Example sentences of "have [been] [vb pp] [prep] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we are satisfied that this stage of the transaction has been completed in good faith , you will receive the rest of the items through the post . ’ |
| 2 | In a very different context from California this same strategy has been applied to good effect . |
| 3 | Moreover , the courts will only uphold an expulsion where the power has been exercised in good faith in the interests of the firm . |
| 4 | This statement and the Declaration as a whole has been claimed on good authority as ‘ the most controversial document of the whole Council ’ ( J. Courtney Murray : Abbott , p. 673 ) . |
| 5 | This drug has been used to good effect in generalized viral infections , when it can be injected directly into the blood stream , but this is not without hazard and is not indicated unless the infection is life-threatening . |
| 6 | Both styles are well finished , a satin stain/varnish has been used to good effect , the eye is well placed high on the body and on all of the floats I received was free of varnish . |
| 7 | This worthwhile cause has been chosen as Good Housekeeping 's Charity of the Year 1992 |
| 8 | Wall-mounted time-keeping with a Vertical Sundial has been launched by Good Directions . |
| 9 | Already that money has been put to good use . |
| 10 | The new park planting etcetera really enhances the area , so that 's nice to hear from the Civic Society , and they 're also saying that er they 're grateful for the newspaper collection , which their office is thinking has been put to good use . |
| 11 | Kingsholm has been starved of good tries this season so the locals must have really enjoyed this one … |
| 12 | We believe that we 're entitled to represent the interests of the vendor ; indeed , I 'm sure that this picture has been sold in good faith several times since 1945 . |
| 13 | In each case there were criticisms that each could have been prevented by better safety measures and checking . |
| 14 | The few hundred Australians on Timor had also contributed to the Japanese conviction that the island was to be re-occupied by the Allies , and the enemy reinforced his garrison with men of the 48 Division in the autumn of 1942 when these forces might have been employed to better effect against the Allies on New Guinea and elsewhere . |
| 15 | The consequence of those legal manoeuvres is to deny other London boroughs a massive capital receipt which could have been put to good use on behalf of charge payers . |
| 16 | But Finniston still harbours the belief that the wealth of experience he acquired during his ten years at British Steel could have been put to better service for the nation . |
| 17 | As far as national activities are concerned we have the greatest difficulty in getting a delegate to attend the tri-annual meeting in Birmingham this year and many members thought the money spent could have been put to better use . |
| 18 | That weapon may have been used to good effect against the Scots who were defeated at Falkirk in July 1298 . |
| 19 | All these unfortunate factors could have been avoided through good education and adequate nutrition . |
| 20 | Assume that goods became loose in rough seas either because of improper lashing or because of heavy seas that could have been avoided with better navigation . |
| 21 | The good news is , therefore , that despite having been beaten by better sides , improvements are certainly to be expected . |
| 22 | All we can say is that assurances were given , and that for a short time they were accepted as having been given in good faith ; but they were not honoured . |
| 23 | It looked to have been wasted for good in 1990 when , after struggling to overcome injuries and failing exams , he packed up and returned home to Teesside . |
| 24 | This view will be related to the determinate sentence that would have been passed but for the element of mental instability and/or public risk which led the judge to pass a life sentence and will also take account of the notional period of the sentence which a prisoner might expect to have been remitted for good behaviour had a determinate sentence been passed . |
| 25 | " In many of the projects surveyed , consultation with affected populations and local non-governmental organisations ( NGOs ) had been limited at best . |
| 26 | John Lydon — the punk nomenclature had been banished for good — remained contracted to Virgin with his new group , Public Image Ltd ( PIL ) , as did Paul Cook and Steve Jones , who recorded briefly under the name the Bollock Brothers . |
| 27 | The call had been made in good faith : a car had looked as though it might turn over , but in the event it had not . |
| 28 | When the boys had been placed in good schools , William and Isabella spent much of their time travelling in Britain and Continental Europe . |
| 29 | These had been used to good effect by the PRD in the presidential elections of July 1988 , when the PRD candidate Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano had accused the PRI of indulging in blatant electoral fraud to deny him victory [ see pp. 36367-69 ] . |
| 30 | He had an impulse to say , ‘ This is the music of 1988 ; these are our heroes ; that building on the headland is our architecture and I dare not stop my car to help children home because they 've been taught with good reason that a strange man might abduct and rape them . ’ |