Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 've examined some 13/0 and it has been good , yet I 've found some to have as low as 10.5% chrome content . |
| 2 | The year has been good for programme sales , particularly overseas where sales increased more than a half to £18.8m . |
| 3 | International co-operation on protecting the ozone layer has been good . |
| 4 | AS to others who must be taken seriously in the springtime ritual , it has been good to see Sandy Lyle regain form , Nick Faldo lose unneeded bulk , Severiano Ballesteros come all the way back and Ian Woosnam ending his celebration of winning last year 's Masters . |
| 5 | By those standards , Goldsmith 's revenge has been good . |
| 6 | Coverage in both dimensions has been good . |
| 7 | She has been good to me and although she knows there is something wrong and maybe suspects there is something I have not told her about she gives nothing away . |
| 8 | THE STRIKE at Britain 's waterworks has been good news for a sheltered workshop in Watford . |
| 9 | ‘ The positive image has been good for business , ’ Norton says . |
| 10 | It has been good for both business and charity : since its launch in late 1988 , more than 300,000 cardholders have been recruited , and an estimated £2 million has been donated to the Imperial Cancer Research Fund , the British Heart Foundation and Mencap . |
| 11 | ‘ Arthritis has been good to Arthur ’ |
| 12 | So far his aim has been good . |
| 13 | Once again , it 's flagging below a level which would give him confidence for London , yet his form over shorter distances has been good , highlighted recently by a new course record of 38:20 at the Thorney 12K in Peterborough . |
| 14 | ‘ I was told I had to play well week-in , week-out in the League to further my chances of getting back into the international side and it has been good to play in a successful side at Cardiff . ’ |
| 15 | The take-up of this new procedure has been good . |
| 16 | However , it has been good that , thanks to the work of Ronnie Martin and his helpers , we have been able to have some use of the building on Sundays for our expanding Learning Together programme . |
| 17 | I think my form has been good enough . |
| 18 | Whenever Keith has been good for a day Mr Smith should watch a programme on the television with him . |
| 19 | Keith says Shaunagh has been good for him . |
| 20 | The Lord has been good to me . ’ |
| 21 | Though there has been good response in the first two areas , it is in the third that the brief hints in the text have been totally transcended through the amazing growth of lay groups meeting for prayer or study , representing various degrees of organization or none , some purely Catholic but most of them ecumenically open . |
| 22 | ‘ I do n't always believe people when they say that Christmas trade has been good . |
| 23 | ‘ While our batting has been good , the bowling has been steady rather than dynamic , which is why we have n't been bowling sides out a second time , ’ reasons Fraser . |
| 24 | It has been good to me and I 'm very grateful for everything it 's brought us . |
| 25 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 26 | On this , as on other issues , the outcome of the Government actions has been good , even if its motives for seeking the reforms are suspect . |
| 27 | Since the argument ended , Mr. Beloff has been good enough to send us , by agreement with the other parties to Miss Calder 's application , extracts from the works of two legal historians who venture to express opinions on the legal position after 1873 . |
| 28 | The lord abbot here has been good enough to admit me to his confidence so far as is appropriate , since I was a witness of what happened this morning , but now you have cause to enquire further , as I understand . |
| 29 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 30 | What is beyond question is that British membership has been good for the EEC ; not only do British taxpayers and consumers bear the cost of the CAP , the CFP , the Common External Tariff and the Cohesion budget , but Britain constitutes an artificial captive market for the exporters of the Eleven . |