Example sentences of "have [vb pp] good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The magazine has received good support recently with a number of members submitting articles for inclusion .
2 This method has given good control of ostertagiasis , but many farmers are unwilling to continue housing and feeding calves when there is ample grazing available .
3 The lineout remains a big headache , although Drikus Hattingh has won good ball at the front and No 8 Adriaan Richter has blossomed as the tour has unfolded .
4 Geoffrey Fisher wrote a last school report which in later years became legendary : ‘ A boy with plenty of force of character who , in spite of certain uncouthnesses , has done good service on his own lines ’ .
5 Banking services and finance companies continued to trade profitably in spite of higher interest rates and the group 's network of independent financial advisers , has made good progress , although slower than envisaged .
6 On the second erm erm issue the commitments in Greater York , erm Mr has has made good progress erm on this erm and he 's been had discussions this morning with er district colleagues and hopefully we we are nearly there on that one .
7 Though the DHA has made good provision for assessment and diagnosis , accommodation for those requiring long-term care , which is provided primarily by the private sector , was found to be insufficient .
8 Lemar says Liverpool has had good play ?
9 WHO DO YOU THINK HAS GOT GOOD HAIR ?
10 WHO DO YOU THINK HAS GOT GOOD HAIR ? :
11 WHO DO YOU THINK HAS GOT GOOD HAIR ? :
12 Next , I 'd pick the Exeter High Income , a very high income fund … because it has got good recovery prospects .
13 Although the same group of physicists has found good evidence for the production of B mesons at CESR before , this latest result shows for the first time the explicit decay of B mesons into less-rare , longer-lived particles ( Physical Review Letters , vol 50 , p 881 ) .
14 Sports like bowls and snooker are excellent practice for standing balance , if the patient has recovered good balance and selective movements in his leg .
15 The ex-Linfield boss has instilled good organisation and a never-say-die attitude into a squad still short of a couple of quality players .
16 In Ireland , Guinness has achieved good progress despite economic factors which have depressed consumer spending , and a high level of competitor activity .
17 If it is the buyer he will have to give up goods ( or their value ) for which he has paid good money .
18 ‘ The kiosk would 've done good business today , ’ thought Marie .
19 You would have the right only if you 'd made good use of your experience of life . ’
20 He 'd done good work on the drama pilot , and it was galling to hear this woman refer to it so dismissively .
21 Of course we 'd got good excuse .
22 Alan Campbell concluded : ‘ Having received good business since our start-up , it was rewarding to feel that we contributed , in some way , to provide a life-line to a country in need of urgent help . ’
23 As a magazine article , any one of these chapters would have made good reading .
24 It would have made good drama to pit Bernard 's projection of mass production against Laura 's fears that this would threaten to destroy the ethnic and cottage industry appeal upon which the business was based .
25 Dunes , palm trees , mud-brick villages , children and animals would have made good picture postcards , but , for all its beauty , the desert was terrifying .
26 Anne would have had good use for a machete .
27 Given the complexities of Merovingian family politics , Chlothar 's denial of paternity is not conclusive : he may have had good reason to disassociate himself from Gundovald 's mother .
28 The impression of IBM Corp , Digital Equipment Corp and their ilk lining up like lambs to the slaughter may seem hard to credit for customers that have been driven to accept very hard bargains , but that is what appears to be happening with this Gadarene rush by the major manufacturers to get into the facilities management business in the US : we understand that many of the savings and loans , banks and securities houses that have gratefully accepted offers by the majors to run their data processing operations for them has little to do with saving money over the term of the contract , much to do with their urgent need for cash upfront to repair their ravaged balance sheets — the key attraction of the deals being the money paid at the start of the contract for the data processing facilities ; if the customers are in that much need of cash , chances are that many of them wo n't be around in five or seven years ' time , so that having spent good money for computers they do n't need , the facilities managers will be left with idle installations and contracts with no residual value .
29 By this means , a student who suffers badly from " exam nerves ' may benefit from having obtained good essay or project marks ; conversely , students who dislike preparing written work on their own but who respond well under the time pressure of an " unseen " exam may also do well .
30 It was a perfectly serious prophecy , for which I would have paid good money had I gone to one of the Haleiwa psychics .
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