Example sentences of "they have a [adv] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the moment they 've a very good training plant for for Sizewell B , they show you the old erm magnox station , but they also the pressure water reactor station , and course also we 've got the very old one down at Bradwell if you know about , down on the Me West Merseyside , we got the old power station down there . |
| 2 | I seem to remember he got away from her by locking himself in his flat with friends for the weekend and they had a jolly good party . |
| 3 | I think they had a jolly good time at the taxpayer 's expense , I but I wo n't be |
| 4 | For another , they had a perfectly good word to describe our human vitality , the quality that marks off a living person from a dead one and that was nephesh . |
| 5 | ‘ In our case , I think people were looking further afield for education without realising that they had a very good facility close to home . |
| 6 | To the administrators concerned with the welfare of the Masai , however , it seemed that they had a very good case for keeping the enormous area which had been assigned to them . |
| 7 | They had a very good sense of humour and could tell long sophisticated stories in what is called the spaccato , the real dialect of Parma . |
| 8 | erm Well they had a very good game against erm Milwall on erm Wednesday night , which they drew nil all , an excellent game here today erm scored the vital winning goal and duly Brian Horton handed over the loot after the game today and said ‘ there you are , you can take the man of the match award ’ . |
| 9 | Because they are common in aquatic environments they have a rather good fossil record , and are not uncommon in freshwater sediments of Jurassic and Cretaceous age . |
| 10 | And , I talked to other publishers erm , including a very large one which will be nameless and they have a pretty good spread and their experience was the same as ours . |
| 11 | So with regard to these beings , the Chewong know that they are vulnerable to attack , but that if they take proper care in their day-to-day behaviour and avoid places where potentially harmful beings are known to live and set their traps , they have a fairly good chance of being healthy and fit . |
| 12 | In its place they have a very good organisation called the United Kingdom Immigration Advice Service and I will quote a fax I have received from them . |
| 13 | Sainsbury marketing director Robin Whitbread says : ‘ They have a very good understanding of our business and its dynamics . ’ |
| 14 | Yeah but they go to somewhere bloody they go to the same place every year and they have a real good time . |
| 15 | New research shows that if penicillin is given early enough to patients with the deadly bacterial form of the disease , they have a much better chance of survival . |
| 16 | At best , that understanding is only partial , but anthropologists would claim that they have a much better insight into the motives and perceptions of " other people " than do scholars who work within other conventions — whether they be those of pure science or of the humanities . |