Example sentences of "[pron] would have made a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things . |
| 2 | On the other hand , if tomorrow I confirm a speculative theory implying that the gravitational attraction between two bodies depends on their temperature , falsifying Newton 's theory in the process , I would have made a significant contribution to scientific knowledge . |
| 3 | A FINE AIRCRAFT , which would have made a good strategic bomber . |
| 4 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 5 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 6 | Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier . |
| 7 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
| 8 | In the hospital , sitting up for the first time in several days , he had watched the doctor anointing an old man who would have made a superb St Jerome : ‘ a thin , long , sinewy brown wrinkled body with such very distinct and expressive joints that it makes one melancholy not to be able to have him for a model . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
| 10 | Did you ever feel after having your own children that er you would have made a better midwife erm this experience than when you were single ? |
| 11 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path . |
| 12 | Had we been allowed to continue I believe we would have made a significant improvement to the path ; certainly the comments of passers-by were very favourable , most saying it was high time something was done , that the path was in a shocking state , etc . |
| 13 | No doubt he would have made a nasty remark , and she did n't need to hear any more of them . |
| 14 | He would have made a great dramatic actor . |
| 15 | Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history . |
| 16 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 17 | He was always so quick witted and courageous was John that I always thought he would have made a good secret agent — a James Bond kind of figure . |
| 18 | He would have made a good bad Roman Emperor . |
| 19 | He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier . |
| 20 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 21 | He would have made a marvellous Wozzeck . |
| 22 | That much is clear from the standard of his labels ; he would have made a poor museum curator ! |
| 23 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
| 24 | If it did act , it would have made a jurisdictional error and its decision would be a nullity . |
| 25 | It would have made a compact little home except it was painted dark brown like the corridors . |
| 26 | Indeed , it would have done some good to have one when he was Chancellor of the Exchequer , as it would have made a significant difference to some of the measures that he took , which stoked the fires of inflation . |
| 27 | No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it … |