Example sentences of "[noun sg] have [been] 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 | 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 | Above all , the result of privatization in transport has been a better service to the public . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ? ’ |
| 10 | I was forced to concede B&B had been a good idea ! |
| 11 | It was by now that and I wondered whether chilli had been a good choice for a hot meal . |
| 12 | But they sent it first and most often to Faramir , who would no doubt have been a better choice . |
| 13 | The parable concludes with Jesus making the lawyer admit that the Samaritan had been a good neighbour . |
| 14 | 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 ) . |
| 15 | 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 . |