Example sentences of "they have a good [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had a good reputation for being able to develop mechanical ideas if you briefed them well ( they had already built the TARDIS console for Peter Brachaki ) . |
| 2 | ‘ I take risks , but they 're calculated risks and I would n't take them if I did n't think they had a good chance of succeeding . |
| 3 | Even in Wessex and East Anglia the ravaged territories were not always particularly extensive at any one time , and much of the population may have reckoned that they had a good chance of escaping . |
| 4 | courses in turn , tended to select for observation those schools where they had a good relationship with the drama specialist . |
| 5 | Anyway when they had a good look at it the front half was an Escort and the back half was an Orion , half a stolen car . |
| 6 | Apart from collecting money from the offertory at Mass , which was always very well attended , they had a good income from what they charged individuals to have Masses said for the souls of the dead . |
| 7 | They had a good supper of eggs and milk and crunchy , fresh bread in the kitchen which was as clean as the rest of the house but more cheerful with a big range fire that threw out heat like a furnace . |
| 8 | They had a good diet of bread , margarine , jam and bacon for breakfast , roast beef , potatoes and greens , and rice pudding for lunch , and bread and jam for tea with cake once a week . |
| 9 | Despite their distinctiveness , they had a good deal in common with the other upper-class groups ; and they were an important source of loans for the growing group of entrepreneurs . |
| 10 | They had a good job in the paper erm , part of the school . |
| 11 | Before the Americans were irrevocably committed , however , and before the French positions on the Chinese frontier were overrun , they could conceivably have strengthened non-communist national forces in Vietnam to the point where they had a better chance of competing with the Vietminh or even , biting on the bullet , the French could have tried to negotiate a settlement , no matter what alarm that prospect might have caused their American allies . |
| 12 | They had a better line in diplomacy than old Chamberlain himself and certainly did more good in the world . |
| 13 | If a husband and wife can only tell each other how uncomfortable they feel about the change , and how odd it makes them feel , not endlessly or every day , but just to give a place to the fact , then they have a good chance of staying on a fairly positive course . |
| 14 | Where these are offering high standards of service and promotional benefits , they have a good chance of success . |
| 15 | It 's only a hop and a skip from the Viaduct , and they have a good selection of the latest fashions . ’ |
| 16 | They have a good scrum-half in David Llewellyn and the backs have the confidence-boosting presence of Roger Bidgood , whose display against Scotland on winning his first cap was excellent . |
| 17 | For this to occur , developers should ensure that they have a good reputation for fair dealing and an established relationship with local and national estate agents . |
| 18 | HEART attack victims stand a better chance of survival if they have a good network of friends and neighbours , researchers announced today . |
| 19 | The police and football authorities now say they have a good picture of who 's who in the hooligan world . |
| 20 | They have a good stock of wicks and , if they do not have your particular one on the shelf , are confident they can order one for you . |
| 21 | ‘ We 're very fortunate with Verve in that they have a good understanding of why I work and about the way in which I work . |
| 22 | They have a good claim to be considered " the world 's first organized radical-democratic political party " . |
| 23 | They have a better reputation for reusability , |
| 24 | ‘ When I talk to people about how best to protect themselves from attack I always tell them that if they can turn that surprise back on to the attacker they have a better chance of making an escape . |
| 25 | But we also want people to understand what is happening in places like Latin America so they have a better awareness of why Oxfam is trying to help . |
| 26 | In some cases a liaison arrangement is made with an individual who will , in addition to the responsibilities given in ( 1 ) above , help with the training of Archive staff so that they have a better appreciation of the needs of particular users of the data . |
| 27 | Students who work with Reading Skills for the Social Sciences , are most likely to notice that they read with greater confidence and that they have a better command of academic/specialised vocabulary as a result of using the book . |
| 28 | they have a better class of cliché . |