Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | This question of the benefit to be achieved from library activities has generated a good deal of literature , none of it very conclusive . |
| 2 | For various reasons the specific item search , into which the designers had put a good deal of effort , was less successful . |
| 3 | They reckon Lancastrians have got a good pint of Boddys . |
| 4 | As he put it : ‘ The planners and the road engineers have had a good bashing , but they have learnt their lesson . |
| 5 | The presence of Asian women advice workers has attracted a good response from the Asian community and the informality is attracting more family and personal enquiries of the sort that people may have felt uncomfortable about bringing previously . |
| 6 | Recent years have seen a good deal of change and instability in energy markets and the aim of the study is to investigate how these have influenced , or have been influenced by , the form of contractual behaviour in the markets . |
| 7 | China 's conservation efforts have received a good deal of attention and it has been difficult to sort out myth from reality . |
| 8 | I KNOW THE ADS HAVE CREATED A GOOD DEMAND . |
| 9 | How many rabbits have had a good meal off men 's rubbish heaps ? |
| 10 | This has been mostly in agricultural chemicals where tonnages have proved a good fit with Hickson 's type of batch equipment . |
| 11 | The Cycladic islands had produced a good late Geometric , and their orientalising is finer and more varied than the East Greek but still a minor flowering . |
| 12 | How many more of us would be fluent French speakers if our first French teachers had done a better job ? |
| 13 | The communiqué that was issued after the meeting noted that the talks had been ‘ frank and useful ’ and did not disguise the fact that there were still ‘ major differences ’ on a series of key issues ; but the two leaders had achieved a better understanding of their respective positions and had agreed on the importance of maintaining a ‘ constant dialogue ’ . |
| 14 | The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity . |
| 15 | If Austin Rover 's Leyland forebears had made a better job of the Stag in the first place , values would probably have risen before . |
| 16 | Again , they could have gone into the supermarket , but they thought the police had had a good look at them , so they sprinted through the crowds who took as little notice as they expected , and across the street just after the lights had changed 50 that the traffic beginning to move , hooted . |
| 17 | Film historians have spent a good deal of time debating the significance of the gangster films and attempting to relate them to the whole ethos of the Wall Street crash and the onset of the depression . |
| 18 | The police have done a good job but it 's very difficclt unless you catch them with a box of matches . |
| 19 | Beforehand , the pretence that he was interested in putting together a documentary series on psychic phenomena had seemed a good one . |
| 20 | The gains had been welcomed by the government as confirmation that its economic policies had received a good response from investors . |
| 21 | Expropriation of multinationals has created a good many SOEs . |
| 22 | The aromatic strength of the leaves has ensured a good deal of domestic and perfumery use , and it is also decorative , its pale blue flowers lasting many weeks and being much visited by bees . |
| 23 | The objectives of Rolls Royce had been met — a group of highly intelligent , well-motivated students had had a good experience of the engineering industry , and their interest in an engineering career had , by their own account , been greatly increased as a result . |
| 24 | Its Swallow Hotels have had a good year , helped by the first full year 's trading at Peterborough and Waltham Abbey . |
| 25 | The ploughs have done a good job . ’ |
| 26 | Whether they , they feel , they feel better and whether that 's because the nurses have done a good job or not . |
| 27 | Is the Minister aware that , while the science research councils have fared badly under the present Government , the humanities have fared a good deal worse under the direct rule of his Department ? |
| 28 | Central defenders have done a good job today for Leicester of course I 've put the curse on him saying that he knocks it straight out of play but er Gary Mills who 's missed half a dozen games through injury is going to come on now and he 's going to take the place of Neil Lewis . |
| 29 | But in the last three months the shares have enjoyed a good ride , jumping 40p to nearly 280p . |
| 30 | Ethologists have offered a good deal of cross-cultural evidence , usually in the form of pictures of infants seizing each others ' toys and pushing each other about in sandpits , to support the view that the tendency to direct unprovoked action upon another person is at least universal , even though there is nothing in the evidence to suggest a unique origin for the tendency . |