Example sentences of "have been [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | Up to now , there has been no good explanation for why the observed value should by so small . |
| 2 | The four year hiatus has been a good old-fashioned period of reappraisal ; he 's learnt to become a good father , he says , while the composing has flourished . |
| 3 | For Labour , it has been a good week . |
| 4 | But another lesson I have learnt has been a good deal more unsettling . |
| 5 | In what has been a good year for poets at the conferences , with Neil Kinnock quoting both Frost and Shelley , and Kenneth Baker identifying with Henry V or Kenneth Branagh , Mr Patten chose Larkin 's observation that , with honour gone , all we could now leave to our children was money . |
| 6 | Not only has it made a very good profit , but getting a bit of the American ethos into the business has been a good thing as well . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | It has out-performed other European markets for most of the period , and this year has been a good 5 per cent ahead . |
| 9 | His defeat is as certain as Mr Melding 's , although his campaign has been a good deal less rough : canvassing for Labour in a prosperous south coast resort may be discouraging , but it is scarcely dangerous , unless you count the speechless stick-waving of elderly gentlefolk as assault . |
| 10 | In every instance , Norman still somehow managed a smile , for , if nothing else , he has been a good loser . |
| 11 | I had got over my nerves by then ( was even thinking Travels With My Angst might not be the most suitable title for my book ) and was able to take a more even view of the handsome tour guide who had confessed to me , ‘ This has been a good trip for me . |
| 12 | Many librarians have written in to protest at what has been happening and there has been a good deal of debate behind closed doors ; but , as will be shown here , the ultimate explanation is the rise of semi-literacy and the acceptance of it by the modern descendants of the great Victorians . |
| 13 | And the Cid assembled his chief captains and knights and people , and said unto them , Kinsmen and friends and vassals , hear me : to-day has been a good day , and to-morrow shall be a better day . |
| 14 | IT has been a good Surrey Championships for Haslemere , with exceptionally good results by the youngest swimmers born in 1980 , 1981 and 1982 . |
| 15 | ‘ It has been a good time to come into the market , ’ said Steve Leroux , leasing manager . |
| 16 | The 32-year-old striker said : ‘ It has been a good week — one of quite a few I have had in my career . |
| 17 | ‘ This has been a good test for his knee and we do n't think it is a big problem . |
| 18 | ‘ He is a decent fellow , and has been a good skipper . |
| 19 | For us the fertilizer business has been a good business , in many parts of the world over many years , and even its downturns have been of fairly limited duration . |
| 20 | But , gentlemen , of this I am certain , the Conservative Party has been a good thing for this country and it is our business today , and as long as we can , to keep that Party solid ; and if splits must come , to delay them as long as we possibly can ( Applause ) . |
| 21 | There has been a good deal written about coal field culture but coal field culture is not now ( although it was very recently ) central to either of my locales . |
| 22 | There has been little sociological work on this topic but there has been a good deal of interesting history , much of it carried out under the aegis of the North East Labour History Society . |
| 23 | There has been a good deal of discussion recently of time-perspectives in industrial and economic policy , with both industry and the City being accused of ‘ short-termism ’ , sometimes in comparison with the Germans or Japanese . |
| 24 | It is generally known , of course , that standard English enshrines sporadic residues of approximations between these vowels , for example in doublets of the type strop/strap , catch/ketch , but there has been a good deal of dispute about EModE evidence for overlap and merger in this part of the vowel-system . |
| 25 | Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy . |
| 26 | Less is known however about the impact of second homes on the local environment , and although there has been a good deal of speculation about their impacts , as shown in Table 7.5 , there are few hard or agreed empirical data to back this up . |
| 27 | But there has been a good deal less successful cross-border brand-building in the confectionery division . |
| 28 | I know she is old and wo n't last forever , but she has been a good and loyal friend to me and I will stand by her . |
| 29 | Driving to the sterilised zone in which the malais had reconstructed a thatched Danuese village complete with miniature ricebarns , one of the two Americans turned and said to me : ‘ Sir , tell me , truly , do you think the Integration has been a good thing for your country ? ’ |
| 30 | Secretary Peter Masheter said : ‘ It has been a good year with membership increasing to 63 from around 40 . |