Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It is simply that I expected better service , ’ he snapped . |
| 2 | Now , there are quite a number of reasons for this and the good news , I think , that I bought good news again this morning is that presentations both about budgets er , and about what we do wi with the small churches is , er , could be some of our salvation . |
| 3 | Sally found that she had good abilities in this area . |
| 4 | If his parents bought her a present he was always comparing and felt that she had better things and more things than he did . |
| 5 | It would be a defence for a person charged to prove that he/she had good reason or lawful authority for having the article with him or her in a public place . |
| 6 | Otherwise , Sainsbury 's considered that they had good connections in the retail trade — especially through their joint-venture with British Home Stores — and thus their own recruiting facilities were usually adequate . |
| 7 | If the security services were so concerned about this then it clearly suggests that they had good reason to believe that Blake had not been forgotten by the Russians . |
| 8 | The continuing electoral hegemony of the Conservatives rested not only on the division of the anti-Tory vote between Labour and Liberals , but also on the fact that large numbers of manual and white-collar workers , benefiting from the rapid growth of new industries , services and housing in the Midlands and the South of England , felt that they had good reason to be grateful to the Government . |
| 9 | After sitting in the stalls and watching the summer show , the other two were convinced that they had good reason enough to want him . |
| 10 | It therefore seems directly consistent with the theory that candidates were forbidden to try to persuade the voters that they had better policies or attitudes than other candidates : a directive which had distinctive consequences for the pattern of the contest . |
| 11 | This approach became part of the negotiations with the teachers ' unions , who did not in principle object to appraisal , but wanted to ensure that they obtained good conditions of service and an adequate pay increase before agreeing to it . |
| 12 | To those who argued that the policy was deluded , its sponsors could answer that it had good aims in view ; indeed , the more glaring the disappointment , the more glowing the colours in which those aims were painted . |
| 13 | Its length was entirely related to the fact that it contained good news and , once again , Opposition Members did not want to hear it . |
| 14 | This method of teaching was effective in that it produced good results in an examination which focused on mathematical content . |
| 15 | The real clincher was that it made better tea and beer than the pump muck . |
| 16 | However , in other cases the courts have held that where a clause requiring best endeavours appears with an exclusion or force majeure clause , it qualifies the latter , so that the contractor can only rely on the exclusion or force majeure clause if it can establish that it used best endeavours ( see Yates and Hawkins , Standard Business Contracts : Exclusions and Related Devices , p165 ) . |
| 17 | Piggy felt that he had good leadership qualities , and during the voting , he held back to see if anybody was left to vote for him . |
| 18 | Piggy felt that he had good leadership qualities and during the voting he held back to see if anyone would vote for him . |
| 19 | Rob and Heather had just joined them then , and presumably Luke had felt that he had good reason for not wanting to prolong any conversation about Elise . |
| 20 | That Act also places the onus on the knife carrier to show that he had good reason for possessing it in public . |
| 21 | She moved , uncomfortably aware that he had good reason to be annoyed . |
| 22 | One thing you could say for Daine is that he had good taste in furniture . |
| 23 | That he had good cause is suggested by the fact that the raid is mentioned in the legal formulae of the Auvergne as being a time of great destruction . |
| 24 | Mel Smith took a sideswipe at Nigel Kennedy with his announcement that he had good news for music lovers — the violinist 's appearance had been cancelled . |
| 25 | I answered in Italian that my father had been an officer in the Austrian army and that he spoke good German . |