Example sentences of "very good [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Opening the box certainly reveals a very good range of accessories .
2 Arts and Letters Apprentice has one of the best quality selections of editable clip-art , and a very good range of fonts .
3 I had a very good knowledge of Edinburgh by the time I was five .
4 Most of them have a very good knowledge of English , even down to the most obscure idiom , but they are not always fluent in expressing their ideas .
5 Everything is going right and the act have a very good chance of success .
6 And in terms of unity there is n't a very good chance of unity with British feminists right now in this country because whenever we start discussing our issues , out comes the racism , out comes the attempts to monopolise our struggle .
7 I know it would be premature , but at twenty-eight weeks there 's a very good chance of survival , and with every day of your pregnancy that passes , that chance improves . ’
8 And certainly if they come for interview , if they apply to the university , they get a very good chance of entrance .
9 " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye .
10 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 .
11 Very good choice of options — perhaps too many ’ .
12 Death rates seem not to be a very good indicator of disease rates either .
13 ‘ They must have a very good system of communication , do n't you think ? ’
14 Scurvy — humph — Scurvy — Stay — Pox , that 's a Scurvy Rhime , and a Scurvy question now : The nearest to it , is a very good friend of mines Name , that begins with a D
15 He had said he was a very good friend of Danny , Carrie 's brother , and it was likely that she would see him sometime in the future .
16 They were not in a very good state of conservation , having been drastically overcleaned in previous restoration campaigns sponsored by the Carthusian monks .
17 It is felt by the Senior Management Team that the number of pupils achieving a very good standard of work which is reflected in high examination results could , in fact , be greater if the department were prepared to expect more of their pupils .
18 On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living .
19 The very good performance of division reported in some cases ( Lum , Yuen and Dodd , Severance and Duhne ) , and relatively poor performance in others ( Kaimann ) , is likely to have been the result of few or many clashes of this kind .
20 I netted the same ground six weeks later and had a very good kill of rabbits , but in the whole of my long-netting career I have never known a net to be genuinely swept away by the weight of the rabbits it caught .
21 We do not have a very good sense of smell , and as a result we are often tactless when handling animals .
22 Behind us lay the snow-streaked slopes of Mount Shasta , one of the seven sacred mountains of the world ; before us lay the Sisson Callaghan Trail , an old Indian trade route ( today used by old Indians with a very good sense of direction ) .
23 They had a very good sense of humour and could tell long sophisticated stories in what is called the spaccato , the real dialect of Parma .
24 Does n't have a very good sense of humour .
25 ‘ Well , you 're not a very good judge of character , though , are you , Lauren ? ’
26 He is also a very good judge of character as he describes Estella as
27 Among the more traditional offerings were a very good group of works by Graham Sutherland .
28 The EC 5 , EC 9 , and EC 9 9 were 0.4091 , 0.9400 , and 1.8523 nmol/L , respectively , indicating very good sensitivity of P falciparum to halofantrine in vitro .
29 Adler and Asquith ( 1981 ) edited a very good collection of essays by different authors on welfare and discretion .
30 Aluminium , pretty important , also a very good conductor of electricity .
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