Example sentences of "good [noun] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By ensuring that a good variety of the right kind of materials are available , such as cotton reels or cheese boxes for wheels , she can enable any child to pursue a particular interest . |
| 2 | Of course I stayed overnight at the hotel and spent a good part of the following day placating the ruffled Emily , even though I felt sure she was not as disturbed as she made out . |
| 3 | Paisley and Craig had spent a good part of the previous year publicly disagreeing about the future of Stormont . |
| 4 | Cardinal Pironio , from the Pontifical Council for the Laity , wrote to them to convey the good wishes of the Holy Father . |
| 5 | However , the assets are written down and a better measure of the true value of the company is the near £600m which the stock market puts on it . |
| 6 | Although CRP permits a better interaction of the wild-type enzyme at the lac P1 promoter , it does not affect the affinity of the α-truncated polymerases for the lac fragment . |
| 7 | Whatever the ultimate objectives , the fact remains that a good deal of the existing work within the comparative industrial relations field , although often rich and insightful , has not so far been explicitly theoretical in either its purpose or method ( Shalev , 1980a ) . |
| 8 | A good deal of the administrative law of ocean transportation is concerned with licensing and tariff issues , which also require a definition of ‘ carrier . ’ |
| 9 | He argues that a good deal of the apparent need for substitute child care is produced by social deprivation and its attendant pressures , rather than by parental inadequacy or culpability per se . |
| 10 | Secondly , although certainly important , the current preference by some writers to relate creativity to the affective forms of psychosis should not divert us from the fact that it is actually schizophrenia which has inspired most of the theorising — and generated a good deal of the empirical evidence — about how psychotic and creative traits might be related to each other . |
| 11 | Naturally enough , war raged fiercely in Spain ; in 1704 the English captured Gibraltar and held on to it , initially as a base for their communications in Spain ; a good deal of the naval activity of the war took place around Spanish waters and the English managed to stop the Bourbon forces from setting up any effective siege of Gibraltar . |
| 12 | The once-familiar Victorian grime has gone — along with many of the buildings which it coated — and so , regrettably , has a good deal of the local character . |
| 13 | The Company felt very pleased when in 1717 it received an imperial decree giving it a good deal of the territorial autonomy for which its ambitious employees had hoped in the 1680s and , in return for an annual payment of 13,000 rupees , freed it from paying customs duties inside India , but there is no sign that the Company realized that developments of this sort showed the Moghul Empire was beginning to lose control of the country . |
| 14 | Embargoes should be used only if they are really necessary and a good deal of the embargoed material which reaches an editor 's desk does not really need this form of restriction . |
| 15 | When , as tutor to the heir to the throne , Chicherin saw a good deal of the royal family in 1864 , the tsar put him in mind of a major in the army . |
| 16 | The war between England and Spain went on for sixteen years after the defeat of the Armada , with a good deal of the English effort being undertaken by private ventures like Drake 's ( though they were easier to acknowledge once war had begun officially ) . |
| 17 | A good deal of the upbeat feel reported last month gave way to dismay and much questioning , which reached a crescendo over the selection of the second Test 12 with its five changes . |
| 18 | A good deal of the historical footage I had already seen over the years and some of it , such as the dreadful footage of the Warsaw Ghetto , was only too familiar . |
| 19 | The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings . |
| 20 | The sensitivities and specificities of symptoms ( and signs ) show that these are not good indicators of the likely site of a lesion causing anaemia . |
| 21 | Randall Yarwood was eventually confirmed in the office by the Company on probation on 8th August 1645 , but lasted only until Good Friday of the following year . |
| 22 | The rate of decrease of the pulse after vigorous exercise is a good indication of the overall fitness of an individual . |
| 23 | This is something that you may feel a need to be sure of , and it is quite possible to devise tests which will give at least a good indication of the likely impact of the ad in these terms . |
| 24 | Certain conditions can be described specifically e.g. broken limb etc , which when allied with the claimant 's occupation can generally provide a good indication of the potential duration of a claim . |
| 25 | Foucault 's account is particularly useful insofar as it gives a good indication of the characteristic French , as opposed to German , emphasis on the relation of Marxism to enlightenment rationality and the questioning of enlightenment claims to the universality of its values . |
| 26 | Likewise Churchill , who would have agreed with her sentiment when she told him that without the Board of Education , the Board of Trade was ‘ powerless ’ to make ‘ a better worker , a better man , or a better citizen of the young worker . ’ |
| 27 | In order to gain a better appreciation of the genotypic risk , the relative risk of gastric body ulcer associated with the genotypes was estimated . |
| 28 | For once , the UK is in the good books of the European Space Agency ( ESA ) for our support of the European Remote Sensing ( ERS ) programme , which will use the most complex satellites it has ever attempted to build . |
| 29 | Zoos have a good stock of the lar gibbon Hylobates lar but are low on all the others , and so the CBSG is advising zoos to get rid of their lars and replace them with species such as hoolock H. hoolock and concolor H. concolor . |
| 30 | ‘ foster better exploitation of the industrial potential of policies of innovation , research and technological development . ’ |