Example sentences of "good [noun sg] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I 've spoken about how we remember you but I know you have far more memories of being here those years ago and I know you 're really itching to get up off your seats and go and have a good look round to see where you were stationed and if it 's at all possible to see the huts , the billets or anything where you were . |
| 2 | This can be a good opportunity also to make the final consumer curious . ’ |
| 3 | It is not good practice simply to leave the cable poking out of the wall , and many wall light fittings will not have space in their backing plate to make the connections . |
| 4 | It would be good practice never to accept a referral without the knowledge and consent of the client , but issues of risk and protection with vulnerable elderly people sometimes lead to a decision to override that principle . |
| 5 | It was the stage at which the 12 member states did a good deal more to clarify their long-term goals . |
| 6 | There is a good deal more to say , and to think about , concerning the relations between the intra- and extra-mural teaching of literature . |
| 7 | We shall have a good deal more to say about this in a later chapter . |
| 8 | All three comital functions are documented in Charles the Bald 's reign , though royal instructions have a good deal more to say about the first and second than about the third . |
| 9 | In sum then , though the Supplement has a good deal more to commend it than its 1977 parent , it comes across as a car-orientated guide , static in outlook and narrow-minded in perspective . |
| 10 | Bargain-hunters flocked to the stores , believing they were getting a good deal only to find they had paid the normal price or , in some cases , more . |
| 11 | They need a good result tomorrow to keep up with the promotion chase . |
| 12 | There was better recognition still to come , adding professional achievement to a period of happiness in his private life . |
| 13 | which would give him a good break really to get a few things done . |
| 14 | I 've a good mind never to allow you in the Park again ! ’ |
| 15 | The Euro-sceptics argue that Mr Major has established himself as a good European merely to carry credibility when he vetoes monetary union . |
| 16 | Another person is happy or unhappy : I can use his good mood perhaps to charm a concession out of him , or take advantage of a time when he is distracted by trouble to steal a march on him ; but I shall not be pleased or displeased by emotions which do not touch my interests . |
| 17 | A third party coming into possession of confidential information is accordingly liable to be restrained from publishing it if he knows the information to be confidential and the circumstances are such as to impose on him an obligation in good conscience not to publish . |
| 18 | They have been able to take advantage of their good standing internationally to raise funds on fine terms which could then be converted into floating-rate liabilities suitable for financing the acquisition of floating-rate sterling assets . |
| 19 | She could n't use a good friend simply to get herself out of trouble . |
| 20 | He 'll be putting his lungs to good use soon to record the album of the show . |
| 21 | And , they may have one display displayed , but if you go to somewhere like a warehouse or distribution where you go round and pick up your you can go to a garden you 'll pick up a box that 's illustrating a Flymo lawn mower or something and , and it 'll , er they spend a lot of time and money on the packaging , but , a lot of people for pilferage reasons do n't illustrate and that 's good practise not to illustrate , from our point of view , what 's on the package . |
| 22 | For mercy 's sake , persuade your good woman here to allow the lady to stay . |
| 23 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 24 | So that there was good consideration there to meet that contingency , which was a real contingency and not a fanciful one at that time . … |
| 25 | You have too much good sense not to discover that I , in spite of my heart and all the pride of it , can not but love you and have put on a behaviour to you that was much against my heart , in hopes to frighten you from your reservedness . |
| 26 | They were descendants of Iapyx , a son of the great Daedalus 's , who 'd had the good sense not to fly . |
| 27 | At any rate , it was difficult to see that the FAA had any good reason not to implement the very important recommendations made by their own US investigating authority , the NTSB , after the Windsor accident , especially as the RLD had gone to the trouble of flying to Los Angeles to make their point . |
| 28 | But very occasionally we used to get somebody who wanted to talk to us and had good reason not to talk to the Feds or Charlie , and the simplest thing was to slip him into Canada and cite the OldCommonwealth-Pals Act . |
| 29 | So one good reason not to support Norwich is the hefty £52 they charge for you to look like one of their players . |
| 30 | ‘ He has n't believed much of what I 've told him , but is that a good reason not to tell him I 've recognized the man ? |