Example sentences of "[det] [prep] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Medieval brewers alas knew precious little about good housekeeping practices . |
| 2 | Suppose : That through good collecting your average accounts receivable are reduced to £ 150,000 , which means they are outstanding for an average of 45 days . |
| 3 | Benny took this as good advice not only about Eve , but about Patsy herself . |
| 4 | 3 Do this through good grading of structures by arranging them in order of difficulty ( facilitation ) and by introducing them one at a time if possible . |
| 5 | Fran took a slow deep breath and another for good measure , then let rip . |
| 6 | I make my own purse nets but some of good quality can be bought from all well-stocked gunshops . |
| 7 | Of course , you will always find a minority of inhabitants will complain , some with good reason , but the remainder complain because that 's their hobby . |
| 8 | I have tried to deal with this in good faith , but if anyone feels they have a problem , all they have to do is come back to this office . ’ |
| 9 | Er indeed the directive was promulgated as the minister said but I do n't think it was a bolt out of the blue , it was of course something that we around for some considerable time before that and of course that excuse hardly applies to the delay in establishing the European parliamentary constituency committees , er as the minister er will know very well , it was merely a matter of seven weeks , er the excuse being that had they had another seven weeks they could have had the public inquiry stage , the reality of course was that there was plenty of time to do this in good time and in good order and without the confusion that exists now er around the candidatures and the boundaries of the existing European boundaries . |
| 10 | When Kalm visited Miller , they discussed cultivation of trees , particularly conifers , and he was told that at Woburn larches had been planted ‘ some in good soil , some in meagre ’ and the latter ‘ looked very lively , while the former looked quite drooping , as though they were obliged reluctantly to force themselves to grow ’ . |
| 11 | The advertising media ( that includes TV , magazines and newspapers , posters and packaging ) use this to good effect when they encourage us to buy certain products . |
| 12 | He had put this to good use by doing organisational work for the U.S. Communist Party in Harlem and he had taken the party name of George Padmore . |
| 13 | Human skeletons and a cannon-ball weighing twelve pounds have been unearthed in the garden , and the names ‘ Battle Well ’ and ‘ Battle Cottages ’ , both found close by , are unlikely to have been called this without good reason . |
| 14 | It was unbelievable that anyone could condemn her like this without good reason . |
| 15 | He is aided in this by good actors like Angela Punch McGregor as the girl 's mother and Bruno Lawrence ( so good in New Zealand 's in Smash Palace ) as the boy 's sea-faring mentor . |
| 16 | It is true that it is possible to get over this by good workmanship and sophisticated construction but then the cost is higher than that of building in steel or plastics . |
| 17 | The second requirement is that of good timing . |
| 18 | One other possible area of danger is that of good facsimiles , which are more likely to be met with from time to time than competent forgeries . |
| 19 | ‘ So much for good old British justice ! |
| 20 | ( a ) Why might society wish to ban drugs that neither help nor harm the diseases they are claimed to cure ? ( b ) It is sometimes argued that regulatory bodies will be blamed for bad things that happen in spite of the regulations ( e.g. a plane crash ) but not blamed so much for good things that are prevented ( e.g. the quick availability of a safe and useful drug ) by stringent tests and regulations . |
| 21 | It says much for good project management and the company management , which kept production going while the extension work was going on . |
| 22 | As many clinicians will point out , utilisation review at its best should be as much about good clinical practice ( ie clinical efficiency ) as about cost containment . |
| 23 | The term is also ambiguous between the composing aspects of writing and the secretarial aspects , such as good handwriting and spelling . |
| 24 | I refer to things such as good accent and command of language , general knowledge on wide-ranging topics such as falconing or newt-mating — attributes none of which my father could have boasted . |
| 25 | Benefits such as good facilities can make it worth travelling farther ; it 's amazing how a well-designed yard can cut down on working time . |
| 26 | To define standards around someone 's job you can : ask job holders to write essays describing their work and its purpose ; create detailed job descriptions ; use rating scales ; identify critical incidents such as good or bad behaviour ; and compare declared aims and results . |
| 27 | However , in addition to providing general incentives for staying , such as good working conditions in terms of pay , benefits and the stimulus of the job , many employers noted the increasing and slightly disturbing necessity to implement specific cash incentives , and even introduce controls written into contracts to prevent the loss of key executives . |
| 28 | They held that there is a limited set of fundamental ethical terms , such as good , bad , right , wrong , ought , duty , such that you can not explain what one of them amounts to except either by appealing to intuition of some simple non-natural property , or relation , to which it refers or by defining it by way of some other ethical term of which this is true . |
| 29 | There is also an /ü/; word-class consisting of items such as good , food , cook , would . |
| 30 | The PSI is determined by whichever of the criteria pollutants is highest on that day , and the media employ associated terms for various PSI levels such as good ( PSI of 0–50 ) , moderate ( 50–100 ) , unhealthy ( 100–200 ) , very unhealthy ( 200–300 ) , and hazardous ( exceeding 300 ) . |