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

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1 Certainly we must hope that the government in its final response will take the arguments put forward by Alvey somewhat further ; after all it has had the best part of six months to consider them .
2 And he 'd tell me stories or sing to me , and sometimes , after he 'd had a good tumblerful of whisky , he 'd slide his hand up my shorts and stroke my thigh .
3 As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives .
4 and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC .
5 Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening .
6 No children , odd sex and , as a high churchman , he 'd really have had a better image of himself if he 'd managed to keep to celibacy .
7 If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth .
8 This probably reflects the perceptions of the respondents rather than a real difference in the actual quality of life of the people who died , although staff members may have been more willing to act as respondents for residents they had got on well with , and those residents may have had a better quality of life because of their relationship with the staff .
9 Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ?
10 She could see that if the circumstances of their meeting had been happier they would have had a good drink of her mother 's secret stash of Bushmill 's and reminisced all night .
11 ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it .
12 In addition , among those for whom a staff member responded only one in twelve of those admitted during the last year of the life was felt to have had a good quality of life during that time compared with nearly half ( 46 per cent ) of those who had been in a home for a year or more .
13 In some ways , thought Henry , the man with whom Donald had been confused seemed to have had a better time of it .
14 The whole operation had taken a few seconds only , a little huddle of activity in all of which the discreet entry of Liz Spalding to the house had had a good chance of going unnoticed by any distant , watching eyes .
15 The objectives of Rolls Royce had been met — a group of highly intelligent , well-motivated students had had a good experience of the engineering industry , and their interest in an engineering career had , by their own account , been greatly increased as a result .
16 He had had a good deal of experience of the deliberate malice of political adversaries , who felt for him a genuine fear that was replaced by contempt only for his lesser colleagues .
17 Fortunately he had had a good deal of practice in this .
18 No birds about at the moment but they 've had a good feed of chicken , but
19 We have had a good couple of months and we are fairly positive about the outlook for the remainder of the year . ’
20 I think the main ingredient for success is that you have to have a good sense of timing .
21 To do this you have to have a good understanding of the materials .
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