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

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1 Applicants should possess or expect to obtain shortly a good Honours Degree in Mathematics .
2 David Penney cracked home a good un …
3 Two other traits Charles may have owed to the influence of his father Louis the Pious , though he pursued both a good deal further than Louis .
4 MCM provide quite a good assembly instruction leaflet with photographs depicting the 48 stages of the assembly procedure .
5 Partly for tourist reasons but partly because it does in fact provide quite a good service .
6 ‘ Ian looks quite a good keeper all-round .
7 So I think Tollerton stands quite a good chance of getting that one through .
8 Should the discussion stray just once from generic to specific advice , however casually ( ‘ the Borsetshire Union has quite a good deal on offer at the moment ’ ) , investment business has been carried out .
9 I 'm not really sure how I became friends with the boy , but he also has quite a good personality , + I can have a good laugh with him .
10 Please do not send the artefacts or coins , but provide either a good quality drawings or photographs of front and reverse , and include details of dimensions , material of manufacture and any other helpful information .
11 Well aware that she was in a public place , she tried to modify her voice ; only then Willis did n't always hear , and she had to try again a good deal louder .
12 I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’
13 It was nice to fill up with Perrier till your bladder was bursting , then go in the gents and let forth a good stream .
14 Well when I worked at , when I started off in the I quite liked my job in there , you made your own pay , and I liked , it was a starching job , I 'd quite a good job in there .
15 They had done quite a good job , Holly could see that , in containing the fire .
16 She 's done quite a good job .
17 It was early still , but , while she had quite enjoyed his company and having someone else to converse with in her own language , an early night seemed quite a good idea .
18 ‘ I think I 'd just made quite a good speech but I thought they were joking , ’ he says .
19 Not only are victims , particularly of personal theft or burglary , usually reluctant to become entangled with the bureaucratic nightmare that can follow the reporting of a crime to the police , but it is extremely difficult to convict anyone who possesses either a good lawyer or ‘ influence ’ .
20 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 .
21 ‘ Well , my husband says I 've got rather a good voice , ’ she responded .
22 Vogel was actually pulling together a good deal of social science research and his approach was not too dissimilar from many others , except in its more explicitly laudatory style .
23 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 .
24 Insistence on this in the early stages of use helps to make it become simply a good habit .
25 First , a return to viewing the landscape in totality , rather than the sum of its component parts , and second , a much greater emphasis on the preferences of the general public , rather than professional people , even though some studies have shown quite a good correlation between the two ( Preece , 1980 ) .
26 So you 've got quite a good relationship
27 From the sound of them and from the way they are used , you have probably got quite a good idea of what you think they mean .
28 on the road er They 've got quite a good selection now .
29 for the Water Board so he 's got quite a good job you know , but erm , I 'm , we could n't afford to put the other through the apprentice because I mean you had n't got the money had you then
30 We 've actually got quite a good er cow stock ourselves .
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