Example sentences of "good [noun] of [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's the good part of going to , The . |
| 2 | Or the initiator may be a tutor from an in-service teacher training department , a member of a child guidance unit or related school services involved in consultancy training , the school 's educational psychologist with good experience of working with teachers , interested staff from the local special needs or teachers centre , special schools or units or the LEA advisory team . |
| 3 | Can we actually pause there cos you 've done a good bit of digging on that one . |
| 4 | On 4 March he wrote : ‘ [ The breakfasts ] give me a good opportunity of studying that strange little genius who presides over us . |
| 5 | Not the young Francis either , in whom I stood a better hope of experiencing the odd happy memory , but Francis as I 'd last experienced him with the tang of his Lucky Strikes , last night 's whisky and dejection all togged up as joie de vivre . |
| 6 | So a cat entering your house and being welcomed there gave you the good luck of having the Devil on your side . |
| 7 | Well we set out with the good intention of taking her for a long walk this morning but er we changed our mind did n't we ? |
| 8 | The builders of the new machinery , principally the DES , do so with the good intention of putting the law into practice . |
| 9 | particular importance will be attached to providing good methods of displaying results . |
| 10 | But a good piece of attacking play from Weston . |
| 11 | There is a danger in the search for good practice of looking only at those schools with good academic records . |
| 12 | Now we need to develop the good practice of making sure that the client is there , to give rights and responsibilities back to vulnerable elderly clients within their family situation . |
| 13 | There were parties , but there was also a good deal of hanging out and late night discussion . |
| 14 | Because food preparation generally involves a good deal of doubling back to and from the refrigerator , sink , stove and different work surfaces , the walking distance between all the main work areas should not be excessive . |
| 15 | There was a good deal of plotting in the Cabinet , and amongst the dissident ex-Coalitionists . |
| 16 | For my twentieth century British Design retrospective exhibition , he lent me , with a good deal of fussing and commotion , his last remaining ‘ Heartsease ’ cup and saucer , a Wedgwood design of the early 1950s . |
| 17 | There was a good deal of quarrelling — an average of about eight fights , or potential fights , per hour . |
| 18 | There was n't much of that done in it , but a good deal of rendezvousing and sitting in the sun . |
| 19 | It was all going to take a good deal of sorting out . |
| 20 | Which he duly does — with his solicitor in attendance , and with a good deal of heckling . |
| 21 | There was good deal of heckling and questions thrown at him about the nature of democracy , free speech and freedom of the press . |
| 22 | The defeat , as was natural , led to a good deal of rumbling , particularly against the Conservative Central Office , where Davidson , the Chairman since 1927 , was far too much Baldwin 's own man to be a satisfactory lightning conductor . |
| 23 | None of them pushed their opposition to the point of resignation , although there was a good deal of muttering and discussion . |
| 24 | Many high-fibre fruits and vegetables , nuts and dry breakfast cereals ( shredded wheat , for instance , as opposed to porridge ) need a good deal of chewing before they can be comfortably swallowed . |
| 25 | ‘ We certainly do a good deal of counselling these days , ’ Rachel agreed . |
| 26 | There was a good deal of howling from her and a few overripe adjectives , but she was better padded than the seats of the Transit . |
| 27 | There was also an acceptance , as the implications were worked out later in the paper , that Terminal courses with ‘ a good deal of teaching at quite an elementary level ’ were ‘ a most important part ’ of the WEA 's work ; that university graduates , who usually had a narrow academic education , could benefit from the breadth of learning offered by the WEA quite as much as manual workers ; that courses in literature and the arts were clearly a valid part of the WEA 's total provision because they attracted new members , taught the processes of serious study and by enriching lives helped ‘ in raising the quality of the public which has the power of judgement upon those set in authority over it ’ . |
| 28 | After just an hour and a quarter the band said goodnight , and after a good deal of clapping and foot stamping Harry came back to one last song on his own . |
| 29 | A top-level decision to embark on a nuclear weapons programme … might well involve falsification of records and a good deal of covering up . |
| 30 | Women may have problems keeping weight down at the time of the menopause and after , and men and businesswomen have their own difficulties if their work involves a good deal of sitting at a desk or car wheel , and giving or receiving hospitality lunches . |