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 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 8 | We 've got to have a good system of monitoring with a liason committee . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For he was employed by the LMS railway as a train guard , and guards were compelled to have a good knowledge of first-aid . |
| 13 | ‘ You got to have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs to go up there . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this . |
| 20 | No birds about at the moment but they 've had a good feed of chicken , but |
| 21 | For a songwriter/artist who the music publisher believes has a good chance of success , it is quite usual for there to be a royalty split of 70:30 in favour of the writer . |
| 22 | We have had a good couple of months and we are fairly positive about the outlook for the remainder of the year . ’ |
| 23 | I think the main ingredient for success is that you have to have a good sense of timing . |
| 24 | To do this you have to have a good understanding of the materials . |