Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] be a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In retrospect he said that he felt that the review had been a good thing for the department . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The article in the Financial Times to which the hon. Gentleman referred was a good article . |
| 4 | It was just like the books said — all a man needed was a good technique . |
| 5 | I was forced to concede B&B had been a good idea ! |
| 6 | It was by now that and I wondered whether chilli had been a good choice for a hot meal . |
| 7 | The parable concludes with Jesus making the lawyer admit that the Samaritan had been a good neighbour . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |