Example sentences of "very good [noun sg] of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of them have a very good knowledge of English , even down to the most obscure idiom , but they are not always fluent in expressing their ideas . |
| 2 | Everything is going right and the act have a very good chance of success . |
| 3 | And in terms of unity there is n't a very good chance of unity with British feminists right now in this country because whenever we start discussing our issues , out comes the racism , out comes the attempts to monopolise our struggle . |
| 4 | I know it would be premature , but at twenty-eight weeks there 's a very good chance of survival , and with every day of your pregnancy that passes , that chance improves . ’ |
| 5 | And certainly if they come for interview , if they apply to the university , they get a very good chance of entrance . |
| 6 | " The greens as yet are slow but in two years ' time they will be difficult but a very good test of touch and eye . |
| 7 | Death rates seem not to be a very good indicator of disease rates either . |
| 8 | ‘ They must have a very good system of communication , do n't you think ? ’ |
| 9 | They were not in a very good state of conservation , having been drastically overcleaned in previous restoration campaigns sponsored by the Carthusian monks . |
| 10 | It is felt by the Senior Management Team that the number of pupils achieving a very good standard of work which is reflected in high examination results could , in fact , be greater if the department were prepared to expect more of their pupils . |
| 11 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 12 | The very good performance of division reported in some cases ( Lum , Yuen and Dodd , Severance and Duhne ) , and relatively poor performance in others ( Kaimann ) , is likely to have been the result of few or many clashes of this kind . |
| 13 | We do not have a very good sense of smell , and as a result we are often tactless when handling animals . |
| 14 | Behind us lay the snow-streaked slopes of Mount Shasta , one of the seven sacred mountains of the world ; before us lay the Sisson Callaghan Trail , an old Indian trade route ( today used by old Indians with a very good sense of direction ) . |
| 15 | They had a very good sense of humour and could tell long sophisticated stories in what is called the spaccato , the real dialect of Parma . |
| 16 | Does n't have a very good sense of humour . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , you 're not a very good judge of character , though , are you , Lauren ? ’ |
| 18 | He is also a very good judge of character as he describes Estella as |
| 19 | Aluminium , pretty important , also a very good conductor of electricity . |
| 20 | Er the only thing that I have not handed you is the Labour resolution which er twice mentions demands now although I 'm supporting this strong report here , I think it 's a mistake to demand things , it is , it does n't put people in a very good frame of mind to coax them but and I would ask the er Miss who I think we 're going to vote for this , whether she would consider changing to request , because I think we going to the situation where we make it known to the Department of Transport that we 're a string of such like , we do n't to upset them any more , I think that we requested that we answer is we would actually get a result in one . |
| 21 | The liver to do that work has to have a very very good supply of oxygen . |
| 22 | And of course she will be mixing with a very good class of pupil . ’ |
| 23 | He was a very good teacher of theology , but it was not long before we discovered that he had a dreadful fear that the depression that was sweeping Europe , as well as this country , was becoming the cause of another even worse war . |
| 24 | This pasture land then is a very good source of food for grazing livestock , as well as the crops that will follow . |
| 25 | If you wish to follow the same route successfully you will need a reference of some sort and the Ponzo C tutor is a very good source of information . |
| 26 | They carry a very good source of protein |
| 27 | You had one very good piece of news , which was ‘ During the past year the Environmental Health Department has run fifteen courses for food handlers , and one hundred and eighty-seven people have passed the examination . ’ |
| 28 | a very good piece of negotiation on your part erm that er there must be a reason why industry 's prepared to a lost leader . |
| 29 | This is n't a very good piece of paper . |
| 30 | Coach Romantsev said : ‘ We are looking forward to what we think will be a very good game of football . |