Example sentences of "[adv] good [noun] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | And he let us climb to the top deck of the car , with a much better view of the route , this being usually reserved for smokers . |
2 | Claiming that health workers ' fears were being overcome and that there was now a much better understanding of the plans , Mr Clarke said : ‘ There are volunteers all over the service waiting for Parliament to approve these provisions so we can get on with it from next summer onwards . ’ |
3 | And erm they had a , obviously a very productive meeting and , and it , they did n't say a lot about it but overall they said that really Roger and Helen now had a much better understanding of the direction we wanted to go in in the future and were pretty supportive of it really . |
4 | But we will make much better use of the medium if we seek to use it differently and for different reasons . |
5 | In short , people now have a much better opinion of the services offered by the Bank , and we have made significant inroads in the task of persuading customers that building societies are not necessarily the best place to go for savings and mortgages . |
6 | We are extremely good stewards of the land that we have . |
7 | ‘ You see , your mother 's is a photograph of a masterpiece by Bronzino , while your friend 's painting , although it looks similar , is actually a damned good copy of the original . ’ |
8 | ASTRONOMERS now have a far better idea of the size of the Universe , thanks to observations made by the Hubble Space Telescope . |
9 | Most people have a far better idea of the value of their house than of their annual income tax . |
10 | Older pupils with a more developed reading level will be able to make far better use of the wealth of documentary sources for the Victorian or twentieth-century periods . |
11 | Our bodies would be able to make far better use of the nutrients in the food and we would get more pleasure from the whole process . |
12 | Nowadays , about a decade after publication of Children 's Minds , developmentalists write about children with a far better understanding of the importance of paying heed to children 's abilities in everyday contexts as well as experimental ones . |
13 | This time Osborn was much more generous in his comments to Mumford : ‘ a far better statement of the problem than the LCC Plan … |
14 | Thus to get a really good idea of the extent to which taxes ( or subsidies ) alter people 's spending power and welfare , we need to examine the issue of tax incidence in more detail . |
15 | Dr Ramskold has found traces of extra tentacles on one of the only two really good specimens of the species there are , at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington , DC . |
16 | ‘ That will mean losing some players who are popular with the fans and have been really good servants of the club . |
17 | ‘ Clearly there is an opportunity for us to grow in Europe as more and more of the automobile is made from plastic and we can pick up a fairly good part of the business ’ , Hobor said . |
18 | and , and stuff like that so I mean in a sense you 're by now a fairly good judge of the way to go about this sort of thing , you 're a fairly good judge of what sort of things are important , perhaps the way in which people describe stuff and , and , you know , words , concepts , vocabularies erm all that kind of thing which obviously it helps if your questionnaire fits in with |
19 | The break-up of Pangaea ( Fig. 2.16 ) generated a considerable length of passive continental margins and analysis of the palaeomagnetic record of the continents and the subsequently created ocean floor has given us a fairly good idea of the timing of most of these rifting episodes . |
20 | Now the systems analyst has a pretty good knowledge of the capability of the computer , and the user has a fairly good idea of the problem in his department . |
21 | A careful search of a fairly good section of the wood began to produce coinage , mainly Jacobean . |
22 | As I was saying earlier on , it is a contract a legally binding contract , which does lay down the actual contractual position , but as in every business we do n't stick rigidly to the lettering of the policy , so erm in practice I think if you take the policy purely as it is erm it probably gives not as good effect of the policy as it actually is . |
23 | Now on with the show , and let's join Ann who 's enjoying a particularly good view of the proceedings . |
24 | Bob Dowcett , a director of Morgan Grenfell , says that their growth in non-UK deals — from 18% of their total in 1985 to 55% in 1990 — is a particularly good indication of the City 's success . |
25 | This will ensure that a relatively good recording of the child 's language will be obtained , together with a fair amount of the language of the other people . |
26 | Now the systems analyst has a pretty good knowledge of the capability of the computer , and the user has a fairly good idea of the problem in his department . |
27 | Er , we had a good look at , at the figures , although they were n't totally finalized we had a pretty good understanding of the situation and I think it is highly unlikely that we would er , seek to re-open any negotiations . |
28 | They were correct 92 times out of Ill , indicating very good awareness of the amount of time elapsed . |
29 | Very good part of the investigation . |
30 | Foreign visitors will expect the receptionist to have a very good knowledge of the country in general . |