Example sentences of "very good [noun sg] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were correct 92 times out of Ill , indicating very good awareness of the amount of time elapsed . |
| 2 | Very good part of the investigation . |
| 3 | Foreign visitors will expect the receptionist to have a very good knowledge of the country in general . |
| 4 | It is perhaps a discouraging thing to say , but learners of English who are not able to talk regularly with native speakers of English , or who are not able at least to listen regularly to colloquial English , are not likely to learn English intonation , though they may learn very good pronunciation of the segments and use stress correctly . |
| 5 | ‘ I was lucky in that I was appointed as the group was beginning to take off so I had a very good relationship with the plc directors . |
| 6 | First of all I think we have worked out the importance of establishing a very good relationship with the media and that 's developing and that means that , that the views of the trade union movement are beginning to be heard , er , when we , when we spoke to the editor of the local paper for example , we pointed out that on the business page there 's nothing about trade unions and did he think that business er existed without er on , just on one side . |
| 7 | The teachers have a very good relationship with the kids , you know . |
| 8 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ Andy Goodway has been a very good servant of the club . |
| 9 | In a remnant of old forest I came on some grazing deer and quickly dropped to ground and crawled in under a small bank where I was able to stay out of sight , out of smell , and enjoy a very good look at the herd . |
| 10 | So far there has been a very good response to the society , membership is climbing steadily , and many offers of help are being received . |
| 11 | The single cell recording studies carried out on rhesus monkeys show a very good correlation between the blobs and wavelength tuning , suggesting a role in colour vision . |
| 12 | For example there is very good correlation between the arrival of swallows and summer , but no one suggests that the presence of swallows causes summer . |
| 13 | Pepys , who sailed with Ken in the flagship , describes how he gave ‘ a very good sermon on the duty of subjects to their Prince ’ and how in Tangiers he preached against the vices of the town and later ‘ engaged in very high discourse ’ with the Governor , the infamous Colonel Kirke , about the excessive liberty of swearing . |
| 14 | Alastair was a tall , handsome man , who would have looked very good striding over the heather in a kilt . |
| 15 | Aith lifeboat had been making very good progress towards the scene , in extremely bad weather conditions , but was recalled on hearing that the survivor had been rescued . |
| 16 | ‘ Paddock grazing ’ , in which the grassland is divided into small paddocks , grazed hard for a short period and then rested for up to three weeks , is a very good system for the control of parasite worms , the life cycle of which is broken during the rest periods . |
| 17 | Certainly Frager makes a very good case for the use of the early instrument . |
| 18 | If the story has gone through to printing the PRO 's stock will be even lower and he should not expect very good coverage in the future . |
| 19 | The driver stopped the jeep outside the Saulnier farm for a few moments to say goodbye to the farmer , a very good friend to the Commandos , especially No. 6 Commando . |
| 20 | ‘ There are the possible makings of not a very good night for the Republicans , ’ said CBS television newsreader Dan Rather . |
| 21 | It is actually a very good performance of the piece , so it is possible to conclude that Ravel was present only in an advisory capacity , if at all . |
| 22 | There was another very good performance in the Pacific which produced a profit of $1.8m against a loss in the same period last year of $1.4m . |
| 23 | I think it would be a very good idea for the leaflet to be written by a cyclist , and I would be interested in doing something myself . |
| 24 | The class teacher will be assessing pupils ' achievement across a range of subjects , and will have a very good idea of the child 's progress and development . |
| 25 | The reason for that is that they 're in a very good position in the market now , they , they can negotiate very good deals on houses they 're buying , there 's a very good choice of properties available , people by the mid nineteen nineties will look back on nineteen ninety as probably the time to have bought , when house prices were at their cheapest . |
| 26 | For those animals which have backbones , the rate of their heartbeats is a very good indication of the rate at which they live their lives . |
| 27 | The numbers on the tickets illustrated gives a very good indication of the volume of traffic between the several stations . |
| 28 | Saunders added : ‘ It is becoming a very good team with the defence looking really solid . ’ |
| 29 | They did n't take very good care of the library . |
| 30 | Thank you Pauline , very , that er very good report on the Health Service . |