Example sentences of "been a good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Chelsea manager , Bobby Campbell , and Arsenal assistant , Theo Foley , agreed it had been a good match , and the spectators ' complaints were muted . |
| 2 | This plan came to grief , however , when Waters , in an attempt to establish friendly relations , gave a prospective producer a copy of one of his books , which showed the idiosyncratic director palling up with one of Charles Manson 's gang — a gesture which was in even worse taste than it might sound , as the producer proved to have been a good friend of one of the gang 's victims . |
| 3 | The four year hiatus has been a good old-fashioned period of reappraisal ; he 's learnt to become a good father , he says , while the composing has flourished . |
| 4 | For Labour , it has been a good week . |
| 5 | But another lesson I have learnt has been a good deal more unsettling . |
| 6 | In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money . |
| 7 | Thompson 's career — the Daley record 1976 Olympic Games ( Montreal ) 18th 1977 European Juniors , 1st 1978 Commonwealth Games ( Edmonton ) lst European Championships ( Prague ) 2nd 1980 Olympic Games ( Moscow ) 1st World record ( Gotzis ) 8,648 pts 1982 World record ( Gotzis ) 8,730 pts European Championships ( Athens ) lst World record 8,774 Commonwealth Games , Brisbane , lst 1983 World Championships ( Helsinki ) lst 1984 Olympic Games ( Los Angeles ) lst World record 8,847 1986 Commonwealth Games ( Edinburgh ) lst European Championships ( Stuttgart ) lst 1987 World Championships ( Rome ) 9th 1988 Olympic Games ( Seoul ) 4th It has not been a good year for the class of ‘ 76 . |
| 8 | If Bernie had n't been around we would have been a band , and we would have been a good band but we would n't have been the band . |
| 9 | Not only has it made a very good profit , but getting a bit of the American ethos into the business has been a good thing as well . |
| 10 | You 've been a good friend but unfortunately this is not going to be enough to help your friend . |
| 11 | ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before . |
| 12 | With 80 per cent of the seats in the arena again empty , it might have been a good opportunity to bus in the LTA 's young hopefuls to see for themselves what success in the game requires . |
| 13 | Publishing the old figures compiled from Job Centres , said Mr Hibbert , alongside the new ones might have been a good idea just to show how misleading the old ones had been . |
| 14 | The year 1962 had not been a good one for Macmillan : his domestic policies had started to go awry ; the application to join the EEC was unpopular ; his showing in the opinion polls had slumped to 36 per cent ; in July he had sacked one-third of his cabinet , fearing a revolt against his leadership ; in October he was seen to play little part in the Cuban missile crisis , in which Kennedy alone took the decisions that could have drawn Britain , whether she liked it or not , into nuclear war between the superpowers ; and in December it was becoming clear that de Gaulle was blocking the EEC entry negotiations . |
| 15 | IT SHOULD have been a good week . |
| 16 | He lay down on the bed , with my mother beside him , and he died in her arms , saying : ‘ You 've been a good wife to me , Mary . ’ |
| 17 | You have been a good friend to me when there was no one else ; and you have given me back my health . |
| 18 | ‘ ' Shortly after he looked me full in the face and said , ‘ You have been a good father to me and I am persuaded we shall meet again in heaven |
| 19 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 20 | IT 'S been a good year for German neo-Nazis . |
| 21 | She had been a good woman . |
| 22 | Nevertheless , around one in two Germans in both the American and the British Zones — and a percentage on the increase — thought that National Socialism had basically been a good idea , badly carried out , and were far more favourably disposed to it than to communism . |
| 23 | Similarly Fawn Hall , asked by North to alter memoranda to conceal his work for the contras , remembered feeling uneasy : ‘ but I believe in Colonel North , and I know that there must have been a good reason why he was asking me to do this , and I — I did as I was told . ’ |
| 24 | It had been a good lunch and conversation had been light and easy . |
| 25 | It had not been a good day for liberal ideals . |
| 26 | It has out-performed other European markets for most of the period , and this year has been a good 5 per cent ahead . |
| 27 | His defeat is as certain as Mr Melding 's , although his campaign has been a good deal less rough : canvassing for Labour in a prosperous south coast resort may be discouraging , but it is scarcely dangerous , unless you count the speechless stick-waving of elderly gentlefolk as assault . |
| 28 | In every instance , Norman still somehow managed a smile , for , if nothing else , he has been a good loser . |
| 29 | ON THE eve of polling day the Prime Minister was asked whether , on reflection , it would not have been a good idea for him to have debated with Mr Kinnock on television . |
| 30 | The Derby was the first time Nijinsky started at odds against — and if his full background story had been known , the odds would have been a good deal longer . |