Example sentences of "have been [adv] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | PC Pick said : ‘ The Freeman Hospital have been exceptionally good in giving us two heart valves to take over . ’ |
| 2 | In carefully conducted experiments , neither fat nor normal-weight subjects have been particularly good at estimating the calorie content of a meal . |
| 3 | ‘ Hampshire have been so good to me since I was a youngster here that I really want to win something again for them , ’ he says . |
| 4 | ‘ Sir , you have been so good to me that I would not leave , unless you require me to , ’ Paul said . |
| 5 | Dublin said : ‘ I hope my first goal will now help me settle and show I can score more for the club and the fans who have been so good . ’ |
| 6 | He mentioned also that " The inhabitants of the town have been so good as to rebuild me the Court wall and make some improvements in the yard , and they are very desirous for the Company to lend their aid " . |
| 7 | You have been so good to George and you deserve a little reward now that all the young people have come . |
| 8 | ‘ I wonder why you have been so good to Aunt Lavvy . |
| 9 | The second comment is that loadings on the 17.18 ex Salop train have been so good that the caterers are experimenting with extending the buffet service from Saturdays only into the week . |
| 10 | In fact we have been so good at it that we have been awarded the RCI Gold Star for the second year running . |
| 11 | It 's the same sort we had before that have been so good . |
| 12 | Our family and friends have been so generous and both sets of parents have been especially good . |
| 13 | ‘ Young thugs do n't like to know they are being watched and these cameras have been especially good at cutting down on incidents in the street , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Whilst there are no ‘ free wins ’ to be had in the Premier League ( with the possible exception of Swindon ) the teams we 've beaten have generally been struggling ( exclude Wimbledon from that — but we always seem to thrash them at home ) and those we 've drawn against have been relatively good footballing sides hence the need to comeback after going behind . |
| 15 | These will vary from Compact to Compact but you will be expected to show : a ) that your attendance and punctuality have been consistently good , b ) that you can work reliably at school , c ) that you have spent a specific amount of time on Work Experience , d ) that you have a positive sense of responsibility to your school and the wider community . |
| 16 | ‘ The news of my call-up has slowly filtered through , but all my friends have been really good about it . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ That will mean losing some players who are popular with the fans and have been really good servants of the club . |
| 18 | I went to all the lectures and they 're easy to go to , because you 're spoon-fed , they do n't sit back and they do n't philosophize , a lot of it , it 's all material on the board , which can be a bit boring sometimes , but we 've done some big course like quantum mechanics and there have been a few other theoretical ones which have been really involved but the lecturers have been really good , you can see how excited they are , and it starts spilling over to you . |
| 19 | ‘ The audiences have been really good , ’ says Amber 's Kitty Fitzgerald . |
| 20 | But if the pageboy William is talking , making noises , or turning paper napkins into darts , you could say , ‘ All the children have been as good as they could be , even little William ! ’ |
| 21 | Ladies often come to my classes and explain that they have been very good all week and yet had a binge just prior to the class ! |
| 22 | My mum and dad have been very good but I ca n't go on relying on them . ’ |
| 23 | We have been very good at burnished shellac finish and we can now add a brighter spirited-off shellac finish to enhance our fine pieces of blonde furniture . |
| 24 | They have been very good to me . ’ |
| 25 | They have been very good about it . |
| 26 | ‘ I 'm happy at Strasbourg ; they have been very good to me and next season I think we can make a big play for the French championship , ’ said Hughes . |
| 27 | In terms of erm , return to work , er , we also er have been very good , I think , in the sense that we now offer the twenty-five per cent bonus er , after pregnancy , do n't get me wrong on that , er , what happens is , people are actually recompensed , given back the money which they 've sacrificed because they 've been away from work for six months , and they get is back over the next two years . |
| 28 | ‘ The Red Rum have been very good to us , ’ said youth worker Dave Carr . |
| 29 | ‘ The passengers have been very good about it . ’ |
| 30 | Our French Canadian friends have been very good company for us ( actually , the woman , Dorothy , is Scottish by birth and upbringing ) , and we have been improving our French at the breakfast table , so even if ( as I fear ) we shall come home unable to speak more than ‘ hullo ’ ‘ goodbye ’ and ‘ thank you ’ in Chinese , at least our French will be a bit better . |