Example sentences of "[pron] has be a good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Although there has been a good response so far to the environmental technology innovation scheme , there are no plans to increase the current allocation of £12 million .
2 There has been a good response to Bishopton/Redmarshall School 's appeal for supplies for the needy children in the Russian town of Kostrama .
3 There has been a good reduction in the number of strikes ; we must give the Government credit where it is due .
4 It is possible to identify times when there has been a good process of consultation and use them as examples .
5 Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians .
6 There has been a good deal written about coal field culture but coal field culture is not now ( although it was very recently ) central to either of my locales .
7 There has been little sociological work on this topic but there has been a good deal of interesting history , much of it carried out under the aegis of the North East Labour History Society .
8 There has been a good deal of discussion recently of time-perspectives in industrial and economic policy , with both industry and the City being accused of ‘ short-termism ’ , sometimes in comparison with the Germans or Japanese .
9 It is generally known , of course , that standard English enshrines sporadic residues of approximations between these vowels , for example in doublets of the type strop/strap , catch/ketch , but there has been a good deal of dispute about EModE evidence for overlap and merger in this part of the vowel-system .
10 Less is known however about the impact of second homes on the local environment , and although there has been a good deal of speculation about their impacts , as shown in Table 7.5 , there are few hard or agreed empirical data to back this up .
11 But there has been a good deal less successful cross-border brand-building in the confectionery division .
12 Since its launch last November , says that there has been a good deal of interest in the scheme from all sectors of the industry and added , ‘ Through controlled and managed expansion the benefits in terms of new business to the Company are tremendous ’ .
13 For example , there has been a good deal of solid research on the changing nature of the mining industries in the Third World , once entirely and now less entirely dominated by First World TNCs .
14 There has been a good atmosphere for our last four night games .
15 Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy .
16 In every instance , Norman still somehow managed a smile , for , if nothing else , he has been a good loser .
17 ‘ The reading of it has been a good preparation for Lent as far as I am concerned : for it shows me ( through the heroine ) the special sin of abuse of intellect to which all my profession are liable , more clearly than I ever saw before .
18 It has been a good day for them .
19 Secretary Peter Masheter said : ‘ It has been a good year with membership increasing to 63 from around 40 .
20 It has been a good year to be at Stirling .
21 It has been a good time to come into the market , ’ said Steve Leroux , leasing manager .
22 It has been a good Christmas for Oxford .
23 IT has been a good Surrey Championships for Haslemere , with exceptionally good results by the youngest swimmers born in 1980 , 1981 and 1982 .
24 For Labour , it has been a good week .
25 The 32-year-old striker said : ‘ It has been a good week — one of quite a few I have had in my career .
26 In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money .
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