Example sentences of "good [noun sg] of [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he spent a good part of each year in England , he ruled in the personal manner of his father and great-uncle . |
| 2 | Moreover , this result may simply be a reflection of the generality and ’ everydayness ’ of Estate Agents ' text : just as the LOB gave good coverage of this domain , the Banking corpus also contains language structures that are representative of estate agent 's text . |
| 3 | Previously Advanced Pick has sat aloof , on top of Unix , but now the code has been designed to take better advantage of some Unix facilities , and different versions will be needed for different processors . |
| 4 | ‘ And also that 's a very good take of that song , one hell of a rendition , so it would be almost impossible to sound bad . |
| 5 | If the teacher is unhappy about the episode , or if the designer feels that it lay outside the realm of desirable behaviour , better protection of some sort is needed . |
| 6 | Erm , I seem to remember that when we met earlier in the year and you were looking forward to , to , to this year as a whole , I think you er , indicated that it was going to be a good year and I think you also suggested , if I remember right , that you thought the better part of that improvement would be seen in the second half rather than the first . |
| 7 | A good exponent of this approach is Renford Bambrough . |
| 8 | I suppose we saw a good deal of each other , over the ensuing months . |
| 9 | Today he has shed a good deal of that ideology — his speech yesterday was social democratic through and through — but he remains devoid of the work experience relevant to his next task which is to convince the country that he , and Labour , are qualified to form the next government . |
| 10 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 11 | True , he owned a good deal of this land and could stop any building on his own acres . |
| 12 | A good deal of this position can be attributed to discrimination on the part of employers . |
| 13 | A good deal of this book is about the inequality that exists in British society . |
| 14 | Yet a good deal of this diversification probably happened in the last 70 million years , during the Tertiary . |
| 15 | Now in this respect , of course , twenty-five years is rather a short time in the life of a university , and a good deal of this time has been spent in building up a research base , and now , as you mentioned in your erm remarks a few moments ago , Andrew , we have an enviable research record in a very wide range of disciplines . |
| 16 | A good deal of this security is located in the routines making up practical consciousness — predictability reduces anxiety . |
| 17 | Any good effect of these moves , however , was more than cancelled by publication , without any accompanying statement of Government policy , of the report of the ill-conceived May Committee on that same penultimate day of July . |
| 18 | We did not attempt any better characterisation of this symptom because this may be difficult in patients with incontinence . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | There were no overtones of distress , and none even of weariness , although she was a better judge of these things than most people . |
| 21 | Perhaps all that 's needed to be a good judge of another person is the art of listening , not only with our ears but with our whole attention . |
| 22 | ALL the meals , from which you can choose freely , have been specially devised to contain a good percentage of those foods which supply a significant quantity of dietary fibre . |
| 23 | But change it does , and there is no better barometer of that change than what is censored , by libraries as well as by other institutions . |
| 24 | If we could observe them , it would provide a good test of this picture of a very hot early stage of the universe . |
| 25 | It therefore makes sense to have a good range of such tools in a manufacturer 's catalogue . |
| 26 | What we need now , to have a better grasp of these connections , is a better grasp of the two kinds of statements . |
| 27 | ‘ Come and take a good sniff of this day , ’ he said , pushing open the window . |
| 28 | But it w which will give you a better picture of this graph , but we gon na have to get a chunk on this . |
| 29 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 30 | For a good overview of both positions , see Fries ( 1983 ) , who refers to them as the ‘ separating ’ approach and the ‘ combining ’ approach . |