Example sentences of "[noun] has [vb pp] 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 | 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 . |
| 13 | Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Julian has lost a good deal of weight . |
| 18 | He can retake the goods not only from B , the original tortfeasor , but even from a third person subject to the apparent exceptions which arise where that third person has acquired a good title even against A. Such exceptions are only apparent because A , having lost his right to the property , has got nothing which he can retake . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 21 | Irrespective of the final battle , Mr Ashdown has had a good war . |
| 22 | According to Peter Sommer , a computer forensics expert , the commission has done a good job in proposing new legislation which is workable and fits well with other parts of the law . |
| 23 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 24 | The ES has earned a good reputation in responding to new opportunities . |
| 25 | The British government 's approval of cable networks to distribute information and entertainment on a national or regional scale has created a good deal of commercial excitement . |
| 26 | Stephenson said that ‘ the government has done a good job in policy development , without burdening business but with sufficient controls ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ I am delighted that Jarvis 's Frayn has had a good reaction , as I think it is some of my best work . ’ |
| 28 | To date , feminism has contributed a good deal of fuel to both sides of this dialectic , because the case of women is a peculiar one , and introduces even more complications into an already troublesome argument . |
| 29 | In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected . |
| 30 | As my comrade from Scotland says John Prescott has done a good job here , but I have to say it 's not up against very much . |