Example sentences of "[vb pp] a very good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the financial side , it is well known that airline pilots are amongst the best paid professions and until the redundancies of the early 1980s changed the picture somewhat remarkably few of their number were prepared to accept a civil servant 's salary after having enjoyed a very good standard of living . |
| 2 | would have presented a very good budget for |
| 3 | It looks as if you 've done a very good turn to me and to a lot of other people this afternoon . |
| 4 | Which just leaves her domestic credentials to knock into shape , and now that they 're under scrutiny I realise I 've not done a very good job at all . |
| 5 | Alan Davies has done a very good job in a short space of time and if he remains as coach for three seasons or more Wales will be in with a fighting chance for the future — and certainly in the next World Cup ’ . |
| 6 | So what they had done it had a big slab there and it had got on it er The World 's Largest Slate Mine , and perhaps you 've seen it yourself they 've rubbed the T off and they put V and somebody 's done a very good job of it er in the same paint and everything . |
| 7 | Mr Hopkin expressed his opinion that we had done a very good job in our efforts , he then gave his professional advice |
| 8 | Howard Davies has done a very good job there . |
| 9 | I wonder if you feel that even if there was a deal , the British government , the Foreign Office , represented as they were , so admirably really , by Sir Edward Heath , he seems to have done a very good job , I wonder if he had to work very hard , or do you think perhaps , anybody could carry that out ? |
| 10 | sort of track are contacting the people who done a very good job on the on the public footpath erm and that was actually going through our land , and they done some steps with erm you know erm wooden erm supports in them , er maybe in in conjunction with , was it ? |
| 11 | ’ I do not accept those criticisms.I think the conservators have done a very good job over one hundred and ten years . |
| 12 | I have just read the article in November 's Today 's Horse on gadgets by Carolyn Henderson and I would like to say that in my opinion she has done a very good job pointing out the dangers of people with their own horses who resort to gadgets to get an outline and not to time and schooling . |
| 13 | Not only has it made a very good profit , but getting a bit of the American ethos into the business has been a good thing as well . |
| 14 | If you make a mistake , it 's just not possible to go back and retrieve it , and for a selector to say , ‘ Well , I do n't think this person 's made a very good case , I 'm sure if we gave them another chance they would make a better one . ’ |
| 15 | However , the SAAF have made a very good proposal to DASA that they take on 6886 in about a year 's time , along with a very comprehensive spare package . |
| 16 | There are still a number of important issues to be sorted out with the Board before the Society can approve the franchising proposals , but we have made a very good start . ’ |
| 17 | Longman have made a very good start to the year and erm , and so they 've progressed from day one , making last year I expect to continue . |
| 18 | Oh , dear , she had n't made a very good impression on the fabulous Dr Kent . |
| 19 | shoot up and down oh have n't made a very good job of it , god that 's rude , oh I had one of them , not last year |
| 20 | Cos I got told this afternoon he have n't made a very good job of this cleaning up ! |
| 21 | Yeah he 's made , he 's made a very good job |
| 22 | We are delighted to report that Ann McMillan has made a very good recovery from her operation . |
| 23 | When another person indicates support for something you have said , build on that alliance by acknowledging their contribution : ‘ Bill 's made a very good point there ’ , and , if appropriate , back them up ( 'and what I think is also relevant' or ‘ I 'd like to add to what he said by … |
| 24 | Yes , we do obviously erm in this particular region erm depend a great deal on the overseas visitor erm but I think Michael also made a very good point in relation to the comradeship which has emerged through the war erm and I think this was erm further identified by some representatives we sent out erm on the part of the local regional boards , in other words London , South East , Southern , East Anglia . |
| 25 | Few people paid much attention to Easy Rider until the previews , and slowly word got around that Fonda and Hopper had produced a very good film . |
| 26 | And I certainly think the results that you 've produced show that the , the problem is quite manageable because I think in the end you 've actually produced a very good programme for work . |
| 27 | The Trust has produced a very good booklet which costs £1 to everyone except Daily Mirror readers . |
| 28 | The Select Committee on Employment recently produced a very good report on home workers , which revealed that many earn as little as 20p or 30p an hour for making up Christmas crackers . |
| 29 | ‘ And Zimbabwe have got a very good chance of qualifying for the African Nations Cup AND the World Cup . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Well , Dr Greene has prescribed magnesium sulphate if your blood-pressure has n't dropped soon , but as long as you rest , you 've got a very good chance of reversing the cycle . ’ |