Example sentences of "[verb] to have a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In contrast , ‘ cash cows ’ will be expected to have a good ROI and cash flow and higher sales-turnover ratios . |
| 2 | These young patients appear to have a good prognosis following infarction and intervention policies based on exercise testing in an older age group may not be appropriate . |
| 3 | When Pitt wants to have a good time he invites his ‘ little group of buddies ’ , including actor Dermot Mulroney — a whiz on the cello — over for an old-fashioned ‘ hootinanny ’ jam session . |
| 4 | A man gets tired of his business and his family , and he wants to have a good time . |
| 5 | ‘ I want to have a good look round Mr Livesey 's rooms . |
| 6 | I want to have a good talk with Mr Makepeace and Mr Farraday … ’ |
| 7 | I want to work with people who want to have a good time . |
| 8 | You want to have a good time and paint the town red this weekend , but somehow you feel restricted and constrained from enjoying life . |
| 9 | ‘ Users just want to have a good time , ’ he says . |
| 10 | The field needs to have a good supply of water . |
| 11 | She says : ‘ I tried to have a good marriage , be a good mother and have a career . |
| 12 | It will offer up to £100,000 in support to Fife companies with ideas that are considered to have a good chance of success but lack resources needed to develop their products . |
| 13 | The Committee suggested that the Lord Chancellor should appoint chairmen and clearly favoured an increase in the use of lawyer chairmen principally because lawyers were considered to have a good grasp of principles of procedural fairness . |
| 14 | Local firms will need to have a good grasp of the challenges or threats that 1992 will bring , to have a good feel for which sectors and industries locally will be most affected when the barriers come down . |
| 15 | If the duty is unexcludable Elvis would appear to have a good chance of success . |
| 16 | Therefore XY Ltd would appear to have a good title to the goods one way or another . |
| 17 | It was as though the wind and tide had decided to have a good rest having expended all its fury achieving the high water mark . |
| 18 | They seemed to have a good relationship , agree about most things , and never , never row — at least , not in front of the children . |
| 19 | The Chinese are very good singers , and practically every other person seemed to have a good voice and a repertoire of songs , a lot of them popular revolutionary songs , but also they gave us a rendering of ‘ old Man River ’ and a few others , and we all rounded the occasion off with Rio Grande , Old MacDonald had a farm ( during which the Chairman of the Institute Revolutionary Committee looked a bit bemused ) and Auld Lang Syne. and I also did our bit , singing a few English songs including ‘ Turpin Hero ’ , and we even attempted a rendering of two Chinese songs from the opera ‘ the White-Haired Girl ’ , much to everybody 's amusement and applause . |
| 20 | It seemed to have a good deal going for it . |
| 21 | Moreover there is a notable tendency to be selective , in that one positively elects to assist a particular aunt , nephew or cousin , with whom one happens to have a good relationship . |
| 22 | The organisation making the most economic use of nurses may expect to have a good proportion of its staff on part-time contracts . |
| 23 | I 'd like to have a good head on me . |
| 24 | I should like to have a good bath — I have n't had one for weeks — and something to eat , before you begin to cut me up as though I were one of your business opponents laid out for you to hand them the coup de grâce . ’ |
| 25 | We 've got to have a good system of monitoring with a liason committee . |
| 26 | Oh yes yeah outside yes and old programmes they sell at away matches , badges , season tickets as you might understand , but they , they are going to have a good day in April on the centenary day because they have it getting all the old players Tony says he , he 's been invited to attend as well and Gilbert I believe will be going and erm |
| 27 | And they 're going to have a good look and you may need to do all sorts of interesting things , okay . |
| 28 | I think that it is going to have a good effect on improving trading for the better parks and attractions in this country and as you know I think , Alton Towers is the leading er , park of its kind in this country , Chessington which we also own is the second er , leading park , one and a half million visitors a year , Alton Towers approximately two million visitors a year in this country . |
| 29 | we 're not going to play golf , we 're going to have a good time . |
| 30 | And tonight he was going to have a good time . |