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

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1 Lemar says Liverpool has had good play ?
2 P&O European Ferries has operated record-breaking runs on its Dover-Calais service , Sealink has had good increases on all its UK routes and Sally Line passenger numbers from Ramsgate to Dunkirk in the first six months of the year are well up .
3 I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years .
4 Maguire and Dunwoody both looked to have good chances of completing trebles in the concluding Chailey Handicap Hurdle , but Maguire 's mount Manhattan Boy has yet to win outside selling company and faded into third , while Dunwoody 's mount Ilewin found little under pressure after looking really dangerous .
5 Nor does , do they need to have good intellectual powers .
6 So when my cousin rang to ask ‘ which machine ’ , I said I 'd had good results and so on .
7 What we must do to have good skin is to cleanse , tone , and moisturize .
8 It says have good access or be able to provide good access to the primary road network .
9 Cos this happens to be a camera but it could just as well be er an electric toaster , or any , any inanimate object taken er , in this fashion , and the thing you 've got to do if you take a photograph of an inanimate object er , like this , is to light it correctly , er it 's got to show all the erm , detail finely , and it 's got to have good quality in the printing .
10 Then you had got to have good grounds to believe that they were going to commit a felony .
11 Jones claimed to have good title by virtue of the two sections , thereby defeating the title of the owner from whom the thieves had stolen the car .
12 With an eye to the latest unemployment figures , due today , when the seasonally adjusted total is expected to remain just under the three million barrier , the Chancellor added : ‘ Obviously in the months ahead we are going to have good news and bad news .
13 ‘ I 'm realistic enough to know I 'm going to have good days and bad ones .
14 If they are around people who seem to have good experiences of drugs , they 'll join in .
15 Both seem to have good cars and to be comfortably off .
16 She must also have had good sources of information , as she was said to know all the gossip of the village .
17 Anne would have had good use for a machete .
18 Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother .
19 According to China 's news agency Xinhua , which appears to have good contacts inside Afghanistan , a group of mujaheddin field commanders has rejected the Peshawar government and wants the United Nations to settle the civil war .
20 For example , it is important to know what properties an estimator or test statistic , which is known to have good properties if we happen to have chosen the correct model , will have for models with particular types of mis-specification .
21 On a car or winch launch , the pull of the rope or launching cable exerts very little stabilising effect , but the rapid acceleration usually ensures that enough speed is gained to have good control .
22 The slightly lower figure for Stornoway may be caused by a greater tendency for cloud formation over the land to the west and south-west ( the sources of the prevailing winds ) , while exposed western coasts tend to have good sunshine records ( at sea level ) ( Green& Harding 1983 ) .
23 ‘ He ought to have had good teeth . ’
24 If you prefer an alternative approach , some aromatherapists and reflexologists claim to have had good results .
25 In the case of Camden and Islington , the authority did have good officers , and they did have the capacity to plan for a future district based provision .
26 He did have good words to say for its menfolk ; ‘ … sturdy and bold , honest and sagacious ’ .
27 However that may be , Cnut 's considerable generosity to Canterbury implies that he did have good relations with Æthelnoth , and this possibly made him the more determined to control the selection of his successor .
28 Fourth , structure ( 47 ) for the clausal adjective follows just the same general intensional pattern as will be needed for sentences which contain not an adjective but a ( non-finite ) verb phrase : ( 61 ) Leonard proved this theorem to rival the Nomination theorem in its scope Atkins will guarantee her picture to have fetched $100,000 at its last sale 4.7 It seems permissible to agree , in this case , that we do have good grounds for accepting that the adjectives are understood as part of a structure felt to be a clause , of which the preceding noun phrase would be the subject .
29 as if it had happened a few years ago , Mr Donal John MacLennan , leaning on his metal gate as his sheep thronged the pens of today 's farm at Corry , knew that Johnson and Boswell had been guests in this place , and that they had had good times here .
30 Many locals had had good reason to be grateful to him when times had been hard .
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