Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The 24-valve straight six M50 unit is a simply gorgeous thing to see , with throttle response sharp enough to draw blood , urge aplenty for safe fourth-gear overtaking , a cultured yet appealingly guttural engine note and the kind of smoothness that makes you question the worth of even a good V12 . |
| 2 | I mean do you manage to keep s sort of quite a good diet ? |
| 3 | J : Sounds like quite a good song but the production 's weird . |
| 4 | He had got a Burmese staff together with quite a good Anglo-Burman as editor of a daily paper in English called The Liberator with a daily circulation of about five thousand . |
| 5 | Them drama people came up with quite a good id couple of good ideas . |
| 6 | Before long a good deal of the poetry that women had written would seem decidedly out of date . |
| 7 | The ferry crosses to Kyleakin and from here a good modern road heads west , replacing a narrow and rough one that tested the car springs of the early visitors to the Cuillin . |
| 8 | But you are in quite a good position now . |
| 9 | From there a good road leads to Rapperswil and the northern shore of the Zurichsee . |
| 10 | Erm a a you 're in for quite a good day . |
| 11 | The professorship in question was seen by the politicians as nothing more than a means of keeping the Laird of Cringletie happy ; it was , as Gorthie put it , ‘ a very good way to answer the Laird 's own expectations till once a good occasion offer ’ . |
| 12 | 1 ( a ) Possession is at once a good , old-fashioned Victorian yarn and a post-modernist parody of the same . |
| 13 | Novices who had been in the London Road End for at least a good part of one season displayed quite a detailed acquisition of social knowledge which was appropriate to correct conduct in the Rowdies . |
| 14 | This is something that you may feel a need to be sure of , and it is quite possible to devise tests which will give at least a good indication of the likely impact of the ad in these terms . |
| 15 | But being steeped , like them , in the philosophy that if one did a job at all one might as well do it splendidly — or at least a good deal better than the Braithwaites — he had built a very decent stone school with a walled yard and a tiny house attached for the use of the teacher , where anyone who paid him rent for his mill-cottages or any of his other employees who resided elsewhere might send their children — to suit the convenience of the teacher — free of charge . |
| 16 | Pushing its head out of the way , I thrust the flambeau into its stall , to see if there might be kerosene or paraffin stored there , or at least a good stack of hay . |
| 17 | Candidates should have at least a good Second Class Honours degree ( or the equivalent ) . |
| 18 | The programme of study is intended to provide an intensive grounding in aspects of the History of Islamic Art for candidates with at least a good Second Class Honours degree ( or the equivalent ) in an appropriate subject . |
| 19 | The material from the enrolled customs accounts provides , if not entirely reliable evidence , at least a good indication of changes in England 's exports . |
| 20 | With their characteristic and pervasive atmosphere of sexuality and sensuality and their erotic tales presented or disguised within verbal play , it is hardly surprising that many have considered " pornography " to be an appropriate term to describe at least a good part of what is found in these fabliaux . |