Example sentences of "of a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The women are the vessels of a better spirit ; the injury to them is greater , and it is their own men who are responsible for some of that injury . |
| 2 | We are working for no patchwork modifications , for no ‘ reconciliation of capital and labour ’ , for no ‘ infusion of a better spirit ’ into old industrial forms . |
| 3 | If we could think of a better system we would introduce it . |
| 4 | Maybe its a bit difficult for people with either a non UK sense of humour ( I include you Irish folks in UK … sorry guys , but could nt think of a better description … |
| 5 | And the longer you are prepared to leave it , the higher the likelihood of a better return . |
| 6 | If you are feeling — for lack of a better word -thirsty , let's meet again next month . |
| 7 | She felt , in her new severity ( for want of a better word ) only half alive , she knew she wanted the old enthusiasms and passions and expectations to course through her and arouse her . |
| 8 | The main point about this category — for lack of a better word we shall call it ‘ under class ' ’ — is that its destiny is perceived as hopeless ' ( Dahrendorf , 1985 , pp. 101–7 ) . |
| 9 | Now , hands are , well , handed for want of a better word . |
| 10 | He recognizes that it might be regarded in a pejorative sense as indicating a readiness to compromise and to accept something inferior , but he uses the term , nevertheless , for the want of a better word and tries to give it a different connotation . |
| 11 | Just horses and ploughs and , for want of a better word , peasants . |
| 12 | Here , on the outskirts of Hassleholm , the quintessential small-town-where nothing-happens , is the house where Neneh Cherry spent at least some of her roving , migrant childhood — her home , for want of a better word . |
| 13 | But one thing was niggling away at my conscience ( for want of a better word ) . |
| 14 | Did not everyone , of necessity , overlook a large part of what might be termed , for want of a better word , the truth ? |
| 15 | We 've got to sort of create the world , and so forth , and sort of run it , and so on , and , well , try to make some kind of , of , of sort of viable proposition of it , and all the rest of it , and it just seems to me that we can get better results if we treat the , if we treat the sort of , well , for want of a better word , the local inhabitants with a certain amount of , of , of respect , and , and , and trust , and and , if we help them , and and guide them , to the point where they can become sort of independent and sort of self-governing , within the framework of the free , well , of the free , sort of , well , of the , yes , free kind of system that we enjoy ourselves . ’ |
| 16 | Only a minute or two earlier you were saying things like : ‘ It 's just a sort of a , a sort of a , a , a , a question of as it were sort of behaving sort of , well , for want of a better word , decently , sort of thing . ’ |
| 17 | You f emphasized the fact of erm s solidarity fr fr from want of a better word . |
| 18 | I think if you let development rip for the want of a better word in North Yorkshire , as I suggest the House Builders Federation would do , then it would be active acting against the regeneration strategy . |
| 19 | For want of a better word they 're actually stolen books are stolen . |
| 20 | Anybody who can read the Latin is held by the poem : its hold , however , is in the language , the typical Horation speed — for want of a better word — the eloquent economy of phrase , the loading of the text with allusions and with metaphors overt and covert . |
| 21 | I mean everything is , is well , regimented , I ca n't think of a better word |
| 22 | Can you really hope to marry the practical arts to what are essentially , I suppose , for want of a better word , the arts of beauty ? |
| 23 | By restricting the right to vote to fully accepted church members , political power in Massachusetts was placed in the hands of the godly men who had led the expedition ; those who had joined the expedition merely in the hope of a better standard of living found their efforts justified by success because , despite some difficult times in the 1630s , the labouring population in the colony by the 1640s was fairly certainly more prosperous than they would have been if they had stayed in England , and about 20,000 people had settled in New England at a total cost of about £200,000 . |
| 24 | I mean , it er portrait really is the right sort of subject to , to try out this kind of technique because er , it does n't have impact , and here because the green and the erm er , this , th for want of a better colour , it 's really red , it 's a sort of purply colour , they 're very dark and th the , the actual head does n't really stand out very much from the from the background , I think the background |
| 25 | The early impression that the virus was of prime aetiological significance in AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis is not supported by the present prevalence ; the absence of a better outlook in AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis patients ( with cytomegalovirus ) treated with foscarnet compared with untreated patients in consistent with the conclusion that it is unlikely to be important . |
| 26 | The ecological disaster created by the diversion of water from the Aral Sea for the sake of a better cotton crop has given that sort of thinking a severe knock . |
| 27 | All at once he wanted to win them over , the people in the boardroom , win them with his candour and his vision of a better country . |
| 28 | For want of a better location , we ate our picnic lunch in the cemetery with superb views of the north coast . |
| 29 | So for three days Ruth took food , and sometimes water , to her cousins , and since the food was of a better variety , Charlotte was tempted into eating . |
| 30 | Winter-lets are not intrinsically bad , but they are ‘ symptoms rather than causes of insecure housing , chiefly because many authorities ignore the needs of people who have to resort to them for want of a better choice … . ’ |