Example sentences of "good [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.

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1 No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them .
2 While the summers were generally fairly good the making of hay , the main winter fodder , could be difficult resulting in poor quality feed .
3 I know that 's difficult to provide erm , and the money 's got to be found for that , but it , it 's a mixed blessing putting elderly people into , a lot are put into our homes , which I agree are very good the majority of them , they 're very nice , but the people who 're put into them , they give up their own homes , and then they get a bit better six months later , and they say , ooh , I just want to go back to my home now .
4 Argentinian President Carlos Saúl Menem , speaking in the Argentinian capital Buenos Aires , stated that he believed that the agreement " eliminated for good the possibility of armed conflict " between the UK and Argentina and would grant Argentina " broad possibilities " in the European Communities ( EC ) .
5 It can be seen that while the overall picture regarding Scottish exports is good the performance of the different industries is mixed .
6 So we can use that information as well in assessing how good the welfare of animals is .
7 In a country that has known hosepipe bans in autumn even as gardens disappear under floodwater , it is reasonable to wonder how much good the downpour of the past 48 hours has achieved .
8 For all its efforts to make good the loss of over 100 years , Poland was not invited to join the club of industrialised nations .
9 The scope of the innkeeper 's duty is further limited by s.2(3) : where the proprietor of an hotel is liable as an innkeeper to make good the loss of or damage to property brought to the hotel , his liability to any one guest shall not exceed fifty pounds in respect of any one article , or one hundred pounds in the aggregate , except where —
10 Moreover , in most cases , the right to re-enter can not be exercised until the tenant has been given an opportunity of making good the breach of covenant .
11 And last , the closer the target bank is to the acquirer , the better the chance of value creation , because expense control is more easily managed .
12 Obviously , the fewer carp competing for the available food the better the chance of reaching a worthwhile size .
13 Nevertheless , the Trust is always looking to increase the register as the larger the number of donors , the better the chance of a successful match and transplant operation .
14 The better the preparation of That decision the closer will the result approximate to the " go " or " no-go " idiom .
15 The general result is that the higher the correlation coefficient the lower the CD score and the better the diversification of risk .
16 Std Error ; this is the standard error of the beta estimate and the lower this figure is the better the estimate of beta .
17 The more you achieve and the better the quality of that achievement , the happier you will keep your client .
18 The evidence is that you stand as good a chance of getting the choice of currency right as the experts if the return from the managed funds is anything to go by .
19 ‘ Oh , most marriages would start off with as good a chance of success as failure , I suppose , if it were n't for outside influences , but there are too many women like you around , taking what you want with no thought for anyone else involved , and then hanging on once you 've got it — out of sheer habit or emotional laziness , it sometimes seems to me . ’
20 ‘ I did not relish visiting Gayfield when I was a Celtic player and my team now has as good a chance of beating Rangers as anybody else .
21 Forty years of political broadcasting and handling refugees had probably given Leni as good a sense of how the twilight world worked as Agnes had herself .
22 ‘ They 've got a good a squad of players as any in the division . ’
23 Monoamine oxidase inhibitors would prevent the inactivation of noradrenaline and other amines thought to act as neurotransmitters : might they be making good a lack of one of these amines in the tissues ?
24 In response , TNO told the primate centre and its associated radiobiology and immunology research institute ITRI to make good a deficit of around DF13.7 million ( US$2 million ) .
25 It seemed as good a way of ingratiating myself as any other : the palace was a protective place , and there was no automatic guarantee that a visiting journalist would be granted an audience .
26 So I really was confident I was going to pass , and he said , ‘ I 'll give you a pound if you pass , ’ which is n't really that good a way of teaching .
27 Well that 's probably a good a way of managing it as anything really .
28 In terms of sheer craft , Conrad is as good a writer of prose as Patrick White , which is saying a great deal .
29 Sukey raised eyebrows when he ordered rather too good a bottle of claret in restaurants .
30 Yet here , in his uncharacteristic hesitancy , the penetrating and infuriating Alvin Toffler is probably as good a reflection of the 1990 's and as else .
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