Example sentences of "have a good [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In every case , you have a better chance of being considered if you are able to put your performance on record . |
| 2 | ‘ Sealink shares the view that scope for higher fares may now be greater but the economies of pooling would enable the ferries to offer a superior , uniform product and have a better chance of survival if the tunnel competition proves to be severe . ’ |
| 3 | The Government 's principal task in the months to come will be to restore the right mix of monetary and fiscal policy — now badly out of balance — so that interest rates have a better chance of coming down , and staying down over the long run . |
| 4 | When casting , I have the bomb hanging about three feet from the rod-tip ( if you always keep this distance the same you have a better chance of casting consistently ) with my right hand around the butt and reel seat , and the line looped over my index finger . |
| 5 | The committee takes the view that government research projects carried out by private industry have a better chance of leading to commercial rewards in terms of new products and processes . |
| 6 | By this time they are more able to fend for themselves , and have a better chance of survival . |
| 7 | In this instance I have a better chance of getting the ball close by using the slope to let the ball run down to the flag . |
| 8 | Antibiotics administered pre-operatively have a better chance of preventing infection . |
| 9 | ‘ When I talk to people about how best to protect themselves from attack I always tell them that if they can turn that surprise back on to the attacker they have a better chance of making an escape . |
| 10 | Keep your exercises plain and simple , and you have a better chance of enjoying them , rather than looking on them as a burden . |
| 11 | WOMEN have a better chance of conceiving if they stop smoking , researchers said yesterday . |
| 12 | If that happens as normal , then the puffins have a better chance of survival . |
| 13 | Applicants clearly have a better chance of obtaining accommodation quickly if willing to accept a dwelling in one of the main settlements , and this in turn may be detrimental and cause long journeys to work . |
| 14 | Those who manage to present themselves with a cool , unemotional middle-class style have a better chance of their messages being responded to . |
| 15 | The experience of the Anonymous Fellowships and of Treatment Centres based upon their principles is that the sufferers from primary addictive disease have a better chance of sustained recovery if the close family members attend corresponding appropriate Family Fellowships . |
| 16 | The extra speed and wide reach of the service means more patients reach hospital within the so-called Golden Hour , when surgeons have a better chance of saving life . |
| 17 | GP fund holders placed contracts for more MRI sessions than the district health authority … so their patients have a better chance of being seen quickly … in about three weeks instead of about four months.But hospital managers deny that means two types of care … |
| 18 | FORMER CBI chief Sir Terence Beckett claims North-East small businesses have a better chance of survival than their counterparts elsewhere in the country . |
| 19 | The trial is of national importance if it can be proved that seriously injured patients taken directly to a trauma unit have a better chance of survival , the policy is likely to be adopted in other parts of the country . |
| 20 | But we also want people to understand what is happening in places like Latin America so they have a better awareness of why Oxfam is trying to help . |
| 21 | In the two companies with the greatest number of businesses it was felt that the individual business units have a better knowledge of the specific economic factors which directly affect their own markets . |
| 22 | Have a better knowledge of m7/m6 voice-leading . |
| 23 | ‘ I suppose 't is because I am the elder and have a better knowledge of such things , ’ Anne replied in a superior tone . |
| 24 | ‘ We have a better level of funding than many areas , but it is still discretionary and could be taken away . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Certainly we have a better image of what 's wrong with the cancer cell at the moment . ’ |
| 26 | Students who work with Reading Skills for the Social Sciences , are most likely to notice that they read with greater confidence and that they have a better command of academic/specialised vocabulary as a result of using the book . |
| 27 | This was unusual as we normally have a better record of reliability than that . ’ |
| 28 | In the end , only the action is viable , so that all these essays tend to match the inside ethnography and are nullified by neglect or have any contentious matter treated as ‘ privileged information ’ , for as Templeton ( 1980 : 904 ) argues ‘ the police fear that if you have a better understanding of society , you are in a better position to change it — the very exercise [ they ] are reluctant to engage in ’ . |
| 29 | As they showed in 1987 , today 's central bankers have a better understanding of their responsibilities as providers of liquidity and lenders of last resort . |
| 30 | In some cultures there are still some established religious and social rituals surrounding death that help all the bereaved have a better understanding of how they are supposed to behave at certain times . |