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

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1 ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things .
2 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 . ’
3 It was a fuss about nothing , and I greatly doubt whether anyone other than Randolph Churchill would have made a major issue of it .
4 It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics .
5 Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history .
6 Sam would have made a perfect lawyer .
7 No doubt he would have made a nasty remark , and she did n't need to hear any more of them .
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 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 ?
16 This would have made a fascinating court case .
17 ‘ A Jacobite Guinea would have made a fascinating pendant to my collection .
18 He would have made a marvellous Wozzeck .
19 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 .
20 Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier .
21 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 .
22 Such stories would have made a lasting impression on my father and given him an early interest in Abyssinia .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 ?
26 She thought she would have made a better job of it , not believing a word , just because she was a good teacher .
27 If it did act , it would have made a jurisdictional error and its decision would be a nullity .
28 That much is clear from the standard of his labels ; he would have made a poor museum curator !
29 His last words would have made a fine song title .
30 The Leonardo drawings alone would have made a fine exhibition , although not one to fill the entire first floor of Palazzo Grassi .
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