Example sentences of "good [noun sg] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He poured the coffee , adding a good measure of brandy to each mug . |
| 2 | But , over the last hundred years , acres of ‘ accumulated land ’ have built up and it is now a good trek from station to sea . |
| 3 | The income and property of the Society shall be applied solely towards the promotion of the Object of the Society and no portion thereof shall be paid or transferred directly or indirectly to the members of the Society , provided that nothing herein shall prevent the payment in good faith of remuneration to any officer , servant or member of the Society in return for Services actually rendered to the Society and proper rent for any premises let by any member to the Society . |
| 4 | Dawn Roberts , tourism officer , said : ‘ It applies to all businesses throughout the borough , not just those in tourism , but all those who wish to maintain a good level of service to the customer . |
| 5 | There is a good review of approaches to distinctive features in Clark and Yallop ( 1990 ) , chapter 9 and pp.364–8 . |
| 6 | Mecir , whose world ranking has dropped to 26 chiefly as a result of back injuries , ought to add a good deal of craft to the Silk Cut Championships at Wembley next month . |
| 7 | Enabling you to allocate different joystick commands to the three coloured pedals , this nifty little piece of hardware will certainly add a good deal of realism to any driving games you may have in your collection ( except Hard Drivin' , of course , as even a steering wheel and gear shift could n't fuel-inject any realism into that ! ) . |
| 8 | At a post-crisis discussion between Mikoian and a State Department official , Mikoian was ‘ clearly influenced by commitments to Castro to make a strong case on Castro 's behalf ’ and tried to establish the idea of a protocol signed by all three countries ‘ [ attaching ] a good deal of significance to Cuba being one of the signatories ’ . |
| 9 | Husameddin devotes a good deal of space to Molla Fenari 's pilgrimage , making full use of the Arabic sources and adding a certain amount of material of his own . |
| 10 | ‘ And your conclusions are far from worthless , they make a good deal of sense to me . |
| 11 | Self and Ernest Long , the secretary , devoted a good deal of thought to methods of budgetary control which would make decentralisation possible , but the headquarters engineers , still deeply distrustful of anything from Self , had little conception of the financial and management principles of decentralisation . |
| 12 | It takes a good deal of suppleness to be able to get both your elbows onto the ground — you might only get your hands flat on the floor to begin with . |
| 13 | Those who tend to see the eighteenth century as above all " the Age of Wesley " usually bring a good deal of retrospectivity to their view of the rise of Methodism over a period at the end of which Methodists were still not especially numerous in the nation as a whole . |
| 14 | North lent a good deal of encouragement to Thomas Dowling , ‘ the priest for the contras ’ , who was called in by Calero to say Mass in the camps in Honduras ; but Dowling found the contras drifting , rather than committed . |
| 15 | To date , feminism has contributed a good deal of fuel to both sides of this dialectic , because the case of women is a peculiar one , and introduces even more complications into an already troublesome argument . |
| 16 | The Spirit of the Letter pays a good deal of attention to the vellum / scribe / fine penmanship side of the lettering question . |
| 17 | Finally , he devoted a good deal of attention to the problem of the implications of his general historical approach for understanding the character of Christianity itself , particularly in The Absoluteness of Christianity ( 1901 ; E.T . |
| 18 | Briault and West went on to comment that the headteachers in two of their studies gave a good deal of attention to the process through which individual teachers can change themselves . |
| 19 | To an extent , the questionnaire approach can be sterile and impersonal , but questions are only included after a good deal of face to face discussion . |
| 20 | Strictly speaking the former ought to Read MEDIA RELEASE — important , perhaps , if you send a good deal of material to TV and radio . |
| 21 | It was not disputed that teachers ought to be aware of the relation between educational success and failure and the language children being to school , or that some teachers need to give a good deal of time to the study of reading . |
| 22 | ‘ We owe a good deal of thanks to Mr Kennedy for all the effort he put into getting us the medals , ’ said Mr Connor . |
| 23 | Again , the way such headings work out in practice may vary a good deal from course to course . |
| 24 | When you feel ready ( after at least five minutes of lying quietly and breathing normally ) have a good stretch from fingertips to toes before slowly getting up . |
| 25 | At the empirical level , all we can observe is a difference between the acquired equivalence condition ( good generalization from A to B ) and the acquired distinctiveness condition ( poorer generalization from A to C ) . |
| 26 | First , good generalization from A to B can be readily explained in terms of mediation by the associate . |
| 27 | Patients attending the cystic fibrosis clinic in Melbourne were found to have a good outlook with respect to employment and social life , and a study at the Brompton Hospital characterising clinical and social features of patients attending its cystic fibrosis clinic found a similarly good outlook . |
| 28 | Cordelia plays the part of the good child in contrast to her wicked sisters Goneril and Regan . |
| 29 | Yes , we do obviously erm in this particular region erm depend a great deal on the overseas visitor erm but I think Michael also made a very good point in relation to the comradeship which has emerged through the war erm and I think this was erm further identified by some representatives we sent out erm on the part of the local regional boards , in other words London , South East , Southern , East Anglia . |
| 30 | Do make sure that you retain the right to sell soft drinks and refreshments , these are far easier to manage and provide a good ratio of profit to outlay . |