Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] make a good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge .
2 Thomas and Ell seemed to make a good couple .
3 Although he is cautious about predicting how rapidly or how strongly profits will grow in 1993 , he believes the UK business has made a good start to the year , with revenues from both consulting and recruitment ahead of budget .
4 Tuathal had made a good job , then , of his ambush .
5 My hon. Friend has made a good point .
6 My hon. Friend has made a good point .
7 Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case .
8 But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other .
9 The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity .
10 Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development .
11 Lurking behind all this in Mary 's case is , of course , the notion of the gentler sex , with all that entails ; if nice men made bad kings , because successful kingship meant toughness and ruthlessness , how could the more emotional , gentler female hope to make a good queen ?
12 Founded and endowed by Leo Bonn , a deaf merchant banker and financier , the bureau had made a good start , but went into decline during the war .
13 Even those students intending to make a good copy of their rough essay may plan their writing .
14 And perhaps most fundamental of all , we have to try to live and teach according to our ideals , and to promote them , whilst at the same time trying to make a good career within a system that seems at many points to be based on quite antagonistic values .
15 Bowsher and his colleagues have made a good case for paradoxical pain being the result of a genetic inability to metabolise morphine to the potent morphine-6-glucuronide , leaving large quantities of morphine-3-glucuronide ( a putative morphine antagonist or a non-specific cerebral stimulant , or both ) unopposed .
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