Example sentences of "a good [noun sg] of this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it w which will give you a better picture of this graph , but we gon na have to get a chunk on this . |
| 2 | Whatever the right labels , the attitudinist agrees that no properly ethical expression can be adequately defined in purely naturalistic or even metaphysical terms but offers what he thinks a better explanation of this fact than the invocation of non-natural properties , namely that such definitions ignore valuational or emotive meaning . |
| 3 | To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm . |
| 4 | Sheffield has a very active Natural History Society , which has accumulated a good knowledge of this city 's fauna . |
| 5 | If we could observe them , it would provide a good test of this picture of a very hot early stage of the universe . |
| 6 | ( See Goodman and Redclift 1981 for a good discussion of this debate ) . |
| 7 | A good exponent of this approach is Renford Bambrough . |
| 8 | A good illustration of this principle is provided by the rules concerning ‘ statutory default powers ’ , that is , powers of ministers of central government to give directions to an authority which fails to perform some statutory duty ( or , sometimes , a statutory power ) as to what it must do in pursuance of its duty ( or in exercise of its power ) . |
| 9 | A good illustration of this point is provided by a case in which the London Borough of Greenwich sought to challenge by judicial review the distribution by the Government of a leaflet explaining the poll tax : the Borough argued that the leaflet was inaccurate and , therefore , that its distribution was illegal . |
| 10 | Hammersmith Road is a good illustration of this process at work . |
| 11 | The case study by Sanderson ( 1985 ) on the emergence of the ‘ World Steer ’ is a good illustration of this process . |
| 12 | It is obviously wise to ensure a good intake of this vitamin . |
| 13 | A good deal of this position can be attributed to discrimination on the part of employers . |
| 14 | True , he owned a good deal of this land and could stop any building on his own acres . |
| 15 | A good deal of this book is about the inequality that exists in British society . |
| 16 | A good deal of this security is located in the routines making up practical consciousness — predictability reduces anxiety . |
| 17 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |
| 18 | Now in this respect , of course , twenty-five years is rather a short time in the life of a university , and a good deal of this time has been spent in building up a research base , and now , as you mentioned in your erm remarks a few moments ago , Andrew , we have an enviable research record in a very wide range of disciplines . |
| 19 | ‘ Come and take a good sniff of this day , ’ he said , pushing open the window . |
| 20 | Cricketing celebrity and journalist Robin Marler is a good example of this genre . |
| 21 | A good example of this kind is at Borraichill Mhor , in Kildalton , where a drystone wall encloses a plateau . |
| 22 | A good example of this kind is at Borraichill Mhor , in Kildalton , where a drystone wall encloses a plateau . |
| 23 | St Albans is a good example of this type , if we think away the large block of building that lies between the present market place and the street called Chequer Street that lies behind . |
| 24 | A good example of this type is provided by Cork Harbour ( Fig. 7.13 ) and another by Plymouth Sound . |
| 25 | Irony is a good example of this exploitation and the difficulties such usages pose for a pragmatic theory based on appropriateness , for ironies take their effect and their communicative import , and thus their appropriateness , precisely from their inappropriateness . |
| 26 | A good example of this difficulty is provided by Davis ( 1984 ) , who examined constraints on the for to complementizer in Belfast English , in sentences of the following type : |
| 27 | Flying In A Blue Dream is a good example of this scale in action in his music . |
| 28 | A good example of this imbalance can be seen in psycholinguistics , where the study of language comprehension , being more experimental , is markedly more advanced than the study of language production , in which the investigator has less control over what happens . |
| 29 | Again , the US , where concern over the concentration of economic power is most strong , provides a good example of this sort of regulatory measure . |
| 30 | Maury 's dream could be a good example of this sort of attempt at comprehension of a series of striking but unconnected images and sensations , a form of the " effort after meaning " that the Cambridge psychologist Sir Frederick Bartlett ascribed to normal waking memory processes in the first half of this century . |