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

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1 The field needs to have a good supply of water .
2 It will offer up to £100,000 in support to Fife companies with ideas that are considered to have a good chance of success but lack resources needed to develop their products .
3 The Committee suggested that the Lord Chancellor should appoint chairmen and clearly favoured an increase in the use of lawyer chairmen principally because lawyers were considered to have a good grasp of principles of procedural fairness .
4 Local firms will need to have a good grasp of the challenges or threats that 1992 will bring , to have a good feel for which sectors and industries locally will be most affected when the barriers come down .
5 And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh .
6 If the duty is unexcludable Elvis would appear to have a good chance of success .
7 My only memory of those auditions was that everyone seemed to have a better idea of why they were perfect for each particular part than I did !
8 The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts .
9 We 've got to have a good system of monitoring with a liason committee .
10 ‘ They seem to have a better idea of the indie ethic in America , ’ muses Jim .
11 As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives .
12 and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC .
13 Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening .
14 No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy .
15 If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth .
16 This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff .
17 Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ?
18 She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night .
19 ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it .
20 The Conservatives believe that the government 's role is to ensure that we continue to have a good foundation of basic and strategic science on which industry can draw , to encourage a good supply of up-to-date and creative scientists , and to encourage the right climate for successful innovation .
21 For he was employed by the LMS railway as a train guard , and guards were compelled to have a good knowledge of first-aid .
22 ‘ You got to have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs to go up there .
23 In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more .
24 In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it .
25 That 's the team of management that I , together with one or two others , built up from scratch at the beginning of the Liberal Democrats , and we now in Stockport have a highly successful erm m As I say , tier of management for training , for campaigning , for policy development in Stockport , and as you probably know we do have a good record of winning local council seats .
26 The whole operation had taken a few seconds only , a little huddle of activity in all of which the discreet entry of Liz Spalding to the house had had a good chance of going unnoticed by any distant , watching eyes .
27 The objectives of Rolls Royce had been met — a group of highly intelligent , well-motivated students had had a good experience of the engineering industry , and their interest in an engineering career had , by their own account , been greatly increased as a result .
28 He had had a good deal of experience of the deliberate malice of political adversaries , who felt for him a genuine fear that was replaced by contempt only for his lesser colleagues .
29 Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this .
30 No birds about at the moment but they 've had a good feed of chicken , but
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