Example sentences of "it [verb] good [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Between the river walk and the village rises a conical hillock known in the past as ‘ Cunnigar ’ or the ‘ Witches Hill ’ it offers good views to the north and is one of several Bronze Age earthworks along this stretch of the river . |
| 2 | This method of teaching was effective in that it produced good results in an examination which focused on mathematical content . |
| 3 | However , in other cases the courts have held that where a clause requiring best endeavours appears with an exclusion or force majeure clause , it qualifies the latter , so that the contractor can only rely on the exclusion or force majeure clause if it can establish that it used best endeavours ( see Yates and Hawkins , Standard Business Contracts : Exclusions and Related Devices , p165 ) . |
| 4 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 5 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 6 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 7 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 8 | He says it has good networks for communication and is very attractive for business . |
| 9 | It has good moments and very bad moments . |
| 10 | It has good things about Gore , about Hoskyns , about Temple . |
| 11 | The large , cheerful village of As Cain is an excellent first taste of this lushly rural hinterland and , although still almost at sea level , a possible place to stay , because it has good hotels set where village hotels ought to be , in the main square . |
| 12 | It has good beaches , dramatic scenery and has even been given the royal nod . |
| 13 | It has good colours and , although it uses a Zilog Z-80 processor , like the Spectrum , the games are fast . |
| 14 | It has good grounds for resenting Tokyo 's power . |
| 15 | It contains good amounts of vitamins A and D , but no minerals and not protein and is almost 100 per cent fat . |
| 16 | We 'll ask Linda this time , when it says good plans , sell , require , retain . |
| 17 | Productivity on the whole range of plant , old and new , may be improved as experience in operating it breeds better methods of organization . |
| 18 | This school was the one with the most positive process score in our earlier study : it achieved good results for all its pupils despite a relatively poor balance in its intakes , and this seemed to reflect a very positive and cohesive ethos , supportive of academic attainment for all children , combined with a clear concern for their other needs . |
| 19 | The health council has not yet taken an official position on the board 's proposals , but Mr Tait said that since Arbroath was a popular holiday town , it required better services than that of a cottage hospital . |
| 20 | The prevalence of the idea of the Second World War as a ‘ good war ’ in Anglo-American culture makes it very hard to appreciate that those who tried to prevent it had good reasons for doing so . |
| 21 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 22 | The house had not the vistas or the parkland of Auckland Castle , and its chapel could hardly compete with the chapel at Auckland , but it had good walks along the Ouse . |
| 23 | Jones 's book remained untouched on the shelves of Northumbria 's modest library in its first two years , even though it had good reviews ; and the influence of his research has been all but negligible . |
| 24 | It had good ears . |
| 25 | Tanzania is caught in this trap : it had good rains in 1986 and its cotton crop doubled from the previous year . |
| 26 | The dog decides it had better police this family itself , and , next thing you know , it is fastening its jaws on disobedient members of the family , its family . |
| 27 | Lotus is also used for creating quality printed output ; its WYSIWYG capabilities enable it to produce better prints than the current version of Ark , so Carello exports the data to Lotus prior to printing . |
| 28 | It makes good chips or if it 's dry fried . |