Example sentences of "[noun] have be a good [noun sg] " 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 Above all , the result of privatization in transport has been a better service to the public .
9 Might Tavaré have been a better choice as captain ( than Willis ) in 1982 ?
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 Will Oxford have been a good background for the US Presidency ?
12 Over one year , while seven funds beat the sector on the basis of £10 a month invested , with the best performing fund — Friends Provident Stewardship North American — now worth £168.89 , the rest fall below the average , although in no cases would the building society have been a better bet .
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 I was forced to concede B&B had been a good idea !
15 It was by now that and I wondered whether chilli had been a good choice for a hot meal .
16 But they sent it first and most often to Faramir , who would no doubt have been a better choice .
17 The parable concludes with Jesus making the lawyer admit that the Samaritan had been a good neighbour .
18 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 ) .
19 If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman .
20 Otto 's been a good friend to you over the years . ’
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