Example sentences of "would have made a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 If Tim had been Czar of Russia he 'd have made a better job of it than the nincompoops that were .
2 I 'd have thought you 'd have made a better job of it . ’
3 The doctors told me they had high hopes that in a year you 'd have made a full recovery .
4 ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things .
5 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 . ’
6 It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it .
7 It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics .
8 Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history .
9 Sam would have made a perfect lawyer .
10 No doubt he would have made a nasty remark , and she did n't need to hear any more of them .
11 Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 .
12 He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist .
13 She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung .
14 He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier .
15 No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it …
16 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 .
17 ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’
18 IT 'S a feat that his circus act father would have made a million bucks from , but how could Mr Major-Ball have foreseen that everything little John touched would turn into 100% pure horse-dung ?
19 This would have made a fascinating court case .
20 ‘ A Jacobite Guinea would have made a fascinating pendant to my collection .
21 He would have made a marvellous Wozzeck .
22 She studied law , was called to the Bar in 1974 , and — falling within the top 5 per cent of all people who have ever been psychometrically tested for verbal critical reasoning skills — would have made a marvellous lawyer .
23 Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier .
24 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 .
25 Such stories would have made a lasting impression on my father and given him an early interest in Abyssinia .
26 A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity .
27 In any case , a shotgun fired into the undertaker 's neck at close range would have made a real mess ; we would n't be looking at just a cupful of blood .
28 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 ?
29 She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher .
30 If it did act , it would have made a jurisdictional error and its decision would be a nullity .
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