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

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1 ‘ But the old signorina has a very good eye for a horse , ’ said Leon , as though there might be a connection between judging horse flesh and marrying .
2 David had a very good game at Leeds , apart from not applying the golden rule of playing until the ref blows his whistle .
3 ‘ Children 's books had a very good time , with exceptionally good sales of hardbacks .
4 Everything is going right and the act have a very good chance of success .
5 By chance , the cloud arrived in the middle of a series of measurements of the ‘ extinction ’ of Sun and star light caused by the atmosphere , and as a result the Lowell team has a very good record of day-to-day variations in the transparency of the atmosphere .
6 Deborah , in Chapter 2 , talks about the celebration that she and her family had when she started hers ; Deborah has a very good self-image and no particular hang-ups about her body .
7 ‘ This group had a very good team spirit .
8 If he comes through it well , Weir has a very good chance of going to New Zealand as a versatile forward who , in that company , could find himself pulling on the No6 jersey .
9 We also leaned that Christian , the husband , was a cake-maker , and that Greenland had a very good cake shop .
10 ‘ I was spending money creatively ; I made a contribution to the family restaurant market , which is still in place , and which enabled people to have a very good value meal in enjoyable surroundings , for less money .
11 Foreign visitors will expect the receptionist to have a very good knowledge of the country in general .
12 She had one advantage over him ; he had only a general idea of which shops would interest Garry and his ‘ Mrs Smith ’ , but Claudia knew Dana would make straight for the most exclusive dress shops , and luckily Claudia had a very good idea which one would be at the top of her list .
13 The reasoning for this is that ‘ other people have a very good brand name in Ethernet — we do n't ’ , and that the Ethernet marketplace has become too commodity-like .
14 North-East refs have a very good reputation , and give a lot of help to people coming through maybe that 's why some have gone right to the top .
15 His involvement with Cairngorm Rope coincided with Dave Wotherspoon having a very good idea indeed .
16 Grobbelaar admitted on his return : ‘ I hear the young man had a very good game so I do n't think there should be any change .
17 Yeah Dorigo had a very good game and Macca had a brilliant game for Scotland .
18 The teachers have a very good relationship with the kids , you know .
19 Like the Arbour mothers , the Barkerend mothers have a very good record with the hospitals for having learned the language of pregnancy and birth .
20 Power boat racing has a very good safety record .
21 This date of April I can understand the Minister er the Minister of Transport is concerned , but unless something is done pretty quickly there 'll be a lot of people in Leeds who will be worrying about what 's going to happen on er around the station because there is this small group of people no not always from the town concerned or the city concerned , who behave in this abysmal way and British Transport Police have a very good record at the stations and on the trains as they can move from one part of the country to another .
22 The Army grapevine had n't lost its bloom in the early heatwave : Apgood had a very good rundown on Maxim 's background .
23 International Operations had a very good year , and the recently announced re-start of Hibernia is indeed welcome news .
24 Horses have a very good memory , and an intelligent horse may learn something from a single incident .
25 Although horses have a very good memory , they have a poor ability to reason .
26 The FC at present have a very good policy of allowing access and , indeed , encouraging the use of the forests for recreational purposes .
27 Astley House has a very good working relationship with parents , children and young adults .
28 MY SON has a very good memory for songs and snatches gathered in passing from radio and television , and can reconstitute these with sometimes startling accuracy .
29 Leslie had a very good lot of men in his section , some of them had been with us for a long time .
30 Ian Smith had a very good season for Scotland in 1992 and no one can ever take that away from him .
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