Example sentences of "have [verb] at good " in BNC.
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| 1 | A coherent strategy for retrospective conversion has not been attempted for the UK ( although it is known that there are stirrings of such an initiative in a European context , involving the British Library ) and lack of institutional funding for such unglamorous activities has ensured at best a piecemeal approach . |
| 2 | ‘ We still trade from there , but in order to thrive we have had to look at better ways of selling . ’ |
| 3 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 4 | Wall Street is beginning to firm up its forecasts for IBM Corp 's first quarter figures , with the consensus at around 20 cents a share and the more bearish going for 50 cents — but if Technology News of America 's straw poll of the market around the US and Europe is anywhere near right , the loss is going to be a whole lot worse than that : the returns suggest that the company will have sold at best between 25 and 30 mainframes this quarter , where the Wall Street forecasts assume it did nearer 50 machines . |
| 5 | Support for the family against Gloucester must have seemed at best futile , at worst likely to precipitate the slide into factional conflict which the political community was most anxious to avoid . |
| 6 | Support for the family against Gloucester must have seemed at best futile , at worst likely to precipitate the slide into factional conflict which the political community was most anxious to avoid . |