) . |