Example sentences of "very good [noun sg] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were correct 92 times out of Ill , indicating very good awareness of the amount of time elapsed . |
| 2 | Very good part of the investigation . |
| 3 | Foreign visitors will expect the receptionist to have a very good knowledge of the country in general . |
| 4 | It is perhaps a discouraging thing to say , but learners of English who are not able to talk regularly with native speakers of English , or who are not able at least to listen regularly to colloquial English , are not likely to learn English intonation , though they may learn very good pronunciation of the segments and use stress correctly . |
| 5 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ Andy Goodway has been a very good servant of the club . |
| 6 | It is actually a very good performance of the piece , so it is possible to conclude that Ravel was present only in an advisory capacity , if at all . |
| 7 | The class teacher will be assessing pupils ' achievement across a range of subjects , and will have a very good idea of the child 's progress and development . |
| 8 | For those animals which have backbones , the rate of their heartbeats is a very good indication of the rate at which they live their lives . |
| 9 | The numbers on the tickets illustrated gives a very good indication of the volume of traffic between the several stations . |
| 10 | They did n't take very good care of the library . |
| 11 | Is that not a very good illustration of the problems to which misuse of the guillotine to ram legislation through the House and the country can lead ? |
| 12 | Now actually this is a very very good definition of the word quality . |
| 13 | Now there 's a very good example of the way in which a domestic concern has an impact in terms of international events because obviously it put a strain on Anglo-U S relations . |
| 14 | A very good example of the craft is seen in the almost human mannequins used in the ‘ Royal ’ exhibition at Windsor . |
| 15 | This is a very good example of the validity problem referred to on p. 15 ( for a fuller account see Harris 1984 ) . |
| 16 | However , the kind of enquiry which Breen conducts here , the interpretation and evaluation of ideas in reference to pedagogic issues , is a very good example of the process of appraisal that I am proposing . |
| 17 | Incidentally , a first grading would be awarded to a typical dog of good conformation , with only minor faults , a very good representative of the breed . |
| 18 | Erm the point about the regional census study was that it did a reasonably good job of analyzing the present situation , but not a very good job of the projections . |
| 19 | Remember John and I went on a , a visit down to see their hut and to be honest , they were making a very good job of the hut , what they come in for , is er , a second bite , really , erm , they 've got to , to floor the roof which we er , thought was quite interesting . |
| 20 | It was Bill Fraser 's party , who had an amazing tale to tell of sheer endurance and the will to survive , in the very best tradition of the SAS . |
| 21 | And this how li , this is how God spreads the gospel , this is how he spreads his message through his people through using his pe , using in the very best sense of the word , he does n't make use of us he involves us in his work , and so , he saves us , he satisfies us and then he sends us forth , and he does that with this woman . |
| 22 | The very best news of the weekend was that Gloucester have saved themselves from relegation … it 'll be first division rugby at Kingsholm again next season thanks to a stirring 22 — 9 win at Bristol |
| 23 | Freddie Head , rider of Pistol Packer , opined that ‘ Mill Reef was the best horse I 've ever seen ’ , and the French press compared him with the horse whose stunning victory in the Arc six years earlier had marked him out as the very best horse of the era : ‘ Comme Sea Bird II — mais plus vite ’ , raved Paris-Turf He was indeed plus vite , for his Arc time of 2 minutes 28.3 seconds set a new course record . |
| 24 | In a sense , there 's nothing wrong with that , since some of the very best verse of the period ( from Shakespeare to Donne to Marvell ) falls into this category . |