Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes good [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He makes good progress until he reaches the cornice , which promptly rejects him in a cascade of cold , powdery ice .
2 In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure .
3 European manufacturers invariably make plain tiles alongside their interlocking tiles , and it makes good sense for a manufacturer to be able to offer both types of product .
4 Considering what is already known about muscle , it makes good sense .
5 At that time it makes good sense to separate males from females .
6 So , on that basis , it makes good sense to start on the bigger warrens .
7 Because none of us know when a permanently disabling accident may strike , it makes good sense to protect against the possible effects .
8 Because there were discontinuities as well as continuities , it makes good sense to say that modern chemistry emerged through a dialectical process in which the enthusiasms of the Paracelsian chemists were tempered by their critics .
9 Skills that he wishes to rehearse with them may be part of the programme of another department also , and it makes good sense to have some consultation and perhaps co-ordination .
10 And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one .
11 It makes good sense for housing associations to buy several houses in adjoining streets for ease of monitoring and staff support .
12 It makes good sense to switch over to a lighter routine , just as you adapt to the warm weather by wearing lighter fabrics .
13 If a group anticipates no response at all , a blunt refusal , or even an attack upon its very integrity , then it makes good sense to keep its political head down below the level of activity .
14 Have it written as a P E P and it makes good sense .
15 First , it makes good sense because everyone understands the language of money as a common denominator which goes across all boundaries .
16 Whether it makes good history or not is another matter .
17 It makes good business sense in another way too — because it is now cheaper to make plants that fit the pesticide than to adapt the pesticide to fit the plants .
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