Example sentences of "has good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The butcher has better things to do than make journey upon journey , until we are ready for him . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ She has better things to do , as well . ’ |
| 3 | The government of the day will often let it be known to one of its aspiring party members that it would greatly welcome his ballot victory to promote a particular piece of legislation which it , the Government , does not wish to devote its own time to , either because of its controversial nature or simply because it has better things to do . |
| 4 | Time itself is finite — a government will not devote it to passing less desirable and more controversial laws when it has better things to do with its time . |
| 5 | Surely it has better things to do than worry about such matters , and Professional Conduct Committees and indeed , the Joint Monitoring Unit , should be concentrating on cases of misbehaviour or improper conduct by its members . |
| 6 | He seems to me to be swimming in dangerous waters here , but then Mr Evans-Pritchard probably knows that Rigoberta Menchu has better things to do with her prize money than spend it on litigation . |
| 7 | A world transfixed by the horror in the Balkans is entitled to feel it has better things to worry about than what is not happening in the Middle East . |
| 8 | ‘ Pool has better things to think about ! ’ |
| 9 | Oh , Milord must n't lose one precious minute of his time or attention when he has better things to do . |
| 10 | He has better things to do than hang around the Tower answering idle questions whilst good men are killed and the murderer walks scot free . ’ |
| 11 | But , in support of the maternal depletion syndrome , perhaps contrary to popular belief , it appears from these data that a baby has better chances of being born alive to a woman in the 40–44 years age group if it is the first than the sixth or a higher order . |
| 12 | The Job Training Scheme has been replaced by Employment Training which has better provision for married women . |
| 13 | But the irony is that a human being , with all his potential capacity for understanding , is actually so cut off from his fellow humans that a plant sometimes has better perceptions at the subtle level than he has ! |
| 14 | Instead of glass rovings , the carbon tows are mounted on reels at the start of the process , and these are drawn through vinylester resin which has better wetting characteristics for the carbon . |
| 15 | S. jasminoides ( Less hardy , but has better flowers , especially the white form ‘ Album ’ ) |
| 16 | ‘ It has better quality people , its productivity has never been so great and yet it is still somewhat traditional in format and operation . |
| 17 | It handles better , grips better and has better brakes . |
| 18 | Here is one post-feminist who has better ways of occupying her time . |
| 19 | Traditional building materials such as mud will have a role to play only when the national objective is to ensure that everyone has better housing now . |
| 20 | Miller had told Richardson that he hoped to correspond with Dr Alston , King 's Professor of Botany in Edinburgh … ‘ a man of learning and has good skill in distinguishing plants and a great share of modesty ’ . |
| 21 | It has good insulating qualities , and is used in furnishing fabrics mixed with other fibres . |
| 22 | Bd3 , and , after Black weakens his position with 17 … f5 , has good compensation with 18 . |
| 23 | SANDRA BERNHARD IS TALL , slim , works out a lot , has good cheekbones and stunning dark eyes and skin . |
| 24 | It has good things about Gore , about Hoskyns , about Temple . |
| 25 | Clifford Chance — a legal undertaker to the Thatcher boom — has good litigation and insolvency departments . |
| 26 | What is apparent is that this manual is aimed at the non-specialist technician , possibly an embalmer , who has good knowledge of some medical procedures . |
| 27 | In London , the firm , created for London 's 1986 Big Bang by the merger of a stockbroker and stockjobber , has a formidable team of bond and equity salesmen ; it also has good contacts with company finance-directors and treasurers . |
| 28 | Basham has good contacts and , because of his Fleet Street connections , thinks he has influence . |
| 29 | The Firm has good contacts at both organisations . |
| 30 | If your client has good character , fine , if he 's got bad character . |