Example sentences of "a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a better driver than he was when he left us , us in eighty-eight , because he 's two years , has two years more experience and in Formula one racing , experience , if you are a quick driver , experience is fundamentally important to winning . |
| 2 | For a wealth of ideas , or just beautiful fish without silly price-tags , it would be hard to find a better destination . |
| 3 | McCoist 's effort put a better complexion on the night for Scotland though without enabling anyone to go overboard about their prospects in World Cup qualifying Group I. |
| 4 | Now , when peace seemed restored the spider wanted to seek a better hiding place . |
| 5 | Genesis 1:2 , 5 , ‘ the Spirit of God was moving over the face of the waters ’ may indicate a creative function for the Spirit , but may equally describe the chaos referred to in the earlier part of that verse , ‘ the earth was without form and void , and darkness was upon the face of the water ’ : and ‘ a ruach adonai , a mighty hurricane from God , was moving over the expanse of the unruly waters ’ may be a better translation . |
| 6 | The Neon also gets full-width wheel trims , passenger door mirror and opening rear quarterlights , while inside there 's velour trim and a better stereo . |
| 7 | A better memorial to him is the statue of Cardinal Wolsey over the gate to Christ Church College , Oxford , which he caused to be erected and underneath which he is named in a Latin inscription . |
| 8 | A hundred years ago , we could have journeyed the length and breadth of Britain to hear the booming of the bittern , but in vain ; for the bittern , once common , and ‘ esteemed a better dish than heron ’ , had become extinct . |
| 9 | I asked her if she had any medication that would make me a better surfer . |
| 10 | There is nothing that will make you a better surfer . ’ |
| 11 | I would get a better , I 'm not saying I 'd get a better shine than that . |
| 12 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 13 | John admits they are in a better position than most tenants , for they have their own house to move in to and are not dependent on the pub 's accommodation . |
| 14 | ‘ You 'll never be in a better position than you are now , ’ Justin Ostro , union vice president , told a rally of 30,000 machinists earlier this week in Seattle , Washington , the site of Boeing 's headquarters and main production facility . |
| 15 | IMAGINE the reaction if , say , Ladbroke came to its shareholders and said : ‘ The Government have decreed that we will have to rebid for our betting licence in 1992 , and to put ourselves in a better position to win it we are taking on borrowings equal to our equity and giving our managers around 15 per cent of the company . ’ |
| 16 | He felt he would be in ‘ a better position to settle on the appropriate form of punishment ’ if he knew the victim 's feelings . |
| 17 | In football , rugby , or cricket the ability to stop the frame at the crucial moment or play-back a sequence , which has come recently with the development of video , has actually placed the viewer and the commentator in a better position to make a decision than the unfortunate referee or umpire . |
| 18 | Independent agencies are in a better position to offer personal service than are those tied to big chains , believes managing director Daphne Armstrong . |
| 19 | Such laws are partly paternalistic , based on the argument that the State is in a better position to assess the risks of injury , and partly economic , in the sense that conformity with the law would save millions of pounds in medical expenses ( as well as much grief for citizens ) . |
| 20 | They collided , Hughes sensed McClair was in a better position to punish the error , but Laws recovered . |
| 21 | We are then in a better position to take steps to see that it is achieved . |
| 22 | He is in a better position than others to initiate confrontation and he has some resources at his disposal . |
| 23 | The authority is in a better position to achieve ( if its legitimacy is acknowledged ) what the individual has reason to but is in no position to achieve . |
| 24 | Fig 54 Flipping the rig into a better position . |
| 25 | The simple truth is , though , that you will never be in a better position to arrange suitable contract safeguards than during the period when a company is anxious to secure your services . |
| 26 | the head was in a better position than the LEA to make decisions about the school ; |
| 27 | This means you can be quite certain about total success , relative success and failure and , therefore , be in a better position to learn from experience . |
| 28 | This is usually countered by arguing that there is a basic selection of knowledge and skills that a nurse must have to ensure competence , and teachers and curriculum planners are in a better position than students to know what these are . |
| 29 | I only ask this question because devotees of this composer have probably never been in a better position to acquire a good cross-section of his output on disc . |
| 30 | And as he had said , no-one was in a better position to do a photo story like that than she was . |