Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] [art] 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 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 ? ’
8 I was forced to concede B&B had been a good idea !
9 It was by now that and I wondered whether chilli had been a good choice for a hot meal .
10 The parable concludes with Jesus making the lawyer admit that the Samaritan had been a good neighbour .
11 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 ) .
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