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

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1 ‘ I want to have a good look round Mr Livesey 's rooms .
2 I want to have a good talk with Mr Makepeace and Mr Farraday … ’
3 The field needs to have a good supply of water .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 If the duty is unexcludable Elvis would appear to have a good chance of success .
8 Therefore XY Ltd would appear to have a good title to the goods one way or another .
9 The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts .
10 I 'd like to have a good head on me .
11 We 've got to have a good system of monitoring with a liason committee .
12 Oh yes yeah outside yes and old programmes they sell at away matches , badges , season tickets as you might understand , but they , they are going to have a good day in April on the centenary day because they have it getting all the old players Tony says he , he 's been invited to attend as well and Gilbert I believe will be going and erm
13 I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country .
14 ‘ I like to have a good conversation with a boy . ’
15 ‘ I always like to have a good look round the Abbey . ’
16 He notes in passing that RISC has completely taken over the workstation and midrange server markets , is closing in on mainframes and minisupercomputers and is in process of displacing the second-ranking CISC chip , Motorola 's 68k from the high-end embedded market and appears to have a good shot at the emerging personal digital appliance market .
17 Patients attending the cystic fibrosis clinic in Melbourne were found to have a good outlook with respect to employment and social life , and a study at the Brompton Hospital characterising clinical and social features of patients attending its cystic fibrosis clinic found a similarly good outlook .
18 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 .
19 People may buy shares in a target company simply because it has attracted the attentions of a potential offeror which is known to have a good eye for investment opportunities .
20 For he was employed by the LMS railway as a train guard , and guards were compelled to have a good knowledge of first-aid .
21 And the other point made by the consumer adviser is try to have a good look at what you 've chosen before you walk out of the shop .
22 What I mean by that is er try to have a good look at what you 've chosen before you walk out the shop .
23 He was also believed to have a good relationship with Syrian leaders , especially Vice-President Abdel Halim Khaddam .
24 ‘ You got to have a good pair of legs and a good pair of lungs to go up there .
25 Monitor theory and reinforcement theory would seem to have a good deal in common .
26 It would n't do just to have straight furrows : a good ploughman also had to have a good top to the stetch — the furrows lying all flat and even .
27 If you were asked which club it was , you just had to have a good reason for choosing it .
28 Recovering drug addict Jamie , 38 , says he is determined to have a good relationship with his son and break the ‘ bad luck ’ that has cursed the family for years .
29 The girl had been left without a chaperon and was determined to have a good time with some boys .
30 Likewise , I shall no longer go around promising to have a good talk with the kids .
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