Example sentences of "much good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your precious George ca n't have done much good if the main burst again . ’ |
| 2 | Although there is much good stuff here and I shall undoubtedly find it a useful reference , on putting it down my chief desire was to out and solo something barefoot ! |
| 3 | THERE does not seem to be much good news about for any bulls in the advertising agency sector . |
| 4 | The driver sounds so genuinely distressed , it seems churlish to complain ( not that that would do much good ) . |
| 5 | A sample of youth in north Germany interviewed in the late 1950s still revealed significant traces of the ‘ Hitler myth ’ : he had done much good in abolishing unemployment , punishing sexual criminals , constructing the motorways , introducing cheap radio sets , establishing the Labour Service , and reinstating Germany in the esteem of the world . |
| 6 | Sam kept saying how much good I could do everybody if I had power and money . |
| 7 | The Lords does much good work , contains many wise men and women , and acts more disinterestedly than the Commons . |
| 8 | Having done so much good among them , the people were all the more prepared to listen to his teaching . |
| 9 | Whether any intelligence does much good or actually enhances a country 's security is doubtful . |
| 10 | The first agrarian reform in the region took place in Mexico after the revolution and went through its most radical phase in the 1930s , when much good land was turned over to the ejidos , the public sector . |
| 11 | The fact that anti-perfectionism is based on restraint , on not doing as much good as one can , lends it a slightly paradoxical air . |
| 12 | I fear that we can not return to Salzburg very soon and mamma must not wish it , for she knows how much good it is doing me to be able to breathe freely . |
| 13 | ‘ I can not see that it would do much good . ’ |
| 14 | It is unlikely that the crude material did much good , and not surprising that no more was said about it at the time . |
| 15 | Then said he , I am Saint Lazarus , and know that I was the leper to whom thou didst so much good and so great honour for the love of God ; and because thou didst this for his sake hath God now granted thee a great gift ; for whensoever that breath which thou hast felt shall come upon thee whatever thing thou desires to do , and shalt then begin , that shalt thou accomplish to thy heart 's desire , whether it be in battle or aught else , so thy honour shall go on increasing from day to day ; and thou shalt be feared both by Moors and Christians , and thy enemies shall never prevail against thee , and thou shalt die an honourable death in thine own house , and in thy renown , for God hath blessed thee ; — therefore go thou on , and evermore persevere in doing good ; and with that he disappeared . |
| 16 | If these words , often carelessly spoken , can have such a long-term and devastating effect , think how much good we can do by encouraging our children and praising them for what they have achieved . |
| 17 | We must move the debate about animals from how much harm we should inflict to the more fundamental issue of how much good we should do . |
| 18 | He went yet again in 1801 , by then she had altered from the time when she had ‘ full eyes , vermillion lips , and cheeks like lillies ’ to a ‘ bulky wife of a farmer , blessed with much good humour and a ready utterance . ’ |
| 19 | UNDER the improbable aegis of Ronald Reagan , who has never found occasion to say much good or bad about science during his long public career , it may well be that the American scientific community is headed for an economic boom . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , there is much good stuff , and it represents a fair view of the present state of the phytogenetic art . |
| 21 | But consuming rhino horn will do you about as much good as chewing your finger nails ; however , trying to tell that to the people who consume rhino horn is like trying to tell Ian Botham to lose weight . |
| 22 | She would n't get much good of him last night . ’ |
| 23 | Well , I do n't know , probably would n't have been much good anyway — ’ |
| 24 | There 's so much good stuff that has never seen the light of day . |
| 25 | There was the implication that no one else could do much good . |
| 26 | Much good publicity has been given to five areas of Britain that badly need it . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It is n't much good writing ‘ I would carry out a thorough investigation and get to the bottom of this whole business … ’ |
| 29 | Mr Smith rammed home the lunacy of gambling away ONE THOUSAND MILLION POUNDS trying to prop up the pound when the money could have done so much good at home . |
| 30 | I 'd been applying a special cream to his ankles which was supposed to harden the skin , but it did n't seem to do much good . |