Example sentences of "been good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 It 's been good talking to you .
2 The £90 invested in baking ingredients was soon seen to have been good sterdship , for the unfailing supply of beautiful baking was a marvel .
3 There may have been good reasons of prudence in all this .
4 In doing so I like to think that we had been good ambassadors for the Department ; I know we all enjoyed every minute of the three hectic months .
5 Even in Palestine , where the Persians had been good rulers , there had been troubles , if our confused evidence is to be trusted at all ( c .
6 There have always been good maths teachers who 've made maths interesting and relevant to the children , but I think perhaps the emphasis has shifted from rote learning to helping children to understand what they 're doing .
7 Taylor said : ‘ The FA have always been good employers to all the previous managers who have suffered as I am suffering the kind of criticism that is about .
8 Paul had been good company .
9 ‘ There 've been good things and bad things , but I 've survived .
10 There have not been good things .
11 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 .
12 There 's been good luck though , for Steve Bennett of Ross on Wye .
13 This had been good fortune , as they had not been aware that it was a ‘ protected ’ aircraft , but Carrington arranged in any case for the record of their flight to be blotted from the squadron 's sortie book .
14 In his second day of evidence before Sheriff Brian Lockhart , he said that that would have been good management .
15 THE PAST three dry years have not been good ones for young trees .
16 But I believe that the decisions made to go on the trips this autumn have been good ones .
17 But I believe that the decisions made to go on the trips this autumn have been good ones .
18 You 've been good girls and worked hard for us , and I wish you luck . ’
19 ‘ Len and I have always been good mates .
20 and it 's been good fun , they do want to come back
21 Mark Whiteside ( 18 ) , said he had only recently started modelling but that it had all been good fun .
22 It 's been good fun .
23 Good times , yes , they had been good times
24 Because they 've been good boys we 've helped them extend their landholdings and they lease it back to their own peasants at exorbitant rates — that 's why their own people call them pirates . "
25 In a world where few computer companies have been good computer users , IBM 's increasing tendency to practise what it preaches has helped maintain its advantage .
26 He and Peter have always been good friends and David is the type of lad that once he 's made friends with someone , he has made it for life , ’ says Brian Gedge .
27 Much of this success is due to the commitment of our helpers , nay of who have been good friends over a considerable number of years ; others are regular helpers at our playgroup and youth club sessions throughout the year and are established ‘ old friends ’ before the holidays begin .
28 ‘ She and Phillip had been good friends since the 40s .
29 They had been good friends , had helped each other over the years .
30 During their schooldays at Eton , Johnnie Spencer and the Earl of Dartmouth had been good friends .
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