Example sentences of "it [verb] [been] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ 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 . |
2 | It has been a good day for them . |
3 | Secretary Peter Masheter said : ‘ It has been a good year with membership increasing to 63 from around 40 . |
4 | It has been a good year to be at Stirling . |
5 | ‘ It has been a good time to come into the market , ’ said Steve Leroux , leasing manager . |
6 | It has been a good Christmas for Oxford . |
7 | IT has been a good Surrey Championships for Haslemere , with exceptionally good results by the youngest swimmers born in 1980 , 1981 and 1982 . |
8 | For Labour , it has been a good week . |
9 | The 32-year-old striker said : ‘ It has been a good week — one of quite a few I have had in my career . |
10 | But it 'd been a good day last year , on the Monday holiday , and they had needed two coaches you see . |
11 | Would it have been a good tactic to try and exploit adult hostility towards this group on account of their delinquent activities , rather than highlight their racist involvements which clearly did have a measure of adult support ? |
12 | But would n't it have been a good idea to ask a relative or neighbour to go with her or to look after the children who were not going to receive attention ? |
13 | Paula Kahn , chairman and chief executive of Longman Group , commented that it had been a good year for Longman ‘ despite the impact of the recession in some of our key markets around the world , particularly our ELT markets in Europe ’ . |
14 | It had been a good year for Kenneth personally , too . |
15 | In Norwich , Christmas was ‘ reasonable but not exceptional ’ for Jarrolds , according to Barbara Gaskin , but it had been a good year and will see Jarrolds 8% up on 1991 . |
16 | But it had been a good day . |
17 | Lugh was not sure , now , if it had been a good idea to bring Dorrainge . |
18 | His huge opponent lay defeated and bloodied , and his blood-lust was more than satisfied ; it had been a good night and it was time to go . |
19 | It had been a good lunch and conversation had been light and easy . |
20 | It was a crap heap , really by the time he 'd got it , but you know , it had been a good car . |
21 | It was just bad luck for the second man that it had been a good place . |
22 | Yet the Chelsea manager , Bobby Campbell , and Arsenal assistant , Theo Foley , agreed it had been a good match , and the spectators ' complaints were muted . |
23 | It had been a good joke . |
24 | It had been a good dinner and the réserve maison had sent pleasant messages around her system , signifying that after the adventures of the day , all was now well . |
25 | Mr. O'Callaghan said it had been a good contest and the closeness in the result showed how evenly the teams were matched . |
26 | But she thought well it 's been a good experience anyway and she tho felt that she 'd played her pieces well erm |
27 | IT 'S been a good year for German neo-Nazis . |
28 | ‘ It 's been a good year , ’ he nodded . |
29 | William says that he wants to win and then hopefully look towards the world championship and then the next Europeans … it 's been a good year so far so he hopes it ends like that anyway |
30 | It 's been a good year for holly berries , and the crop on sale today attracted buyers from all over Britain . |