Example sentences of "have not 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Edward 's references from the construction firm when he left Panama had not been very good . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | it 's not been very good or nice for you |
| 7 | I 've noticed that some of the apples you 've been getting from Safeway have n't been very good . |
| 8 | 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 . |