Example sentences of "[modal v] make a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Computer-aided design may make a good designer out of a sloppy one . |
| 2 | So this should make a good paperback , one hopes at under £10 . |
| 3 | There 's some quality body parts lying around her ; should make a good monster . |
| 4 | Should make a good picture some time . |
| 5 | ‘ And if you think I 'll make a good wife , I 'll agree to marry you . |
| 6 | I 'll make a good job of it ; enough to put me a county or two away . ’ |
| 7 | I have to be convinced that she 'll make a good mother . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ There was a field of women working and I thought , that 'll make a good photograph , ’ the camera-bereft girl began . |
| 9 | Rufus might make a good interrogator . |
| 10 | This might make a good science fiction story — The White Cloud , it could be called — but for our purposes a computer model like the monkey/Shakespeare model is easier to grasp . |
| 11 | And the people doing it in these garages erm , you know like respraying and doing all the welding and everything , really he said some of the things they were doing if they did it legally they 'd make a good go of it |
| 12 | I do n't believe she 'd make a good mother for Kirsty . ’ |
| 13 | Do you think I 'd make a good do you think I 'd make a good director ? |
| 14 | a lovely course for re reflexology and one day , I went to Shambrook College and he said to me you 've got , you 've got a great feeling with your hands he said , you , you , you 'd make a good reflexology , but the courses were in Luton |
| 15 | He said show me how to carve , actually I bet he 'd make a good chef |
| 16 | You 'd make a good father , Rex . |
| 17 | But I think I could make a good country record . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And Polly always used to say how good Lynn was , reckoned she could make a good career in designer living . |
| 20 | I should think you could make a good living there if you wanted to . |
| 21 | ‘ I have this idea of running a foster home , I think I could make a good job . |
| 22 | ‘ The decided to fight her case for her so she could make a good job of it , ’ Mr Robinson claimed . |
| 23 | If you have an hour to spare every two weeks or so , and think you would make a good listener , our ‘ Caring Officer ’ would love to hear from you . |
| 24 | She had decided that either would make a good farmer 's wife . |
| 25 | She would make a good wife , when he decided to settle down . |
| 26 | That would make a good Adjournment debate . |
| 27 | How could I ever have thought La Tartine d'Albertine would make a good title ? he wrote . |
| 28 | In this way the man and his sheep may linger in our minds , even if we do not remember the economic difficulties so clearly — ‘ The Last of the Flock ’ would make a good title for a Victorian narrative painting . |
| 29 | I told him I though it would make a good fireman " hat . |
| 30 | I had suggested that their epic journey through the mountains would make a good subject for a film . |