Example sentences of "would have [verb] [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A philadelphia intellectual , Benjamin Franklin , back in his native land after a prolonged and enjoyable period in England , put down a statement of the need for political union which the conference accepted , but the colonial assemblies then rejected this plan for common defence , probably because it would have involved a good deal of extra spending . |
| 2 | If it were not , you may be sure that I would have arranged a better climate for the Brits than the Lord has seen fit to give them . ’ |
| 3 | He would have liked a good cigar . ’ |
| 4 | Television showed he was onside and under the revised law it would have stood a better chance of being allowed . |
| 5 | Opinion polls suggested throughout the campaign that Labour would have stood a better chance with the Scottish lawyer at the helm , and he has powerful support on the backbenches , especially among fellow Scots . |
| 6 | Chant would have given a good deal to break the bastard 's nose so he bled on it . |
| 7 | I would have given a good deal to have the stalwart Lord Byron by me , armed with the handgun . |
| 8 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
| 9 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 10 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 11 | He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier . |
| 12 | No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher . |
| 17 | Mildred dived for Ethel 's bench , knowing that Ethel would have made the best potion of all , and there it was , dark green and bubbling in the cauldron , with a half-full test-tube conveniently spilling a puddle of the liquid onto the bench . |
| 18 | If the title to the land had not been registered , the title of the daughter would , at worst , have been voidable , not void ; and under general principles of equity , mortgagees from the daughter in good faith and for value , without notice of the facts giving rise to the voidability , would have acquired a good title to their mortgages . |
| 19 | Any member of stab who went into the Biology Lab before her would have needed a good excuse to explain his presence there , unless , of course , he was a member of the Biology Department . |
| 20 | However , there are no easy solutions to the problems of an area such as the Highlands within the constraints of the existing national economic structure , and there is no certainty that small-scale industries would have provided a better base for employment growth . |
| 21 | I am suggesting that within the one is the other — in some respects a Chinese Box would have provided a better diagram than a polarisation continuum , although it would have been difficult to decide which box should be on the outside . |
| 22 | After an abortive attempt to merge with Standard Chartered , whose international network and weak UK base would have provided a good fit , the Midland started |
| 23 | But if he lied , saying that he came to Parfois with no felonious intent , and attacked only when he was surprised and frightened , Isambard would have won a better victory . |
| 24 | As a resident of Whaddon , and therefore presumably a member of ‘ the ex-agricultural working class ’ , I am anxious that fellow voters should not be deceived into believing that another candidate would have had a better chance of holding the seat for the Conservatives . |
| 25 | He and Whelan would have had a better chance if they had come along the floor more often , even despite the permanent ten-man claret and blue wall . |
| 26 | and what better place to say it than here — had Middleton accepted my alternative he would have had a better chance of living ; but I would question very sincerely whether he would have had a VC . |
| 27 | Even without Terence O'Neill , such claims would have had a better hearing in the 1960s than they had had in the 1920s . |
| 28 | Either Merovech or Childeric would have had a better claim to being " the first king " of the Franks . |
| 29 | If he had , he supposed that he would now have been in a much better position to help Celia , would have had a better understanding of what sometimes happened after giving birth . |
| 30 | ‘ The whole town pretended to be scandalised , but if the boot had been on the other foot — if Sidney , or anybody else for that matter , had done the same thing to Riddle — they would have had a good laugh and it would have been looked upon as good business . ’ |