Example sentences of "make [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friends have made the good point that the Labour party is posing as the party of carbon dioxide reductions while at the same time it wants to force electricity generators to burn more coal , phase out the nuclear industry and , in its phrase , to ’ deter ’ the generators from using gas for power generation . |
| 2 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 3 | Oldham v Barnsley Dobbin , the Barnsley midfielder carried off at Blackpool in midweek , has made a good recovery from a knee injury and may play . |
| 4 | Robson , who watched Rocastle last Saturday , said : ‘ He has made a good start to the season . |
| 5 | He wondered if he 'd have made a good interior designer . |
| 6 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
| 7 | The stock dove almost disappeared from some areas , but , like other species that were hard-hit at the same time , it has since made a good recovery . |
| 8 | The South Africans nevertheless made a good start , reaching 79 for one in the 20th over , but the loss of the assured Hudson ( 50 in 66 balls ) and of Kirsten in the space of three overs left the middle order with a daunting task . |
| 9 | Two snapper per man made a good dinner . |
| 10 | You may also be shown how to guide his arm movements , if he has made a good enough recovery to practise these correctly . |
| 11 | He plays throughout Europe and North America and has made a good number of recordings . |
| 12 | They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week . |
| 13 | But Jan Peerce makes a very coarse and unromantic Alfredo , and Licia Albanese , who might have made a good shot at the role of Violetta under more sympathetic direction , sounds particularly nervous and unsettled . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The elderly lay proprietor , Miss Cordelia Claybury , had inherited the madhouse from her father who had made a good living out of the rich and insane . |
| 17 | Jonadab confirmed that the shepherd was not one for strong drink and was beginning to think that George had possibly made a good choice , when the old farmer and his wife came back along the line . |
| 18 | ‘ Thoo 's made a good choice there , Aah thinks , ’ he said grudgingly , as he and George walked across Crown Square . |
| 19 | Begin keeping a record of all events at this point ; hopefully it wo n't be needed , but if it is you 've made a good start . |
| 20 | He would have made a good bad Roman Emperor . |
| 21 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 22 | made a good sale over a bottle of stout down the lodge |
| 23 | ‘ We 've made a good beginning , ’ he said , interrupting Kate 's account of how Ginny Salperton had met David Quest . |
| 24 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |
| 25 | A London agent , apparently acting for someone anxious for an island property , had made a good offer ‘ sight unseen ’ , and Neil 's solicitors ( who knew the place and the difficulties involved ) had strongly advised him to accept it . |
| 26 | A FINE AIRCRAFT , which would have made a good strategic bomber . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | It makes demands of your skills , it will get plenty of use , it can make a handsome addition to any room and as soon as you sit down you will know whether you have made a good job . |
| 29 | He must have been sixty or so , but you had to get close to see it and if his hair was grey , someone had made a good job of disguising the fact . |
| 30 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |