Example sentences of "[noun] could [verb] [art] good " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young man 's brother wrote to Lord Panmure to see if David could make the best of the situation in which he found himself by obtaining a midshipman 's place . |
| 2 | Cars would slow down so that their drivers could have a better look . |
| 3 | Such data could provide a better understanding of how pneumonia fits into the course of the chronic diseases it often accompanies , and thereby form a basis for therapeutic decision-making . |
| 4 | A ship equipped with two or three of these panemones could have the best of both worlds . |
| 5 | For about four centuries the rulers of England had been trying to conquer and rule France , Scotland , and Ireland , but they had just lost their last foothold in France at Calais , their position in Ireland was as insecure as it had ever been , and the Scottish problem had taken an altogether new turn because Mary the Queen of Scotland could present a good claim to the English throne . |
| 6 | A nome could get a good night 's sleep in one of those . ’ |
| 7 | One member of the 4-Skins , protesting his innocence of any B.M/N.F involvement to a journalist the next day , told a story which under less dire circumstances could rival the best of Buster Keaton in terms of pathos , slapstick and deadpan gallows humour . |
| 8 | The reputations of our national football , cricket and tennis teams have sunk to a level where victory over the likes of Macao or the Isle of Man would be greeted as minor triumphs , while even our Olympic sprint gold medallist Linford Christie could finish no better than seventh in mid-week . |
| 9 | Pascoe could tell a good lie from a bad . |
| 10 | Being part of a movement , collectively analysing , planning , working and reviewing the plan gives confidence that the outcome could represent the best alternative as viewed by the majority . |
| 11 | Where there is a likelihood that the purchaser could achieve the best return by putting the company into liquidation , and would in practice be able to carry this out , then the assets basis valuation using break-up values should be applied . |
| 12 | Johnson said she should be sent to St Kilda , that she ‘ stood in the way of what was good ’ ; he called her beauty ‘ insipid ’ , and said that a skilful craftsman could cut a better face out of a cabbage . |
| 13 | But Cecil 's string was struggling to find its form at the time and Rainbow Lake could manage no better than a modest sixth to subsequent Derby fourth Cairo Prince . |
| 14 | The policeman could employ a good deal of violence on his beat to avoid the need for tiresome court appearances . |
| 15 | Coupled with such instructions , electronic , time coded diaries could provide a better method for ensuring the quality of diary records . |
| 16 | At the major theatres — the King 's , the Little Theatre in the Haymarket , Covent Garden and Drury Lane — audiences could enjoy the best of contemporary Italian opera , together with works by British composers like Arne , Hook and Dibdin . |
| 17 | Because transport costs were so high , trade could add a good deal to the national income of any country which was successful at it . |
| 18 | I think you could play so many tunes on it that not only would we be producing much more efficiently and economically , but people could have a better quality of life too . |
| 19 | The fourteenth-century Franciscan William of Ockham went further in declaring it probable that God could make a better world than this . |
| 20 | It was simply a question , Fred declared , of having ‘ a nose for news ’ and added that only a competent reporter could make a good story out of unlikely ingredients . |
| 21 | His arrival could trigger a better relationship between the players and the crowd . |
| 22 | Several years ' experience of manpower planning work in large organisations ( Rolls-Royce and the NHS ) led to the conviction that microcomputers could provide the best solution to many of the problems encountered . |
| 23 | They should become purchasing bodies , buying services from whatever hospital or unit could give the best deal . |
| 24 | A good master could find a good crew , but many good men found no commissions since inferior men were cheaper . |
| 25 | However , it was possible to invoke a strong emotional reaction by drawing attention to the obvious fact that the paying patient could get a better and faster service than his National Health counterpart . |
| 26 | This was not maintained after a second night , and after the third night without sleep subjects provided with these incentives could perform no better than those not provided with incentives . |
| 27 | It is their first one , but no jockey could have a better ride . |