Example sentences of "[verb] be a [adv] good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We 've been completely ignored for a long time , which has been a pretty good thing because it 's given us time to develop , ’ beams Brett . |
| 2 | Firstly , the Perpetual High Income which has been a consistently good performer from a good fund management group ; then Mercury 's European Income Fund on the basis that it is probably a very good time to invest in Europe , with interest rates about to fall there . |
| 3 | Wigan chairman Jack Robinson said : ‘ Andy Goodway has been a very good servant of the club . |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll have you know that Tim has been a very good friend to me over the past five years . ’ |
| 5 | So far there has been a very good response to the society , membership is climbing steadily , and many offers of help are being received . |
| 6 | Jennie West , of Catterick Garrison , said : ‘ This has been a very good course and I 've learnt a lot . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh yes , he has been a very good MP , quite a cult really and he does deserve your vote , ’ beamed Cecil . |
| 8 | THIS HAS been a very good week for fishermen and a very bad week for Findus , Bird 's Eye and all the other producers of frozen peas and pizzas . |
| 9 | That is to say that no matter how much we are improving our performance , the associations have already beaten us to it and that , Mr Mayor , I would suggest is a very good case for transferring all our stock to housing associations and there is one final point I would like to make Mr Mayor . |
| 10 | Bob , er I take it that you know the suggestion that we perhaps name the er thing , this particular thing , you know the centenary fields or something like that , you know is a very good suggestion , but I think perhaps the council ought to do something . |
| 11 | You know , even if we had lost the Cup , it would still have been a very good year for French players . |
| 12 | ‘ My mother was always shutting herself off from reality and from nastiness ; she was idealistic , which in commercial terms may have been a very good retailing idea but which I , as a rebellious teenager , found difficult to live with . ’ |
| 13 | There was a dreadful swirling wind last night complete with lashing rain that probably put paid to what would have been a very good match ( even so it was adequate ) . |
| 14 | And something like that I thought would have been a very good solution . |
| 15 | With the extra dimension of greater personal commitment by the author , it could have been a very good book indeed . |
| 16 | This would normally have been a fairly good sign . |
| 17 | ‘ But we need someone to start pressing some buttons now — my only interest is to secure the long-term success of something which I believe is a very good event . ’ |
| 18 | We would be amazed if a child decided that , since crawling was a perfectly good way of getting around , it would n't risk falling over by trying to walk . |
| 19 | Mark Stein got one , who everyone thought was a very good game the other night . |
| 20 | Well , the University 's just admitted all its students this year , and we 've had what I think is a particularly good year . |
| 21 | Now that is w er in fact it was a pretty good It 's point nought three per cent I think of our our jobs er that we carry out that you can have you 're allowed to have an accident which I think is a fairly good rate . |
| 22 | I mean if we look at I mean the woman 's erm the portrayal of female politicians I think is a very good case in point . |
| 23 | The bullet avoids in this , well very briefly , erm about for half a dozen of them , first of all erm , I 'd like members to be aware of the increasing interest being taken by the Department of Transport in the Ipswich transportation strategy and the Ipswich traffic study before that , the predictions we have from our consultants for the year two thousand and six and particularly their interest in their own trunk road system around Ipswich and the capacity of the Orwell Bridge , so that Department of Transport in Bedford are suddenly come to life to see what 's happening and have requested access to the information we have required from previous investment and consultancy work and the panel of members , the joint panel of members Ipswich , Suffolk recently gave approval to expose for being their findings of our work to the Department of Transport , which I think is a very good move and , and only be of some valuable to us ultimately . |
| 24 | Now I think that the Good did say oh well there is a law commission report expected , but I think that you know the Good should address somewhere tha that problem of trust law and regulation should and then I did in fact on going through the report and er you know and also your own reports erm there 's the one about designation of assets you know , which I think was a very good recommendation of yours , I think the actual area of responsibilities and the wider role of actuaries was important . |
| 25 | Now I think that , that Good did say oh well , there is a Law Commission Report expected , but I think that you know that Good should address somewhere tha that problem of Trust Law and regulationship and then I did in fact on going through the report and er you know and also your own reports erm there 's the one about designation of assets you know , which I think was a very good recommendation of yours . |
| 26 | The notice to which my hon. Friend referred is a very good idea indeed . |
| 27 | The children had no complaints about the refreshments , and when it was time to leave , they decided that it had been a pretty good party . |
| 28 | It had been a really good experience for both Rachel , aged fifteen with an eleven-month-old baby , and Carol , aged fourteen and five months pregnant . |
| 29 | And I thought it really had been a very good life , a fun life , despite Ellen never having gone to bed with me , and I wondered if my father would even notice my death , then the Maggot whooped with glee , hauled back on the stick , and our plane was screaming up into the wide blue lovely bullet-free sky and the Maggot was laughing and slapping my shoulder . |
| 30 | The S.M.O. said you had been a very good night special in Hope . |