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

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1 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 .
2 Nor does , do they need to have good intellectual powers .
3 What we must do to have good skin is to cleanse , tone , and moisturize .
4 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 .
5 Then you had got to have good grounds to believe that they were going to commit a felony .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 ‘ I 'm realistic enough to know I 'm going to have good days and bad ones .
9 If they are around people who seem to have good experiences of drugs , they 'll join in .
10 Both seem to have good cars and to be comfortably off .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 ) .
15 . Of course , we had to have good quality tools , we had er er now , we had Spear and Jackson saws , always , because they was the best quality .
16 Writers need to have good judgement .
17 ‘ We now need to have good communications and contracts with tourist attractions , so we know exactly when they are open and if they have to close for any reason , ’ says Ms Burrows .
18 Children start in the beginners group and when they prove to have good contact with parents , the ability to understand instructions and to move from one position to another they move on to the advanced group which is for children over the age of two , still with parents accompanying .
19 They get advice from the officers of the Local Education Authority , so there 's a number of people who are running things , if you like to put it that way , and they have to have good relationships erm and I must say that erm I have n't seen anything obstructive , particularly on our Board of Governors , from local Councillors and we 've had nothing but help from Local Education Authority officers , and I 'm glad we 're not going to lose that help .
20 Again to have good timing you have to have good footwork , strong legs , a perfect point of contact ; the body , the racket and the ball are supposed to be in harmony .
21 To have good point of contact , you have to have good footwork and to have good footwork you have to be very strong .
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