Example sentences of "a good [noun] of [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Friendly service provides a warm welcome at the front desk and continues in the air-conditioned dining-room , where a good standard of meals includes a buffet breakfast and choice at lunch and dinner . |
| 2 | ( There is no doubt that a good head of hair gives a man a wholly unjustified appearance of moral authority , witness Supreme Court judges and senators . ) |
| 3 | When the signal dropped there was some initial wheelspin ( on the green rock ) , but a good head of steam came in no time . |
| 4 | I have found a five-acre lake which has both deep and shallow water and I have heard that it holds a good head of carp averaging 8lb to 14lb with a distinct possibility of a 20-pounder . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's fair to say that we liked the thought of it going to somewhere like Embsay , which does n't have any other big engines , because it will do a good bit of flag flying for us there . ’ |
| 6 | There seems to be a good bit of evidence to suggest that the reign of Bayezid I ( 1389–1402 ) was , in the eyes of the pious , a dangerously irreligious one . |
| 7 | I succeeded almost immediately and found a good alignment of moats ending at Gill 's Lap pine clump on Ashdown Forest , one of the marks noted by Tony Wedd . |
| 8 | The same flood tide that had brought such a good harvest of tiles heaped a mass of driftwood onto the Reach . |
| 9 | It is advisable that a good cross-section of teachers play this role and that they are not really involved in the initial stages of development in order that the ultimate effectiveness of the unit can be assessed . |
| 10 | A good bottle of wine to finish with is the reward ! |
| 11 | There are lots and lots of other features that are worth mentioning — a simple animation facility , linking objects to numbers , automatic dimensioning , a good range of gradient fills , linked text boxes for almost DTP quality text control , and so on and so on … |
| 12 | However , a good choice of material to use for a wardrobe is medium-density fibreboard , which is stronger than chipboard , will not warp like timber , and has a smooth finish that can be painted directly . |
| 13 | I 'm not gon na spend a I mean there 's a good couple of hours talking here and w I 'm gon na use the time more productively I think talking about other aspects of the course . |
| 14 | In an ideal playground , there 'd be a good selection of equipment covering as wide an age range as possible . |
| 15 | There is a good selection of components to put inside your wardrobe . |
| 16 | There are useful ‘ orbats ’ ; a good selection of photos includes portraits , museum exhibits , contemporary diagrammatic drawings of wagons , artillery pieces , Gatlings ; and groups taken at the time . |
| 17 | I mean some you can stop 'em with a s sheet of thick paper or others will go through very solid objects and as you say you need a good sheet of lead to stop it . |
| 18 | there 's a good weekend of sport coming up … what with international rugby and a test match for the England cricketers in New Zealand … that 's where we start our weekly roundup |
| 19 | ‘ You got to have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs to go up there . |
| 20 | We 'll have them there now , a good pair of earrings. have them there . |
| 21 | Much depends on having a good provision of aids geared to the needs of those in residence , not ‘ hand me downs ’ from previous occupants , to maximise individual independence . |
| 22 | They are a development of the system of weirs and flash locks where a stretch of water was impounded to provide a good depth of water to flush or ‘ flash ’ a boat along its way . |
| 23 | In the community tank where the decor consists of numerous caves made from rockwork , with a good depth of gravel to act as a filter medium , and where the fish tend to dig less than in a tank especially set up for breeding , then undergravel filtration will be adequate once the biological action in the gravel has become firmly established . |
| 24 | Between them , though , these hoofed herbivores ( ungulates ) demonstrate how efficiently vegetation can be divided up and utilized , if nature is given time enough for evolution to work , and a good variety of genes to work upon . |
| 25 | A good way of traffic calming is to get more people to use public transport . |
| 26 | You see , for me a good game of football involves lots of intricate passing . |
| 27 | I was panicking a bit about a week before the sale as stuff was not coming in very quickly but thanks to Nursery Needs and all those who did last minute searches we had a good amount of stuff to sell in the end . |
| 28 | And they 've made a good job of tiling have n't they ? |
| 29 | A good understanding of video making and its potential will help you in your PR work . |
| 30 | Is early March a good time of year to hold the conference ? |