Example sentences of "good [noun sg] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many processes have changed so that there is less direct human involvement in the production cycle , e.g. metal working , highly repetitive cycles can be conducted by robots and similar devices , e.g. in car assemblies , and the human operator gets better support even when still involved directly , e.g. the word processor as a substitute for the typewriter . |
| 2 | you 're , you 've got quite a good backbone there but you have n't got anything that really grabs my emotions . |
| 3 | er right , okay okay so better preparation so that when you make the presentation it 's more effective , yeah ? |
| 4 | One morning I hopped up on the fence to have a good look around and there , sunning herself in the patio window of the empty house , was the most gorgeous long-hair I 'd ever seen . |
| 5 | You could have a good look around and , of course , meet my godmother . |
| 6 | Reaching the bridge , they had a good look round but found nothing . |
| 7 | So anyway we 'd had a good look round and this ch church warden said hey you 'd better go and get some seats cos it 's going to get . |
| 8 | " I know you 're used to taking a good look round when you silflay , but here we generally go straight out . " |
| 9 | At the briefing it was not actually uttered , but there was a rumour that there was a woman and child on the Argosy , so this had made it even more important that we keep a good look out and try to find City of Glasgow . |
| 10 | But she thought well it 's been a good experience anyway and she tho felt that she 'd played her pieces well erm |
| 11 | She said : ‘ Things have progressed so quickly since the initial idea last year that we are now seeking bookings a good bit earlier than expected . ’ |
| 12 | Such a State should act in good faith so as not to frustrate the objects of the treaty . |
| 13 | mm still it 's all good money int it ? , must be on better money now than he was as a |
| 14 | When the defence relied upon is ‘ act or default of another person , ’ the defendant will have a good defence only if he has also made available to the prosecution such information as he has identifying that other person . |
| 15 | The reason for this advice is that quite possibly the question was set as a trap , and if you refrain have avoided it by good luck rather than good management . |
| 16 | We eventually found the car by good luck more than good management ; I wished we 'd had time to start from the top end and find how we 'd gone wrong . |
| 17 | The sub-committee might then find it is helpful to note any immediately available information about good practice elsewhere and consider the questions which they propose to ask during their first consultation with the head teacher . |
| 18 | The SACHR felt it should be used as an incentive to good practice rather than as a weapon after an employer had been found guilty of a criminal offence ( discrimination ) . |
| 19 | Assuming that I 'd been able to drag the dinghy in a fairly straight line — though I might have gone astray a bit when I was stumbling in the mud — Joanna should be lying more or less straight ahead , and a good deal nearer than when I 'd left , for it was near high water then , and now it was about the last of the ebb . |
| 20 | It is precisely true of hoping , perceiving , thinking , and a good deal else that it can be conceived in terms of such representative objects or contents . |
| 21 | I K. Campbell , 1970 , p. 23 ) It is allowed that it is enlightening or tolerable to speak of hoping , perceiving , thinking , and a good deal else as having objects or contents in the given sense . |
| 22 | Those who have cottoned on to the streak of genius in Brittain 's seemingly eccentric modus operandi have struck a rich vein of gold as the stable 's horses are often priced a good deal longer than they should be . |
| 23 | ‘ In the life of any organisation , a centenary is a very considerable period of time , a good deal longer than is given to most of us . |
| 24 | In some Berber tribes , pregnancies are believed to last any period — a good deal longer than nine months , certainly . |
| 25 | Second , the fall in unemployment adds something to the theory that the economy has in fact been recovering for a good deal longer than generally realised . |
| 26 | ‘ Michel wrote to me sometime ago — not from Paris– that they would be away a good deal longer than they originally planned , complications having arisen . |
| 27 | Reducing this to one fifth still leaves a potential strength of between 2 and 4 per cent of E , which is roughly what is achieved in practice in fibre-glass and is a good deal more than one can reach , keeping a safe amount of toughness , with the metallic ductility mechanism ( Chapter 9 ) . |
| 28 | Building construction should not be a closed book , and the industry itself is neither well trained nor well informed , otherwise its reputation would be a good deal better than it is . |
| 29 | In fact the work of fracture , W , turned out to be around 10 4 J/m 2 , which , weight for weight , is at least as good as a ductile steel and a good deal better than ‘ tough ’ composites like fibreglass . |
| 30 | Klein advanced Gentle five hundred pounds to pay the rent on the studio , and left him to it , remarking only that Gentle was looking a good deal better than he 'd looked previously , though he smelt a good deal worse . |