Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [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 She thinks the Board has done a good job and what would it be replaced with ?
3 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 .
4 In the past this Association has had a good relationship with the DLO in Derry .
5 A conference on AIDS has attracted a good response from businessmen in the Alton area .
6 The practical question which this paper also addresses is ‘ how can one tell when and whether a lawyer has done a good job ? ’ .
7 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 .
8 Anyone who bought before the 1988 boom has seen a good return on their investment .
9 " The President has done a good job of putting himself in the position where Arctic drilling is seen as patriotic " , she said .
10 ‘ Ethnic ’ Scottish rock has had a good decade , something Adamson has mixed feelings about .
11 Other polls have been published in the newspapers , however , and the issue has gained a good deal of attention over the past few weeks .
12 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 .
13 And , and that , cos tha , cos she has n't got her husband anymore , her husband 's got a good job like , getting well into , something like and he 's got , got loads of money !
14 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 .
15 My hon. Friend has made a good point .
16 My hon. Friend has made a good point .
17 Cos the top 's got a good overlap .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 Stephenson said that ‘ the government has done a good job in policy development , without burdening business but with sufficient controls ’ .
21 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 .
22 In fact as you know the world has moved a good deal faster than any of us expected .
23 So the Options Agency has had a good year , and hopefully will again next year .
24 Diploma Plc , holding company for a portfolio of electronic and construction products businesses , reporting pre-tax profits up 225% at £8.1m , says that industry may be broadly much weaker following a long and debilitating recession , but Diploma has maintained a good level of investment in people as well as plant , and has generally considered the recent years as an opportunity .
25 Following the ‘ Genius of Venice ’ exhibition at the Royal Academy in 1983–84 , Venetian sixteenth-century painting has had a good decade , with numerous major monographic shows .
26 But if your company has retained a good deal of discretion on key matters , it may be able to impose major changes on your working life without giving rise to a constructive dismissal claim .
27 If it 's got room for expansion which I 'm hoping then , I would say yeah because dad 's got a good reputation .
28 It tones them , it gets like the Miss 's got a good figure .
29 giving the appearance of the Party following the peasants but in fact the Party 's got a good idea where they will probably go anyway .
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