Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] be [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reeth has always been a good walking centre , particularly for walkers from Tyneside and Teesside , and on many occasions I 've heard the hills round about echoing to a sound I love so well , the lilt of Geordie accents . |
| 2 | fairclough has always been a good defender ( ex England U21 ) , but he s excellent when given a job , like marking Tony Daley out of the game . |
| 3 | Darren had always been a good and well-behaved boy but once he had returned home he had been waking repeatedly in the night and been difficult to manage in the day . |
| 4 | ‘ In England we had Morris dancing , mostly knee down , and our ballet dancers have always been the best for quick , precise footwork . |
| 5 | ( The Thatcher mug has long been a best seller . ) |
| 6 | Barry has always been the best man for the job and we 're going to continue our partnership . ’ |
| 7 | The documentation for these drawings has always been the best of any British collection of its type , and after the paring away of the greatest country house collection of drawings Chatsworth 's by the two Christie 's sales of the 1980s , Holkham remained the most important extant . |
| 8 | But Sara 's idea had obviously been the better one , he told himself , though without believing a word of it , for where would they all be now without ‘ Mama 's business venture , ’ as his stepson warmly pointed out to him on a walk round the garden this afternoon . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Gangsters have long been a good source of drama for the filmakers and there 's barely a star in Hollywood who has n't been ‘ mixed up ’ on screen with the mob at some point in his career . |