Example sentences of "[noun sg] had be [prep] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | But perhaps the most crucial sign that headway was being made into new territory came when the West Somerset District Council , which included Hinkley Point , came out firmly against Hinkley C. Its influential policy committee chairman was married to a nuclear worker and its previous attitude had been at best neutral . |
| 2 | The boy had been at best lethargic , uncooperative , at worst disruptive to the point of actual physical violence . |
| 3 | ‘ If the business had been in good heart it would have cost you a great deal more . |
| 4 | For most of the leaders among the Owenites the distinction only showed itself in their recognition that the Bill had done nothing for working people ; that since the prime need , as they saw it , was to act directly to remove the evils of a system which grievously oppressed the lives of working people , the Bill had been at best an irrelevance , at worst a distraction . |
| 5 | An inquiry found that the vintage plane had been in good working order . |
| 6 | But that had been more than a dozen years ago , when Robbie 's family had been in better financial circumstances . |