Example sentences of "it would [verb] for a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly the serrated blade of the sickle required no sharpening : it would last for a whole harvest without attention . |
| 2 | It would sit for a limited period , probably less than six months , and would take over responsibility for those areas of state operation essential for impartial elections including the security forces , a limited budgetary role , the state-owned media and the conduct of the elections themselves . |
| 3 | Either because he had the hump or because he thought it would make for a good show he started smashing the footlights one by one . |
| 4 | The process of report and interrogation took quite a time , and Rostov began to suspect that if he and the others were to be subjected to some form of tribunal before their fate was decided , then at least it would pass for a fair one . |
| 5 | But it would do for a comic sketch — ‘ |