Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [be] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The competitive procurement policy of the Ministry of Defence has been good news not only for the Ministry and the taxpayer but for the yards . |
| 2 | Since the campaign broke in the Financial Times on 20 September — and with subsequent adverts in the Daily Telegraph and The Times a few days later — response has been good . |
| 3 | The denationalisation programme has been good not only for the consumer , but for share owning and the improvement of both investment and wealth in this country . |
| 4 | We do not actually know , of course , if this effect has been good or bad ; but the tourists keep coming , potential undergraduates keep applying and companies do relocate into the area . |
| 5 | The continuing strength of the dollar has been good for the group , as many shipbuilding and most shipping contracts are priced in dollars , and both Finland and Norway have gained a competitive edge against both the US and Germany . |
| 6 | The marriage had been good , he said , for two or three years and then they drifted towards the rocks until they were agreed on only one thing , their incompatibility . |
| 7 | The boy had been good . |
| 8 | Well , but the child had been good and she would not deprive her of saying to her friends on Monday ‘ I went to the fair ’ . |
| 9 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 10 | What is beyond question is that British membership has been good for the EEC ; not only do British taxpayers and consumers bear the cost of the CAP , the CFP , the Common External Tariff and the Cohesion budget , but Britain constitutes an artificial captive market for the exporters of the Eleven . |
| 11 | ‘ While our batting has been good , the bowling has been steady rather than dynamic , which is why we have n't been bowling sides out a second time , ’ reasons Fraser . |
| 12 | So far his aim has been good . |
| 13 | ‘ Our wine has been good , but it is not and never will be one of the great classic vintages of , say , the Bordeaux region . |
| 14 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 15 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 16 | The take-up of this new procedure has been good . |
| 17 | But Major , Patten , Douglas Hurd , Kenneth Clarke , and even Michael Heseltine , were left with no choice but to argue that Thatcherism had been good for Britain . |
| 18 | Did you get what you wanted ? ’ and a wave of feeling that the day had been good came with the words . |
| 19 | ‘ I do n't always believe people when they say that Christmas trade has been good . |
| 20 | The Lord has been good to me . ’ |
| 21 | Libraries in general have an image of unparticularized worthiness and sobriety , and many young librarians have an admirable messianic zeal about them , a firm belief that what their library has is good for people and that membership lists and issue figures must be pushed up for their own sake . |
| 22 | He agreed that this advice had been good but said that things had now gone too far . |
| 23 | It 's time to shift into top gear , to ignore the throbbing migraines and pretend that feeling jetlagged is good fun . |
| 24 | International co-operation on protecting the ozone layer has been good . |
| 25 | ‘ The spirit has been good through all these bad days we 've had lately , but it was even better today and everyone hoped the money was a sign things are turning round . ’ |
| 26 | In fact , life 's been good to both of us since we came to Swinbrook . ’ |
| 27 | This practice , which is much more common in the United States , has acquired its own descriptive term , ‘ defensive medicine ’ , a term suggestive of the notion that an unnecessary and destructive tension exists between what the doctor thinks is good medicine and what the law requires of him . |
| 28 | I think my form has been good enough . |
| 29 | ‘ The positive image has been good for business , ’ Norton says . |
| 30 | The letter says be good to your god , be good to yourself , and try to be a support for us |