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 high correlation of bursts of rapid eye movements with intense dreaming tended to encourage early investigators in their impression that the eye movements were following the actions of 70–80 per cent of vivid dreams.19 However , when blind matches of EOG records with dream narratives have been made simply on the basis of written evidence and the polygraphic record , matching of reports to records has been no better than chance . |
| 3 | Above all , the result of privatization in transport has been a better service to the public . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For Labour , it has been a good week . |
| 6 | But another lesson I have learnt has been a good deal more unsettling . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | It has out-performed other European markets for most of the period , and this year has been a good 5 per cent ahead . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In every instance , Norman still somehow managed a smile , for , if nothing else , he has been a good loser . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | IT has been a good Surrey Championships for Haslemere , with exceptionally good results by the youngest swimmers born in 1980 , 1981 and 1982 . |
| 17 | ‘ It has been a good time to come into the market , ’ said Steve Leroux , leasing manager . |
| 18 | The 32-year-old striker said : ‘ It has been a good week — one of quite a few I have had in my career . |
| 19 | ‘ This has been a good test for his knee and we do n't think it is a big problem . |
| 20 | ‘ He is a decent fellow , and has been a good skipper . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Remember , I 'm giving you this money because he has been a good boy . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | But there has been a good deal less successful cross-border brand-building in the confectionery division . |
| 30 | 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 . |