Example sentences of "have been very good " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The deal has been very good for football , ’ he says , ‘ and I believe that television is going to be accepted as a very important tool in the game 's administration . |
| 2 | ‘ Driver acceptance too has been very good and it looks like the misconception that diesels are dirty , slow and smelly is a thing of the past . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ This hospital has been very good to me . |
| 4 | I can honestly say that every audience I 've ever had has been very good , except , perhaps , for a school for the mentally handicapped we visited once where one or two started turning round and talking whilst I was speaking . |
| 5 | ‘ In any case I was born in World 's End , everyone there has been very good to me . ’ |
| 6 | It has been very good all the way . |
| 7 | The doctor , my own doctor has been very good and very kind and helpful , but er , I know of no other support group other than Crossroads , who help people like me . |
| 8 | From left the Virago team , Lennie Goodings , 20th year ‘ mascot ’ Ethel Merman ( ‘ Broadway has been very good to me — but then I 've been very good to Broadway ’ ) , Harriet Spicer and Fiona McIntosh . |
| 9 | " His mother has been very good to me . " |
| 10 | To be in a position were you have to say that someone 's mother has been very good to you — that 's ridiculous ! |
| 11 | No the experience has been very good you know , going through life all that time . |
| 12 | Discipline has been very good indeed so far . |
| 13 | It has been very good experience for my future career . ’ |
| 14 | Turning to , turning to entertainment and media investments er , it was a very tough year for the Tussaud group and starting with the er , Gulf War er , and erm , the only Tussaud business that , that does a lot of business in the first quarter is erm , Marylebone Road and you may remember that the Gulf War caused foreign tourists to stop coming to London and er , also erm , British tourists stopped coming to London and during that time attendances were actually twenty five percent down , so the recovery from there is , has been very good . |
| 15 | On that , I think it is generally known , that we , that Telford was n't anywhere near the top of the list , and it had been taken purely on the question of the er , needs of the various areas , it 's unlikely that Telford would have succeeded , even with its reduced geographical area , but I made discrete enquiries and was told that the factor which tipped er , the Commission in favour of Telford , and this has an important bearing on what we 're going to discuss later , was the fact that Telford has been very good in taking up schemes and providing their section , and not just the Wreakin District Council , other area , other bodies in Telford , of getting good innovative schemes off the ground and providing the cash , they did n't , as some areas did , get the status , and then hardly do anything about it . |
| 16 | ‘ The response has been very good , ’ he says . |
| 17 | Mr Milburn said : ‘ The response to the magazine has been very good . |
| 18 | My brother actually , Michael has been very good he still sees erm cos he 's always friends with and they 're really good friends . |
| 19 | Well there were the jobs tha that I mentioned really , production manager or assistant director and now he would have been quite happy I know to have done those , because I remember talking about it you know er and he would have been very good at either of them , but erm er he he did n't get well he was a slightly abrasive man , he he he his erm I I think in a way erm he was a director who could who was not really a very good film director , he he could get things done very quickly and that 's why he worked for bash , bash , bash getting through everything quickly . |
| 20 | The football might n't have been very good but it was a great time , magic . |
| 21 | They might have been very good , but they have n't given you this new life , this new birth John , er Nicodemus , you 've got to be born again . |
| 22 | When I first saw it , when I was looking at it , I was amazed at these huge great hooks and eyes , and I thought ‘ gosh , they ca n't have been very good at making hooks and eyes if they had to make them so big ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ He had been very good while I was pregnant . |
| 24 | The previous one , 1975 , had been very good , especially the latter part , but that one , the summer of Hilbert 's death and of Ecalpemos , had been glorious from April till September . |
| 25 | Then the telephone rang , and the director said he had been very good , and did he like päte1 ? |
| 26 | The department 's ‘ O ’ Level results had been very good the previous year and he had had a letter of congratulation from the Assistant Education Officer responsible for the school . |
| 27 | You 've been very good with the children , I would n't deny that . |
| 28 | You 've been very good to me . |
| 29 | From left the Virago team , Lennie Goodings , 20th year ‘ mascot ’ Ethel Merman ( ‘ Broadway has been very good to me — but then I 've been very good to Broadway ’ ) , Harriet Spicer and Fiona McIntosh . |
| 30 | I 've been very good . |