Example sentences of "it [vb mod] [verb] a good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 'll take a good year before she 'll get back in the swing of everything . |
| 2 | It 'll take a good bit of practice . ’ |
| 3 | I told him I though it would make a good fireman " hat . |
| 4 | Your own life has been remarkable for tragedies , and triumphs — it would make a good movie and a good book , are either of those things planned ? |
| 5 | After examining it , they considered it would make a good tool-box and decided to take it with them . |
| 6 | It would make a good book , this would . ’ |
| 7 | If we could observe them , it would provide a good test of this picture of a very hot early stage of the universe . |
| 8 | If this is true ( and it is not so far-fetched : if you carry on an intelligent argument with your readers in the columns of a newspaper , you can not expect them to believe that the responsibilities of self-government are beyond them ) , then it would seem a good example of propaganda having the opposite effect to that intended . |
| 9 | ‘ The sun is in just the right place , and it will make a good picture . ’ |
| 10 | Strain them ( keep the liquid — it will make a good basis for a vegetable soup ) , put them in a bowl and while still hot stir in plenty of olive oil , sliced onion , garlic , parsley , and a little vinegar . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's fair to say that we liked the thought of it going to somewhere like Embsay , which does n't have any other big engines , because it will do a good bit of flag flying for us there . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ A very handsome , large heavy bulb , quite globe-shaped ; and being such a firm onion it will prove a good keeper . ’ |
| 13 | As XPS is useful for the study of surfaces it can give a good deal of information about species adsorbed on catalysts . |
| 14 | And it can make a good soup , if well cooked . ’ |
| 15 | It can take a good typist ten minutes to re-type an A4 page of text , and a poor one even longer . |