Example sentences of "it [vb past] the good " in BNC.
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| 1 | It shared the best single award with Bhangra Muffin |
| 2 | The emphasis was now to be increasingly on service , given to and paid for by the state , which assumed the right to appoint its commanders ( this was made easier by the fact that all accepted the state 's money for service in war ) and to demand that it got the best available in return for its money . |
| 3 | It was necessary in 1859 to write about the process of evolution as if it produced the best of all possible worlds , a substitute for the finger of the Almighty at work . |
| 4 | 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 . ’ |
| 5 | It seemed the best way of unifying gravity with the other forces . |
| 6 | It seemed the best bet . |
| 7 | It pleased the good woman , and it gave the baby an identity . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ It took the better part of an hour to get to brass tacks , but we managed it in the end , sir . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ It took the best part of nine months to do it because some people were worried about its connotations with ‘ Empire ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ Swan Light reduced its price from 52p to 32p a can and it performed the best of the nablabs , even out-selling Kaliber , ’ she says . |
| 14 | ‘ Swan Light reduced its price from 52p to 32p a can and it performed the best , even outselling Kaliber ’ — Ann Tonks |
| 15 | It gave the best possible example that could be found for a rhetorical approach to the question of property . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | It won , it won the best kit car and this was at the national show so you imagine how good this thing was . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They explained that in no way could it have come from the plant because it had the best preventive system for any smell , dust or poisonous substances that might otherwise destroy the environment . |
| 20 | The University of Texas at Austin is very rich — it had the good sense to find oil on its own land . |