Example sentences of "have got a [adv] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Even as a new MP , she has got a much better grounding in the way that the Treasury and Number 10 work than most MPs who 've been there a long time . ’ |
| 2 | Erm I do a lot of er large goods vehicle training and if you get erm with a very large vehicle thirty eight tonnes , you can not , even with an artic which has got a very good dogleg to get round , you can not do it . |
| 3 | And then I , and I made this bit of a faux pas , I says , oh you must have got a very good rate , cos I knew she 'd been retired years and years , you see . |
| 4 | I seemed to have got a significantly better offer on this . |
| 5 | er right erm tt yep that seems to be okay I did n't erm no I was reading this on , this morning just after the clinical lecture and I did n't see anything that , that I thought would be problematic erm you know given , you know , sort of what I 've seen in your coursework so far you seem to have got a fairly good idea of what you can ask and what you can get away with and what sorts of things you think are useful and , and , and stuff like that so erm you know I 'm entirely happy with your judgment as to the content erm you know because it 's part of an ongoing pr project and it 's not just something that you 've , you 've knocked off in half an hour or anything so erm |
| 6 | They 've got a right good offer on at Manor Grove for videos last week , they were er er eight o' clo er they were arriving I think there were only about half a dozen . |
| 7 | Yeah I mean I think you 're pretty good on those , you know about alternative sources of energy and you 've got a pretty good idea of nuclear power , what it 's about erm you know half life erm Then this gets onto the technical bit . |
| 8 | But it 's true I 've got a pretty good idea what should be there . |
| 9 | Er , we know that there 's an O and M report coming through , we 've got a pretty good idea what 's in it . |
| 10 | ‘ Granted , I ca n't point to a place on the map and say this is where we are , but I 've got a pretty good idea . ’ |
| 11 | Once you 've got a pretty good grip on what they 're doing then you 've really got to think of something else if you want your playing to sound different from everyone else 's . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , Dr Greene has prescribed magnesium sulphate if your blood-pressure has n't dropped soon , but as long as you rest , you 've got a very good chance of reversing the cycle . ’ |
| 13 | Well the way Chelsea are playing at the moment , you 've got a very good chance of winning . |
| 14 | " I 've got a very good idea , " returned Rossmayne with some feeling . |
| 15 | And , I do n't know , it seems that actually you 've got a very good sense of using all those traditions to inform things that happen , things that you do and erm you 're not locked in being regarded as in that sort of tradition and the pressures that result from that . |
| 16 | They 've got a very good welfare committee er employees ' committee you know . |
| 17 | So we 've got a very good film . |
| 18 | It is but bearing in mind the lifestyle that you 've got now , you 've got a very good lifestyle . |
| 19 | We 've got a very good set up erm my mechanic Mick Day is coming back again tomorrow ; I 'm picking him up from the airport , so that 'll be three years with him and erm I can rely on him to sort of get things ready and erm you know , we 've got a great set up and really I can just concentrate on trying to be erm world speedway champion this year . |
| 20 | We would like to keep the ball alive , we like to keep the ball on the park and erm looking from there , we will be harrying , chasing ; we think we 've got a very good set of backs . |
| 21 | You 've got a very good hand . |
| 22 | erm I 'd like to be a little bit positive about certain things this evening too because I too believe that you 've got a very good programme . |
| 23 | One of the reasons we 've got a very good language link is the language univer courses that the University did in the East in the European department , the Baltic Studies . |
| 24 | Staff commission has issued a number of consulta or has issued a consultation paper , and I detail that in paragraph eight , and in our response to that , basically , we have said the nineteen seventy-four arrangements for the staff commission seemed to have worked very well , and we hope the staff commission will , the new staff commission will stick very closely to that , and only vary them when they 've got a perfectly good reason for doing so . |
| 25 | then you 've got a really good target . |
| 26 | Tell you what , I 've got a far better idea . |
| 27 | You can go from being a total novice to someone who 's got a reasonably good idea by the end of one week . |
| 28 | Darwin 's in effect in this passage is saying no , I do n't think that 's so at all , I think that this common pattern that all vertebrates have is simple the adaptive features of the common ancestor of the vertebrates , and I think he 's got a jolly good case . |
| 29 | Tessa Dahl 's famous father Roald certainly knew what made a good children 's book , and judging by The Same But Different , with illustrations by Arthur Robins ( Puffin , £2.99 ) , she 's got a pretty good idea too . |
| 30 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |