Example sentences of "have [adv] [been] very good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Britain has not been very good at getting the ideas out of universities . |
| 2 | Our experience of multilingual and multinational federations has not been very good . |
| 3 | I 've played many neck-through-body instruments before and sustain has generally been very good , but here it is nothing short of remarkable . |
| 4 | I 'd never been very good at big lies , and the thought of living one terrified me , but it was important that not only I , but the baby , should have some self-respect about its origins . |
| 5 | Bryant and Bradley chose 65 of the children who had not been very good at categorising sounds at the beginning of the study and divided them into four groups . |
| 6 | Edward 's references from the construction firm when he left Panama had not been very good . |
| 7 | I 've never been very good at rejecting people , so I told him I was frigid . |
| 8 | The fact is , I 've never been very good at meeting people . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've never been very good at school , ’ she said in a bored voice . |
| 10 | I 've never been very good at it , but I do try . |
| 11 | The ones appointed to do the job had never been very good at it , but he had heard a rumour that Horemheb was training a secret corps of police , answering to him alone but set up in the pharaoh 's name and in the interests of national security . |
| 12 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 13 | it 's not been very good or nice for you |
| 14 | Well , I say , he 's always been very good at that . |
| 15 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 16 | 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 . |