Example sentences of "have [be] [verb] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company profit ( loss ) is the difference between the two sides after any capital reduction has been made good . |
| 2 | The company profit ( loss ) is the difference between the two sides after any capital reduction has been made good . |
| 3 | Salim presents himself in a light which requires the reader to be told that , although he himself has been making good , he is grieved , or affects to be , by the discovery that the slavish Metty has been getting on : ‘ You 've been very much getting on as though you 're your own man . ’ |
| 4 | He 'd been feeling good that day : finding the sweet-spot time after time , the ball coming off the racquet head with no sense of effort . |
| 5 | Perhaps they should have been using better cutlery , thought Robert , or calling Hasan ‘ sir ’ and making sure he had the best chair . |
| 6 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 7 | • It was the year , too , when I decided my fish had been eating better than I had . |
| 8 | It was then getting on for three in the morning , but in the last quarter of an hour things had been getting better . |
| 9 | " Coventry 's tenants are the worst in the country , " blurted out a Coventry councillor , But when some of his colleagues on the council , together with fellow Labour Party activists , surveyed the extent to which repairs correctly reported had been made good by the council on several large estates , they found that 70 per cent had not been carried out . |
| 10 | There is no doubt but that , if Mrs. Steed 's signature had been forged or if the non est factum plea had been made good , the case would have fallen squarely within paragraph ( g ) . |
| 11 | To know with certainty whether one 's life had been considered good or bad would be a comfort , but even more satisfying would be to find there in the book the answers to the little unsolved mysteries of everyday life ; to read what really happened clearly and truly , like a watchmaker who opens the little door in the front of a grandfather clock and looks inside . |
| 12 | He was pleased in a way that his advice had been proved good , but he did n't like the thought that a woman was catching up with him . |
| 13 | Rovers had been feeling better on Monday , November 1 , when the F.A . |
| 14 | Many local authorities have had their budgets cut by reductions in central government They 've been given better education and higher expectations , but no future . |
| 15 | I 've been away for 10 years now and I 've been doing good work and making the right decisions about the work I do . |
| 16 | ‘ Like all hospitals , we do n't have as much money as we would like but generally speaking things for us have been getting better , ’ she said . |
| 17 | A great many people have been getting good local press publicity for Medau during the summer . |
| 18 | Half of the retention would be released upon the completion of the work by the sub-contractor and the balance at the end of the ’ contract ’ maintenance period , provided that all defects in the subcontractor 's work have been made good . |
| 19 | However , she points out proudly that her films have been faring better than her rival 's at the box office . |
| 20 | This year , despite the injuries which have befallen them , and the unfortunate suspension of the experienced Kieran McKeever , Derry believe that their preparations have been going better than last year . |
| 21 | THE DARLINGTON Railway Preservation Group have been making good progress on their principal asset Standard 2MT Mogul No 78018 . |
| 22 | Outside , the Chelsea Pensioner pub would have have been doing good business if it had any drinks to sell , but it was purely decorative ; part of garden by Hereford Wyevale Garden Centre called the outer sanctum which won a silver-gilt medal . |