Example sentences of "[adv] a good " in BNC.

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1 This is sometimes regarded as old fashioned thinking , unfortunately , and it 's a shame , for although clothes do n't actually make you perform better a good comfortable appearance does give the panel a chance to see how you see yourself and how your body uses clothes .
2 Ideology is apparently a better predictor of attitudes of American voters to the introduction of a national health insurance programme than the personal benefits that individuals can expect to receive .
3 Apparently a good diet is the important factor is getting them to spawn .
4 Before long a good deal of the poetry that women had written would seem decidedly out of date .
5 It was , it was somewhat a good thing that somebody was prepared to buy it .
6 Naturally a good driver will not turn his head to talk to his companion .
7 Neither my sister nor I can remember exactly what we had for dinner , but we chose not merely a good cheese but a claret of which we hoped he would approve .
8 Cordoba had clearly cried enough a good two furlongs from the finish as first Batzushka and then Balla Cove set a furious pace which resulted in a time that equalled the course record by a two-year-old over six furlongs .
9 Perhaps a better word would be suicidal .
10 He either stood rooted child-gazing or ran , though gallop was perhaps a better word .
11 Perhaps a better explanation is that Derridean ‘ theory ’ , never fully accepted in England , has fallen subtly out of favour .
12 There are still many people who think ( perhaps a better word is ‘ hope ’ ! ) that a gyro can do all the work of controlling the tail and thus leave the pilot free to concentrate on other things .
13 He allowed her more freedom of choice than many of his clients who were perhaps a better advertisement for his dressmaking skills .
14 He claims that he has always been an ‘ outsider ’ , ‘ unique ’ is perhaps a better description .
15 There was perhaps a better chance of enlisting the reader 's belief in Ayesha in involving her with that most believable hero , Allan Quatermain .
16 Perhaps a better definition of discourse processing is to state that it attempts to describe the ’ extra meanings ’ that come about due to the combination of individual sentences within a larger passage of text .
17 Perhaps there was hope , perhaps all was not harsh antipathy , perhaps a better daughter might have found a way to soften such a mother .
18 But perhaps a better title might be how to prevent things going wrong , on the argument you know that prevention is better than cure and rather than trying to put problems right which have already happened , it might be better to try to prevent them happening in the first place .
19 However , the case of Creffield v BBC , 1974 IRLR 23 , is perhaps a better indicator of the difficulties which face tribunals in such cases .
20 I do n't think anybody can agree , there is , there is perhaps a better way of looking at the current formula , but I 'm just a little bit concerned having read this report and seen the purpose , about the way that er , the A C C are , are pressing for the
21 So that had she been able to take her history exam , she would have needed rather a good grade there , perhaps a better grade than her past performance suggested she would have attained .
22 Archaeology , in the sense of deciding where to excavate , is perhaps a good example of where the psychic ability may often be used unconsciously .
23 That this should be the case is perhaps a good indication of the need that Christian women feel to find themselves represented symbolically in their religion .
24 It is perhaps a good deal less than certain that this third characterization is conceptually distinct from the first two .
25 It is perhaps a good way of avoiding the hermeneutic error .
26 Perhaps a good dose of stress is just what I 'm crying out for .
27 Perhaps a good case for it might be made , but it seldom is .
28 Asking what one remembers a couple of months after a conference is perhaps a good way of judging the event .
29 In reply to Lanark Road residents ’ objections , perhaps a good example of how carriageway reduction can simultaneously reduce traffic speed and volume is Niddrie Mains Road , where 4 lanes were reduced to 2 a couple of years ago .
30 Asking questions , referring , they keep doing that all these ideas here perhaps a good starting point is a job analysis .
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