Example sentences of "[verb] been [art] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to now , there has been no good explanation for why the observed value should by so small . |
| 2 | Fatima has been a good wife to you . |
| 3 | In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money . |
| 4 | Secretary Peter Masheter said : ‘ It has been a good year with membership increasing to 63 from around 40 . |
| 5 | It has been a good year to be at Stirling . |
| 6 | And the Cid assembled his chief captains and knights and people , and said unto them , Kinsmen and friends and vassals , hear me : to-day has been a good day , and to-morrow shall be a better day . |
| 7 | It has been a good day for them . |
| 8 | Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy . |
| 9 | In every instance , Norman still somehow managed a smile , for , if nothing else , he has been a good loser . |
| 10 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 11 | There has been a good reduction in the number of strikes ; we must give the Government credit where it is due . |
| 12 | Although there has been a good response so far to the environmental technology innovation scheme , there are no plans to increase the current allocation of £12 million . |
| 13 | There has been a good response to Bishopton/Redmarshall School 's appeal for supplies for the needy children in the Russian town of Kostrama . |
| 14 | ‘ This has been a good test for his knee and we do n't think it is a big problem . |
| 15 | I had got over my nerves by then ( was even thinking Travels With My Angst might not be the most suitable title for my book ) and was able to take a more even view of the handsome tour guide who had confessed to me , ‘ This has been a good trip for me . |
| 16 | Bombay has been a good ground for me in the past , but we need to put in a better performance than we have been doing . |
| 17 | It has been a good Christmas for Oxford . |
| 18 | This has been a good debate , as Friday debates often are . |
| 19 | This has been a good debate . |
| 20 | ‘ It has been a good time to come into the market , ’ said Steve Leroux , leasing manager . |
| 21 | It is possible to identify times when there has been a good process of consultation and use them as examples . |
| 22 | For us the fertilizer business has been a good business , in many parts of the world over many years , and even its downturns have been of fairly limited duration . |
| 23 | But another lesson I have learnt has been a good deal more unsettling . |
| 24 | His defeat is as certain as Mr Melding 's , although his campaign has been a good deal less rough : canvassing for Labour in a prosperous south coast resort may be discouraging , but it is scarcely dangerous , unless you count the speechless stick-waving of elderly gentlefolk as assault . |
| 25 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 26 | There has been a good deal written about coal field culture but coal field culture is not now ( although it was very recently ) central to either of my locales . |
| 27 | There has been little sociological work on this topic but there has been a good deal of interesting history , much of it carried out under the aegis of the North East Labour History Society . |
| 28 | There has been a good deal of discussion recently of time-perspectives in industrial and economic policy , with both industry and the City being accused of ‘ short-termism ’ , sometimes in comparison with the Germans or Japanese . |
| 29 | It is generally known , of course , that standard English enshrines sporadic residues of approximations between these vowels , for example in doublets of the type strop/strap , catch/ketch , but there has been a good deal of dispute about EModE evidence for overlap and merger in this part of the vowel-system . |
| 30 | Less is known however about the impact of second homes on the local environment , and although there has been a good deal of speculation about their impacts , as shown in Table 7.5 , there are few hard or agreed empirical data to back this up . |