Example sentences of "a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its main function , however , appears to be to present a better image of Sri Lanka to the outside world . |
| 2 | The women are the vessels of a better spirit ; the injury to them is greater , and it is their own men who are responsible for some of that injury . |
| 3 | We need to be of ‘ now ’ and maybe that 's a better way of playing ‘ then ’ . |
| 4 | Do you think there 's a better means of selection , other than what seem generally to be regarded as a rather barbaric system ? |
| 5 | Perhaps ‘ salvation by grace , experienced in listening to the preaching or reading of the biblical word , and in affirming the literal interpretation of that word ’ might be a better if clumsier phrase . |
| 6 | In fact , he wrote , I suspect that I will produce a better edition , one more worthy of its subject , now I have had time to mull over its implications and to watch the blossoming of your reputation . |
| 7 | And when I 'm with the other I just feel myself to be a better person . |
| 8 | He told them to leave her be , she was in a better state to understand him than anyone else there . |
| 9 | In York , one of the country 's major historic and tourist centres and the city best known to this writer , the visitor 's search for some genuine experience of a better , bygone England will find little reward inside most of the old city 's public houses . |
| 10 | Commenting on the Heathrow installation , BAA Hotels managing director Jeremy Logie said : ‘ The primary role of technology is to give the guest a better experience at the hotel . |
| 11 | HOTECH 91 , the technology exhibition for the industry , offers the solutions to help you run a better business . |
| 12 | No wine region is a better case study of the new Italy than Friuli-Venezia Giulia . |
| 13 | It bottles only 4% of its production under the Cellaro label , paying growers a bonus for healthier grapes with a better balance of sugar and acidity . |
| 14 | Tomorrow , if I could find a better medium , I would throw away cinema . |
| 15 | If I 'd been a union member I might have held out for a better offer or some redundancy money , but I was n't , so that was that . |
| 16 | Admittedly I was depressed again — no , not depressed exactly , low would be a better word . |
| 17 | Your plants will need time to become really well established to give them a better chance of surviving a harsh winter . |
| 18 | Below 1,500 feet , the maps should be ignored and priority should be given to checking for suitable fields below while also searching for lift , re-checking on the local wind direction and moving towards a better area of fields if necessary . |
| 19 | Keep re-checking the field and reselect if a better one becomes apparent . |
| 20 | You do not need a complete conventional circuit with a long downwind leg , although this will obviously give you more time in which to have a better look at the field . |
| 21 | It is also worthwhile attempting the occasional no airbrake touch down to get a better idea of how far your glider will float . |
| 22 | If that 's not a new start to a better life , what is ? |
| 23 | It is very important not to drink early in the pregnancy , but even if you give up drinking later it will give your baby a better chance . |
| 24 | It is more common in older women but , if the small changes are discovered early , there is a better chance of a successful recovery — and less likelihood of serious surgery . |
| 25 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 26 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 27 | A subjective element in the account provides a better potential to unravel the semantic patterns which structure the maintenance of this executive unit of power . |
| 28 | A better version of reality is that although the quality of ‘ capture ’ has tremendous semantic significance for both uniform policeman and detective , it rarely leads to large numbers of detections for the monthly , quarterly , or annual reports . |
| 29 | You sell your time for money to have a better time in the unsold hours . |
| 30 | ‘ Come on , Miss Dyke , ’ said Jamie , ‘ let's have a ripalong-a-Lucy session and see if we ca n't shoosh you m-to a better frame of mind . |