Example sentences of "have [verb] a good [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | By that time , the RECs should have developed a better understanding of the market , and pricing policies to suit . |
| 2 | Had you said this first instead of producing emotional gush about the hospital 's welfare , we could have saved a good deal of time . |
| 3 | On a good pitch and with a fast outfield , Indian should have made a better fist of their innings , but only Srikkanth ( who fell to an outstanding catch by Peter Taylor at mid-off ) passed 20 as Australia 's allrounders ran through the order . |
| 4 | Villa boss Ron Atkinson said : ‘ In the first half , we might have made a better game of it if we had turned up . |
| 5 | If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were . |
| 6 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 7 | Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation . |
| 8 | I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Had he seen a letter from Pope Gregory in AD 601 he 'd have had a better idea of what was happening . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Would his wife not have had a better quality of life with fewer children ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ IF Bulgaria had qualified for Euro 92 they would have had a good chance of winning it . |
| 18 | The other thing they say , if they 're Terrans , or actually , especially if they 're not , is , Well , you must have spent a good deal of time on Good Old Mother Earth . |
| 19 | A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending . |
| 20 | Minutes later , when Grant estimated he must have covered a good quarter of a mile , he again saw a grey wall barring his passage in the torch beam up ahead . |
| 21 | Television showed he was onside and under the revised law it would have stood a better chance of being allowed . |
| 22 | Hollywood could not have created a better image of the middle ages . |