Example sentences of "[noun] have [not/n't] [be] [adv] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 2 | We are accused of being the poor men of Europe , and I think we are economically and industrially the poor men of Europe or at least our performances have n't been very good in this respect since the War , but the other side is that because we are the poor men and are self-conscious about it , that we have compensated , in a sense , in the vitality of our music and of our culture , and certainly in the pop culture . |
| 3 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 4 | We 're a bit understocked anyway — business has n't been so good since the trouble started . ’ |
| 5 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 6 | ‘ Britain has not been very good at getting the ideas out of universities . |
| 7 | Numbers have not been too good and although last sing-a-long was not a total washout financially speaking , he feels a good attendance and atmosphere are more important . |
| 8 | Edward 's references from the construction firm when he left Panama had not been very good . |
| 9 | Our experience of multilingual and multinational federations has not been very good . |
| 10 | Perhaps Leila 's family had not been quite good enough for him . |