Example sentences of "it [verb] the good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This plan should be regularly updated as the design evolves so that at any moment in time it represents the best forecast of the final cost of the project . |
| 2 | We believe that it represents the best way forward , not just for this country but for Europe . |
| 3 | In many cases , nonetheless , it offers the best opportunity of optimising the use of hill land resources for the nation ( 25 ) . |
| 4 | It constitutes the best evidence we have come across so far that training in which the critical stimuli become linked to different events generates a unique source of transfer to further discrimination learning . |
| 5 | It belittles the good work done by the prison in rehabilitating offenders . |
| 6 | Written by Dr Richard Mackarness , a psychiatrist at Basingstoke District Hospital , it described the good results of dietary change on a patient called ‘ Joanna ’ whose severe mental disturbance had been variously diagnosed as ‘ schizophrenia , schizo-affective psychosis , presenile dementia , temporal lobe epilepsy , neurotic depression and anxiety hysteria . ’ |
| 7 | do not buy tropical hardwood unless it has the Good Wood Guide seal of approval — or , better still , do n't buy tropical hardwood |
| 8 | Th and it has the best graphics . |
| 9 | Walton stresses that there is no simple concept or criterion of the child 's best interests which can be applied in a crude rule-of-thumb way , and no group or individual which has sole authority to assume that generally it has the best conception of the child 's interests . |
| 10 | It has the best links between applications , and Spinnaker has obviously given some thought to the future needs of users by including OLE support . |
| 11 | It uses the best talents available to produce promotional materials to recruit new members . |
| 12 | But production only reached 421,000 last year and the real bright spot was Land-Rover , whose Discovery model helped it achieve the best year for sales since the first Land-Rover rolled out in 1948 , while productivity jumped 25 per cent . |
| 13 | It seemed the best way of unifying gravity with the other forces . |
| 14 | It seemed the best bet . |
| 15 | It pleased the good woman , and it gave the baby an identity . |
| 16 | You can still see it going on today and it still happens does n't it like the Good News Bible if you look at that , I mean this a version of the Bible rewritten , presumably to tell people good news I do n't know , I 've never , never read it but I presume that that 's what the Good News Bible does and we now have countless bibles , where , where , where , where God is , God is female erm my guess is supposing that were the only Bible we had a feminist bible were no other bible and everybody for hundreds of years believed it , my guess is that in the future literary critics and bible critics could study that very carefully and I bet you somewhere there you 'll find internal evidence to show that once God had been male and had his gender changed , I 'm quite sure of it because edit a whole book like the Bible and completely eliminate all the evidence that God was once male would be a very difficult here , here and there you need little bits of evidence and , and again there 's lots of others I 'll mention in the lecture like God 's name . |
| 17 | Having just completed long negotiations with the various provider units in the area , the authority is now keen to ensure contracts are honoured and it gets the best value healthcare available . |
| 18 | It seems the best way to be . |
| 19 | It has to extend its search one stage beyond the point where it finds the best path , in order to check that it is the best . |
| 20 | I was really knocked out by your article on Philip Glass and I think it contained the best description of Glass ' music I have ever read . |
| 21 | THIS ALBUM 'S predecessor , ‘ The Psychedelic Years ’ , was possibly the best compilation album ever , in the sense that it contained the best songs by the best bands in its field of reference ; in fact , it seemed to have all the good songs that came out of psychedelia ( It also had The Incredible String Band , but presumably only as a sorbet to clear the palate . |
| 22 | Integrity therefore fuses citizens ' moral and political lives : it asks the good citizen , deciding how to treat his neighbour when their interests conflict , to interpret the common scheme of justice to which they are both committed just in virtue of citizenship . |
| 23 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 24 | Mind you , the accountant , C.J. Broderick , soon saw what was happening , but it took the best part of a year to re-arrange matters so that the newspaper could save money by hiring me back at $28 per week . |
| 25 | ‘ It took the best part of nine months to do it because some people were worried about its connotations with ‘ Empire ’ . |
| 26 | Parliament , too , has to keep its working methods under review to make sure it attracts the best people to the service of their country and uses their talents to best effect . |
| 27 | British companies rarely welcomed headhunters positively ; they engaged them out of desperation , but it gave the good firms the chance to rise to the occasion . |
| 28 | It won , it won the best kit car and this was at the national show so you imagine how good this thing was . |
| 29 | He chose to sleep in Three because it had the best view of the Jubilee Line , unobstructed by trees , and as he came into the room and crossed to the window , he saw beyond the garden and the trees and the rhubarb plantation a silver train speeding southwards . |
| 30 | The University of Texas at Austin is very rich — it had the good sense to find oil on its own land . |