Example sentences of "[noun] have [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There could have been no better man for the job and Graveney , whose equable temperament has survived a good deal of adversity in recent years , managed to keep everyone content during some trying early days . |
| 2 | This question of the benefit to be achieved from library activities has generated a good deal of literature , none of it very conclusive . |
| 3 | She thinks the Board has done a good job and what would it be replaced with ? |
| 4 | So far the Finance Ministry has done a good job by letting off steam in a controlled and orderly way , but it is hard to stop the process of deflation once it has gained momentum . |
| 5 | In the past this Association has had a good relationship with the DLO in Derry . |
| 6 | A conference on AIDS has attracted a good response from businessmen in the Alton area . |
| 7 | The practical question which this paper also addresses is ‘ how can one tell when and whether a lawyer has done a good job ? ’ . |
| 8 | Finally , that a poet has written a good poem does not mean he or she is always capable of another , and to read Duck 's career as an arrested development may be sentimental . |
| 9 | Anyone who bought before the 1988 boom has seen a good return on their investment . |
| 10 | " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said . |
| 11 | ‘ Ethnic ’ Scottish rock has had a good decade , something Adamson has mixed feelings about . |
| 12 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 13 | For various reasons the specific item search , into which the designers had put a good deal of effort , was less successful . |
| 14 | Well in the war five pounds a week was extraordinary money , cos they used to say a fella had got a good job if he was getting five pounds a week in those days , so that when I started work first I , I was getting fifteen shillings a week , so you can understand that seventy five pence today , at fourteen . |
| 15 | Andre Moga , the president of Beglès and one of the so-called ‘ barons ’ of French rugby , made the following comment : ‘ If Rodez had had a good president at the time this would not have reached court ’ . |
| 16 | He threw the hoe to the ground , hoped that at least the pig had had a good meal , and want back inside his church . |
| 17 | ‘ Ken 's got a good sense of humour . |
| 18 | So everyone working on the door at Ronnie 's had a good laugh at us while Strummer was hustling to get us in . |
| 19 | Since then the assumptions underpinning , and the meanings attributed to , census data have changed a good deal . |
| 20 | They reckon Lancastrians have got a good pint of Boddys . |
| 21 | Fashanu , ignored since being capped twice by Bobby Robson three years ago , said : ‘ Alan has had a good start but that does n't put him in the class of Ian . |
| 22 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 23 | I could talk to anybody in fluent French , and Marius had managed a good grasp of the language . |
| 24 | Working partnerships forged at home have provided a good springboard for launching several initiatives with partners abroad . |
| 25 | As he put it : ‘ The planners and the road engineers have had a good bashing , but they have learnt their lesson . |
| 26 | St Aubyn 's had a good reputation when my father decided to send us there . |
| 27 | Liberal Democrat Candidate Suzanne Fletcher has received a good luck card from Essex , from a direct descendant of the area 's Liberal MP between 1918 and 1920 . |
| 28 | Finally , the clinical teacher has to maintain a good relationship with patients and relatives . |
| 29 | Although he is cautious about predicting how rapidly or how strongly profits will grow in 1993 , he believes the UK business has made a good start to the year , with revenues from both consulting and recruitment ahead of budget . |
| 30 | The presence of Asian women advice workers has attracted a good response from the Asian community and the informality is attracting more family and personal enquiries of the sort that people may have felt uncomfortable about bringing previously . |