Example sentences of "makes a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So what makes a good walking stick ? |
| 2 | But what makes a good witch ? |
| 3 | What makes a good coach ? |
| 4 | What makes a good retailer |
| 5 | Slightly bitter-flavoured , but makes a good addition to winter salads . |
| 6 | This is Stone and he 's got round Lewis and done well here Stone and the goalkeeper makes a good interception in the near post . |
| 7 | ‘ It makes a good shroud . ’ |
| 8 | You 've done a lot of the work for us , I 'm very appreciative to , of this , I 'm glad to say you have , in terms of sussing out what makes a good press release , if only because you 've found out what makes a bad press release . |
| 9 | Have you ever taken the time to ask parents what makes a good school ? |
| 10 | He says that he 's looking for birds preening or doing something which makes a good composition . |
| 11 | What makes a good reading ? |
| 12 | Dining at ease inside a dragon makes a good symbol of the harnessing of mighty powers of nature for man 's comfort , or perhaps of pride coming before a fall . |
| 13 | There is little industry except the old dog mill which now makes plastic chairs and the new brewery which brews real ale , but being surrounded by the power stations of Drax , Eggborough , Ferrybridge and Thorpe Marsh , it makes a good base for power station workers , who can move for promotion without uprooting their families . |
| 14 | The juice also makes a good base for a sweet and sour sauce . |
| 15 | Kendal , to the east of Windermere , is just outside the Lake District National Park and so makes a good base to visit the rest of the region . |
| 16 | Aspirant hippies will find that Glastonbury makes a good base to take day walks from ( after having stocked up on crystals ) . |
| 17 | Schaffhausen makes a good base for an exploration of this part of Switzerland . |
| 18 | And yet Penzias makes a good case for the new golden age , and his urbane discourse is both enlivening and instructive . |
| 19 | Commissions and Collaborations makes a good case for the BBC 's role as a patron of the arts — not only for respectable institutions like the Proms , but works that may be difficult , controversial , fey , or just not very successful . |
| 20 | Johnson ( loc. cit. ) indeed , makes a good case for the mosaic as a product of a group of mosaicists based at Ilchester — an argument which , even if not accepted in detail ( section 4.8 ) , reminds us of the important affinities between this mosaic and others to the south . |
| 21 | The best bookshop is the Librairie Européenne in Brussels , while the London School of Economics bookshop in London makes a good second . |
| 22 | Chamomile makes a good lawn , provided it does not have too much traffic on it , but should be used for small areas , as it needs constant attention to keep weeds at bay , but it will have the advantage of remaining green in dry conditions . |
| 23 | Stripped or new brick makes a good kitchen background , so does tongue-and-groove wood panelling or panelling of wide wooden planks . |
| 24 | She 's finding out what makes a good driver . |
| 25 | It makes a good spawning medium , my fish spawned this spring and none of them lost a single scale . |
| 26 | I tell you what we have n't got onto at all yet , and it 's something I said we would try and talk about wh which is what what makes a good parent ? |
| 27 | Is it possible to define what makes a good parent ? |
| 28 | I am often asked what makes a good day for bolting rabbits , bearing in mind that on some occasions they will readily leave the ground regardless of surface conditions , whereas at other times — often under what appear to be favourable conditions — they just can not be budged . |
| 29 | A paved or cement area next to the pit makes a good surface for sand castles and another paved area , at a little distance from the pit , to use as a dumping place for sand-filled trucks , encourages imaginative play . |
| 30 | In China , some 7 million biogas plants consume human and food waste , providing gas and a nitrogen-rich sludge which makes a good fertiliser . |