Example sentences of "[vb infin] a [adv] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon he will need a really good teacher . |
| 2 | Remember , at this time you could buy a really good Martin flat-top for around forty dollars , but the cheapest Tri-Plate — the plain , unengraved Style 1 — would cost you eighty-five dollars . |
| 3 | The one thing that would have persuaded him to accept an invitation for the Stuttgart Ballet to go to South Africa would have been if he could show a really good black dancer working alongside the whites . |
| 4 | Then a light sanding between coats , and a dust , will ensure a really good finish |
| 5 | We did n't do a particularly good practice on Thursday . |
| 6 | In fact there has been a radical shake up and I 'm confident we can do a much better job this time . |
| 7 | It is a heavy serviceable machine and I am not really knocking Wilson because in another situation it would probably do a very good job but for us it is just not a very pleasant tool to be with . |
| 8 | Well I think my parents did the best they could but the pressures that were on them they , they did n't do a very good job ! |
| 9 | Our arsonist , I 'm afraid , did n't do a very good job . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm sure he 'll do a very good job … ’ |
| 11 | this was with a pair of glasses he took off , he did n't do a very good Michael Caine , he did er Jimmy Greaves and er Dennis Nordon , Gazza really fucking well you know , he did a brilliant Robin Williams |
| 12 | ‘ The tests were poor discriminators and , in terms of checking on their progress and diagnosing their weaknesses , we could do a far better job ourselves in a fraction of the time , ’ he declared |
| 13 | With Digital Equipment Corp closing its proprietary VAX manufacturing plant in Galway , Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSoft unit will today bring a little good news to the Republic of Ireland , when it announces the establishment of a software development centre outside Dublin . |
| 14 | With Digital Equipment Corp closing its proprietary VAX manufacturing plant in Galway — see page three — Unix supplier Sun Microsystems Inc 's SunSoft satellite will this week bring a little good news to the Republic of Ireland , when it announces on Tuesday the establishment of a software development centre outside Dublin . |
| 15 | ‘ Sure , we want to make profits to give our shareholders a reasonable return on their investment , and to enable us to maintain and enhance our capital base so that we can give a steadily better service to an ever larger number of customers . |
| 16 | ‘ We should have beaten them a couple of weeks ago when we finished all square and I have every faith in the boys , ’ asserts Nelson , ‘ Since then we went very close against Tipperary and given the self-belief the team now possesses I think we can give a very good account of ourselves on Sunday . ’ |
| 17 | It ai n't gon na give a very good impression . |
| 18 | Yes , but it did n't happen , although I did feel a little better for being at least partially honest . |
| 19 | Many things about AIDS are uncertain but the more you know about it , the less you will be afraid — and you could become a very good friend to people who have to live with this problem . |
| 20 | I think he will become a very good administrator . |
| 21 | But he he does look a very good goalkeeper . |
| 22 | Chief executive Joe Dwyer said : ‘ The firmer expectations of economic revival now apparent in the UK and U.S. give me confidence that some of our markets , particularly housing , will see a markedly better trend before the year-end . ’ |
| 23 | The designer is not the person to evaluate the clarity and usability of instructions , a sample of actual users will provide a much better assessment . |
| 24 | The reputable shareware libraries in the UK do provide a very good service , in that they make sure that a : the author receives his payment , and b : the user receives the goods . |
| 25 | Moving on into the sort of sensors and the electronics side , erm for survivability erm the defensive aid sub- system will be er very complex , very sophisticated but also integrated so that it has a complete system of protection for the aircraft , erm an and finally moving on on the sort of electronics side then clearly with different sensors such as the radar , the forward looking infra-red , infra-red search and track the er multiple information distribution system and also certain aspects of the er electronic warfare suite then by having sensor fusion which enables the best information at any one time to be correlated into the system as a whole then that will provide a very good capability and far in excess of anything that we have at the moment . |
| 26 | I want to concentrate on whether it will provide a sufficiently good means of dealing with young people . |
| 27 | Matilda said , ‘ I would like a really good one that grown-ups read . |
| 28 | I said , I 'd like a really good pair of trainers . |
| 29 | Do you think I might just find anybody here who 'd like a really good snog ? |
| 30 | The company could use a little good news . |