Example sentences of "[noun] have [be] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The competitive procurement policy of the Ministry of Defence has been good news not only for the Ministry and the taxpayer but for the yards . |
| 2 | Since the campaign broke in the Financial Times on 20 September — and with subsequent adverts in the Daily Telegraph and The Times a few days later — response has been good . |
| 3 | The denationalisation programme has been good not only for the consumer , but for share owning and the improvement of both investment and wealth in this country . |
| 4 | We do not actually know , of course , if this effect has been good or bad ; but the tourists keep coming , potential undergraduates keep applying and companies do relocate into the area . |
| 5 | ‘ Arthritis has been good to Arthur ’ |
| 6 | General feedback to the town hall from shoppers had been good , he said , with most people welcoming the lack of traffic at peak times , particularly on High Row . |
| 7 | Looking at games individually the performances have been good , and results good ( ‘ cept QPR ) . |
| 8 | The continuing strength of the dollar has been good for the group , as many shipbuilding and most shipping contracts are priced in dollars , and both Finland and Norway have gained a competitive edge against both the US and Germany . |
| 9 | The marriage had been good , he said , for two or three years and then they drifted towards the rocks until they were agreed on only one thing , their incompatibility . |
| 10 | The boy had been good . |
| 11 | Well , but the child had been good and she would not deprive her of saying to her friends on Monday ‘ I went to the fair ’ . |
| 12 | In a world where few computer companies have been good computer users , IBM 's increasing tendency to practise what it preaches has helped maintain its advantage . |
| 13 | Keith says Shaunagh has been good for him . |
| 14 | On balance , I believe that Britain 's membership of the EEC has been of some benefit in terms of the home market which she has gained and will continue to gain as and when her partners honour their commitments to complete the Single Market ; however , as should be clear from the figures quoted in Chapter 5 , the assertion that EEC membership has been good for Britain is open to question . |
| 15 | What is beyond question is that British membership has been good for the EEC ; not only do British taxpayers and consumers bear the cost of the CAP , the CFP , the Common External Tariff and the Cohesion budget , but Britain constitutes an artificial captive market for the exporters of the Eleven . |
| 16 | ‘ While our batting has been good , the bowling has been steady rather than dynamic , which is why we have n't been bowling sides out a second time , ’ reasons Fraser . |
| 17 | So far his aim has been good . |
| 18 | ‘ Our wine has been good , but it is not and never will be one of the great classic vintages of , say , the Bordeaux region . |
| 19 | Business had been good in the few weeks she had been in charge , but she was astute enough to realise that many of the customers had been coming to the club simply to see her . |
| 20 | Edward G. Robinson had been good in the previous year 's Little Caesar and there was to be great acclaim for the explicitness of the following year 's Scarface but it was Cagney 's 1931 performance in The Public Enemy that occasioned the most significant debate . |
| 21 | Professionally the years had been good to him , though it was a great disappointment to Maud that he had specialized in diseases of the mind . |
| 22 | The return of the Emperor to France and the subsequent declaration of war had been good for Harper 's trade ; a good hunter stolen from a Protestant plantation in Ireland would fetch a prime price in England where so many officers equipped themselves for the campaign . |
| 23 | And the past few years have been good years of course |
| 24 | He said : ‘ It is the case that landings of fish have been good recently and that has depressed the price of fish at the market . |
| 25 | The take-up of this new procedure has been good . |
| 26 | Coverage in both dimensions has been good . |
| 27 | Since the argument ended , Mr. Beloff has been good enough to send us , by agreement with the other parties to Miss Calder 's application , extracts from the works of two legal historians who venture to express opinions on the legal position after 1873 . |
| 28 | Once again , it 's flagging below a level which would give him confidence for London , yet his form over shorter distances has been good , highlighted recently by a new course record of 38:20 at the Thorney 12K in Peterborough . |
| 29 | On this , as on other issues , the outcome of the Government actions has been good , even if its motives for seeking the reforms are suspect . |
| 30 | But Major , Patten , Douglas Hurd , Kenneth Clarke , and even Michael Heseltine , were left with no choice but to argue that Thatcherism had been good for Britain . |