Example sentences of "[noun] a good [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 There are many more , far too numerous to mention here , but The Body Shop stock a good selection of aromatherapy oils as do most health food sores .
2 He justifies this implicit raising of the required standard partly in order to encourage pupils to continue caring about geography lessons ( as opposed to reading the newspapers ) and partly because it would be unfair to give pupils taking geography a better chance of reaching university than pupils taking , say , physics under the war-time difficulties caused by shortage of laboratories and physics teachers .
3 As a result a good model of the system may be obtained from a much smaller corpus of data .
4 Now he 's hoping he gives his new club a good return on their three hundred thousand pound investment .
5 Care management is at an early stage of development in Britain but , if the experience in the United States is anything to go on , we can be optimistic that the system will promote for the recipient a better coordination of services and a better quality of community care .
6 The epidemic took hold during the 1970s , when high rates of income tax and an attempt by successive governments to control pay made the company-owned car a good way of rewarding people surreptitiously .
7 The planners had in fact already taken out of the hands of the industry a good deal of the coordinating responsibility for making up the plant backlog , recognising electricity supply as a crucial sector in their overall economic planning and taking steps to intervene directly where they were dissatisfied with the progress made by the Pre-vesting electricity undertakings .
8 In recent months a good deal of concern has been expressed about students no longer having access to benefits over the summer vacation .
9 If you find sheer weight a good judge of a products quality you 'll be pleased by this one !
10 Making a stock of suitable pictures and then sending them in at a steady trickle to the news editor throughout the year gives your children 's work a good chance of being chosen .
11 In other words , by staying away he gives his offspring a better chance of survival .
12 It is safer to cook the stuffing separately from the turkey to give the turkey a better chance of cooking right through .
13 I notice from the old schedules that you programmed Vaughan Williams 's Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis a good deal at that time .
14 Why is the system of farming on the lowlands of Scotland a good example of intensive mixed commercial farming ?
15 To give the engineers a better appreciation of this aspect I encouraged them to learn to fly up to private pilot standard and I am happy to say this was approached by many of them with considerable enthusiasm .
16 And with your support , we can help give even more of these youngsters a better start in life .
17 Parents or relatives often make donations to their old public school or college as some repayment for what it has done for them , or in the hope that it may give their child a better chance of entry !
18 The key to a healthy , nourishing diet for children is variety — aim to give your child a good range of foods over the course of a week or so and you can be pretty certain she 'll get the nutrients she needs .
19 In the opening minute of the second half a good pass from Johnny Gregg to Ritchie Moffett inside the visiting circle opened the score for Newry .
20 This gives the technicians a better idea of your voice and relaxes you .
21 Robert Burrows , now promoted to the rank of major , was ill the Red Shield , acting as a welfare officer with the troops , and away from home a good deal of the time .
22 Most politicians , and probably most of the general public , whatever their political party , regard it as in principle a sensible innovation , certainly one that will give parents a better notion of what they ought to expect , in whatever part of the country their children may go to school .
23 In some circumstances a better curve for countering an apparent concavity of form can be a very flat cycloid , like a five centred arch .
24 The cathedral is all of stone , quite small , but despite restoration a good example of Anglicised Norwegian Romanesque building and the finest in Norway .
25 Mayer is a Yale-trained lawyer , his background is equally in racing and business , he knows the value of money and how to extract it from sponsors and also was among the first to appreciate , in the changing nature of the sport that the big bucks and the big battalions give any team a better chance of achieving championship results .
26 The numbers attending the workshop were small but the workshop covered in its membership a good cross-section of the community , from people with trade union experience to others working on housing , disability and community economic development .
27 This will provide , per day : 1,000–1,500 calories per day , depending on your needs 65 or more grams of protein 25 or more grams of fibre a good balance of vitamins and minerals .
28 Under the old farming of pre-machine days a good test of a man 's farming skill was to observe whether his land was clean or foul with weeds .
29 This will give your teacher a better view of your own understanding of those ideas .
30 In real life , Wilf devotes his time to dreaming up new ideas that could help make this planet a better place to be .
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