Example sentences of "[pron] good [noun sg] of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's my best performance of the season attitude wise , ’ said Parrott , who has gone off the boil since opening the current campaign with tournament wins in China and Dubai . |
| 2 | Nationality as such played little part in most respondents ' educational life-chances or expectations ; and educational attainment in turn was far more important than nationality as a determinant of occupational position , although Russians did enjoy some advantages in applying for minor bureaucratic positions because of their better knowledge of the language in which most state business was conducted . |
| 3 | The wedding was set to give the royals their best publicity of the year . |
| 4 | Scotland had the satisfaction of outscoring Queensland by two tries ( Stark and Lineen ) to one and they produced their best rugby of the tour to earn a well-deserved draw . |
| 5 | In the same boat close to the bottom of Yorkshire Division plunged to a 20–6 defeat who played their best rugby of the season . |
| 6 | But what a difference a few days can make Saints crashed badly at home to Bradford Northern on the day when Doug Laughton 's men were giving arguably their best performance of the season in running up a convincing score against his old club Widnes . |
| 7 | Dundee opened brightly , harbouring thoughts of an upset , but when Pittman shot wide in seven minutes , their best chance of the match had been squandered . |
| 8 | Despite the defeat , Coventry can be satisfied with their form against the League champions , who are enjoying their best spell of the season — unbeaten in 11 games . |
| 9 | But with Dundee currently enjoying their best run of the season victory was certainly no foregone conclusion . |
| 10 | But their best move of the day was throwing that Union Jack over his shoulders . |
| 11 | BRENTFORD 'S run of six successive wins came to an end before their best crowd of the season and West Ham were unlucky not to have taken all three points . |
| 12 | MIDDLESBROUGH Reserves should have their best crowd of the season if the Central League game with Mansfield is rearranged for next Thursday night striker Bernie Slaven and midfield player Willie Falconer are in line for comebacks . |
| 13 | In the 36th minute the Dragons had their best effort of the half when Coleman was found by a precise ball from Springett but he shot wide . |
| 14 | BURSCOUGH will put behind them their best victory of the season as they travel to Blackpool Rovers tonight for a Bass North West Counties League clash . |
| 15 | Oxford United got the Christmas present they wanted — their best win of the season over league leaders Newcastle United … |
| 16 | After helping United to their best win of the season at Firhill last week , Ferguson was also on target for Scotland 's Under-21s in midweek . |
| 17 | Though they 've shown promising form in recent weeks , this emphatic win was only the second in 16 games for Mick Holgate 's men , who hold their middle of the table spot with rather more comfort after their best win of the season . |
| 18 | However , he was hounded all the way by Phillip McCallen who put on his best performance of the day so far . |
| 19 | Hanley confirmed the rout as he completed a hat-trick in perhaps his best performance of the season to give Leeds the result they urgently needed . |
| 20 | Cheshire was unlucky not to have his best day of the season . |
| 21 | He responded with 20 points , his best haul of the season . |
| 22 | Simon Brown , also producing his best bowling of the tour , returned to have Mark Dekker caught at short leg by Gary Brown and Zimbabwe B were 57 for five . |
| 23 | In accordance with certain theoretical considerations and after some empirical experimentation , Barro obtained the following fairly complex equation as his best estimate of the process determining the annual rate of growth of the quantity of money over the period 1941–73 : where is the rate of growth of the quantity of money predicted by the process shown in equation ( 6.7 ) to occur in period t , and is the actual rate of growth of the quantity of money in period t - i . |
| 24 | Carol had told him before he went home , so Bissett knew what to look for — Carol was the conduit of all the gossip for H3 — and it put him in his best humour of the day . |
| 25 | ND reached 385 through a record eighth-wicket stand of 152 between Pukekohe swing bowler Simon Doull ( 108 , his first century ) and Grant Bradburn , whose 72 was his best score of the season . |
| 26 | The tries were scored by Stark , Millard , who had his best game of the tour , Townsend , who also had an outstanding match , and Stanger . |
| 27 | He added another success against Ken Connor , while teammate Mike Keane chipped in with his best win of the campaign against Rob Bevan . |
| 28 | His best bet of the day , impressive Lingfield winner Carlowitz ( 5-1 ) , coupled with next best El Volador ( 11-8 ) rewarded followers at odds of over 13-1 . |
| 29 | It was Bolder again before half time , making a tremendous save to deny a Simpson shot and then three minutes before half time , his best save of the game ; somehow he kicked kneed Nogan 's shot away from five yards after more good work by United down the left side . |
| 30 | He finished last of the Europeans , two behind David Feherty , who had a 70 for his best round of the tournament . |