Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] be a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fatima has been a good wife to you . |
| 2 | In retrospect he said that he felt that the review had been a good thing for the department . |
| 3 | Their formation has been a good thing . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Bringing the Bob Marley had been a good idea , there was n't a cheaper car in the yard , it seemed , except maybe the white Vauxhall Astra with the shirt-button wheels , a car Duncan the Drunken , in a rare lucid moment , had described as a jet-propelled tennis shoe . |
| 6 | For us the fertilizer business has been a good business , in many parts of the world over many years , and even its downturns have been of fairly limited duration . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | For most point to point is a good day out … an afternoon of country sport … the competition is keen … the racing hard and winning isn ’ t the be all and end all … for some horses and riders though this game is the first hurdle … a fence they have to jump to make the big time |
| 9 | The article in the Financial Times to which the hon. Gentleman referred was a good article . |
| 10 | Bombay has been a good ground for me in the past , but we need to put in a better performance than we have been doing . |
| 11 | It was just like the books said — all a man needed was a good technique . |
| 12 | Will Oxford have been a good background for the US Presidency ? |
| 13 | Driving to the sterilised zone in which the malais had reconstructed a thatched Danuese village complete with miniature ricebarns , one of the two Americans turned and said to me : ‘ Sir , tell me , truly , do you think the Integration has been a good thing for your country ? ’ |
| 14 | The right to buy with a duty to replace is a good housing policy , but the right to buy without a duty to replace is a housing disaster . |
| 15 | I was forced to concede B&B had been a good idea ! |
| 16 | It was by now that and I wondered whether chilli had been a good choice for a hot meal . |
| 17 | Membership of the Federation of Recruitment and Employment Services Limited is a good sign , as FRES has a code of practice which ensures the right level and number of qualified recruitment staff to assist and advise you . |
| 18 | The parable concludes with Jesus making the lawyer admit that the Samaritan had been a good neighbour . |
| 19 | What the public wanted was a good rail service and not surprisingly successive generations of British Rail managers put their major effort into achieving that . |
| 20 | The ratio of cards sent to cards received is a good measure of " contact capability " . |
| 21 | But , gentlemen , of this I am certain , the Conservative Party has been a good thing for this country and it is our business today , and as long as we can , to keep that Party solid ; and if splits must come , to delay them as long as we possibly can ( Applause ) . |
| 22 | The rage that had eaten at his guts for so long , and had launched him at Sergeant Lawrence — who even Jimmy knew was a good man at heart — would not serve him now . |
| 23 | Otto 's been a good friend to you over the years . ’ |