Example sentences of "have not been [adv] 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 | ‘ No doubt business is better than last year but it has not been as good as many people suggested it might be , ’ he said . |
| 4 | I mentioned the reduction in unemployment that has taken place in Holyhead , and , while the decrease has not been as good there as in some other areas , the announcements that I made this morning gave a priority to Holyhead . |
| 5 | We 're a bit understocked anyway — business has n't been so good since the trouble started . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Edward 's references from the construction firm when he left Panama had not been very good . |
| 8 | Their day , however , had not been that good ; they had put in many hours of searching and had only made two finds of any note . |
| 9 | They had not been so good to her ; she had lost too many things , too many friends , too much of herself . |
| 10 | Perhaps Leila 's family had not been quite good enough for him . |
| 11 | we 've not , we 've not been too good at one of them |
| 12 | Numbers have not been too good and although last sing-a-long was not a total washout financially speaking , he feels a good attendance and atmosphere are more important . |
| 13 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could have been in producing statistically valid trials . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ We have not been as good as we could be in doing statistically valid trials ’ |
| 15 | I have to be honest and say that the last few years have not been as good as I would have expected . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | it 's not been very good or nice for you |
| 18 | Well mainly cos of me mum of an evening , cos she 's not been too good , so I 've been up and down . |
| 19 | In oth other words , there have n't been particularly good value acquisitions that are strategically suitable for us . |
| 20 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 21 | 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 . |