Example sentences of "good of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cambridge struck 38½ to Oxford 's 40 in the first minute and despite the Light Blues having the better of the tide , the crews were level at Beverley Brook . |
| 2 | Did I expect anything better of the Chancellor ? |
| 3 | Thereafter Heybridge fought well throughout and had far the better of the play . |
| 4 | The visitors also got the better of the try count , scoring five tries to Worthing 's four in a fast-moving match . |
| 5 | Yes , in that sense , in that sense , the unconscious thought was expressed but the , but the point was , i the anxiety as it were got the better of the dream , did n't it , if you woke up ? |
| 6 | A trio of English runners featured in the women 's 1500 metres where the two 800 metres runners got the better of the specialist at the distance , Christina Cahill . |
| 7 | ‘ But I have had by far the better of the deal because the consultancy advice I have had from her has outweighed that ten times over . |
| 8 | There was plenty of open rugby but with Instonians gaining the better of the forward encounters especially in the loose , their three-quarters had the better opportunities to move the ball . |
| 9 | Though no-one was prepared to admit that Roman Catholics had got the better of the argument , some Protestants felt a certain dissatisfaction with an afterlife in which all earnest endeavour , for better or worse , was at an end . |
| 10 | Over her supine body Andrew and Horatia 's eyes met and she took the initiative , knowing she had to get the better of the marquis straight away . |
| 11 | This is to inform you all that me and my Companions have Unanamously agreed and likewise made Oath to Each other that if There is not a speedy Altaration made for the Good of the poore that you have corn thinking to make your fortunes of shall have it burnt to the Ground whether it Be in Stacks or Barns for the fire that took place Last Week was but the begining of your Troble , we know every Stack of Corn about this Country , and Every Barn that hath Corn concealed in it for the Purpos of starving the Poore But we are Determind if thare is to Be Starvation it shall be a General thing not a parcial one for both Gentle and Simple shall Starve if any Do . |
| 12 | Lib-Dem candidate Chris Abbott tells us it was very good of the printer but we are unable to reproduce what he himself says . |
| 13 | And for good of the nation |
| 14 | My Lords , I er apologise first of all that I was not able to hear some of the earlier speeches in this Debate erm but it does seem to me a most interesting Debate and I have to confess that I always become slightly uneasy er when the great and the good , and I suppose we should collectively cast ourselves in that role of being the great and good of the establishment are all of one view and I wonder whether it is necessarily right and so I begin to question er whether your Lordships enthusiasm for many of these amendments and their attack upon the Government 's proposals is necessarily as soundly based as we might think if we just listen to casually to it all . |
| 15 | Alas , Castle Master , though widely regarded as the best of the Freescape games , suffers from the similar snail-paced somnambulance as its soporific stablemates . |
| 16 | The best of the west and south-facing slopes are far superior to either Puisieulx or Sillery , but they nevertheless merit a modest premier and not grand cru status . |
| 17 | He described the mess over there , and how the Best of the West horse parade had ended ten minutes before the quake hit . |
| 18 | They pick and choose the best of the West and incorporate it into their living mysticism . |
| 19 | I went up to her after the show to congratulate her on the song which was the best of the night . |
| 20 | This has to be the best of the commonality tactics . |
| 21 | The pack will pull the carcass apart , competing for the best of the kill , and Fido plays tug-of-war games , hoping to win the toy . |
| 22 | Seriously , one can understand the Archbishop 's concern to retain the best of the tradition : a liturgy involving elements of worship ; confession ; intercession ; Bible reading ; biblical preaching and blessing . |
| 23 | or who 's got the best of the play ? |
| 24 | And erm well we wrapped up a whole pile of paper for paper paper recycling and erm we mushed it up and the best of the stuff we put in the liquidizer and erm we put it in a tank and dyed left some stuff as it were and we dyed some other stuff green . |
| 25 | After a year of One Over The Eight , ( ‘ Kenneth Williams is the best of the genre , ’ wrote Robert Muller in the Daily Mail ) Ken left the cast and his part was taken over by Kenneth Connor . |
| 26 | Leicester needed the goalstart for it was the visitors who surged forward with the best of the goal chances . |
| 27 | to be , in some measure , celebratory , showing the best of the child and a clear view of his/her growing development |
| 28 | It would be somewhat difficult to pick the best of the Villa San Paolo 's many attractions , but , if we were pushed to it , we would go for the stupendous view from the swimming pool . |
| 29 | P. W. Conolly , when District Judge at Negombo , wrote that ‘ when parties quarrel and assault each other , it is no uncommon thing for the person who has got the best of the struggle to have an animal brought to the spot , and a charge of cattle stealing is preferred against the unfortunate man who has been assaulted . ’ |
| 30 | By arguing that general managers would have to " harness the best of the consensus management approach and avoid the worst of the problems it can present " ( DHSS 1983 : 17 ) , Griffiths appeared to recognise the difficulties of managing a multiprofessional service while seriously underestimating the power of doctors in particular to resist being managed . |