Example sentences of "good [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was no good the Prime Minister telling the Bangladeshis last week that the making and administration of the laws of this country is our own business . |
| 2 | A certain amount of welding to make good the outer shell has to be carried out and then of course we only need 218 small tubes and six large flue tubes to allow the boiler to be ready for hydraulic testing . |
| 3 | It is no good the Labour party seeking again and again — as it did this morning — excuses for why people offend . |
| 4 | The brilliant spell of weather was still holding good the following morning . |
| 5 | The sum of £250 had been borrowed from Joseph Barnard , the treasurer , to make good the actual deficiency which ‘ had not arisen from any defect or negligence whatever in the management of the institution , but on the contrary arose from the great success of the Infirmary and the high reputation it had acquired , so that the number of patients had increased rapidly ’ . |
| 6 | The first agreement of its kind to be concluded by the CIS with a former Warsaw Pact country , it provided for the sale of real estate belonging to the former Soviet army in Czechoslovakia and for the use of the proceeds to make good the environmental damage done on those sites as well as to pay for the housing of returning soldiers in Russia . |
| 7 | But the new reserve does n't quite make good the vast sacrifice of natural habitat to industry . |
| 8 | Just as good the other way . |
| 9 | Yet it needs to make good the outdated complex , which is not even geared to withstanding bad weather . |
| 10 | A phase of acute unemployment is likely to have supervened ; it was certainly alleged to be rife by 1525 when it was put forward as the precipitant of the riots against the levying of the Amicable Grant — the tax of one-sixth on the valuations of 1522 by which Wolsey sought to make good the disappointing yield of the subsidy — albeit attributed to the dislocation of business caused by the severity of taxation . |
| 11 | The department 's ‘ O ’ Level results had been very good the previous year and he had had a letter of congratulation from the Assistant Education Officer responsible for the school . |
| 12 | ‘ Yes , ’ he nodded , ‘ the forwards did go well , but you have to wonder just how good the Welsh side were . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The forwards did go well , but you have to wonder just how good the Welsh side were ’ Jim Telfer |
| 14 | All these factors reduce the response rate , no matter how good the original sample may have been , so that what may have been a reasonable one-in-five sample to begin with ends up as nearer one-in-ten actually obtained , because of losses . |
| 15 | No matter how good the theoretical preparation , it is only when the student works in the ward that she is required to translate knowledge into practice . |
| 16 | Sees what people say , how good the English language is . |
| 17 | Normally they did n't like to sanction a digs so far away from the city and the university buildings , but Mrs Hegarty had been quick to explain how near her house was to the railway station , how short was the train journey into town , how good the bracing sea air . |
| 18 | Under these conditions , however good the heuristic estimate , the algorithm will keep abandoning paths that fail to live up to their initial promise in favour of untried paths that are promising a little more than they will deliver ( Pearl 1984 ) . |
| 19 | He took some time because he jacked up the chair on books to make good the missing leg , rather than have an unsuspecting colleague collapse . |
| 20 | The search firm chosen depended on a mixture of the clients own requirements for the assignment , its past experience with individual headhunters — based on how good the particular consultant doing the work had been — and ‘ how we like their presentation ’ . |
| 21 | It is no good the hon. Member for Epping Forest showing concern if he does not understand this , because it will be empty concern . |
| 22 | Or would it be better the other way round ? |
| 23 | It was my stubborn belief that it would be better the other way round , because the little ones surely risked injury under that press of naked weight . |
| 24 | Does it look better the other way up does it ? |
| 25 | Commercial rivalry was involved and the wish to better the lithographed lace sample books circulated by the trade in England . |
| 26 | Kenneth Branagh would have been hard pushed to better the sheer professionalism on display . |
| 27 | We are constantly searching for ways to better the nutritional quality of our menu , whilst retaining the characteristic taste and flavour of our food . |
| 28 | She was better the following day , however , entirely recovered , it seemed , and when , from the balcony , she caught sight of him skulking , she quickly volunteered to fetch the dish Sabina had prepared from the oven in the piazza . |
| 29 | With the rift between Beijing and Moscow deepening , the Soviet leaders , aware that the Maoist model was not unattractive to the Cubans , made haste to better the Chinese deal . |
| 30 | The better the social health of the group , the more open our questions can be . |