Example sentences of "[pron] would make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For instance , what it is for there to be a red rose in this darkened room is for it to be the case that if I were to turn the light on , I would make a certain observation , and if I were then to move to another place , I would make an observation rather different , and if you were to come in , you would observe such and such , and so on . |
| 2 | If we 're given an assignment , whatever it is , perform it well , do n't think that I would make a better magazine servant than that brother over there and I do n't like it on the accounts , why do they always use me as a hall servant ? |
| 3 | My brother said that I would make a good banker . |
| 4 | And at school they said I would make a good teacher . |
| 5 | I think I would make a lovely doggie model . |
| 6 | A I would make an educated guess and say that the ‘ fungus ’ growing on the bogwood is the result of decaying food . |
| 7 | You reckon Hatton would also have told him the river bed was full of stones one of which would make a suitable weapon for knocking off his informant ? ’ |
| 8 | He envisages the ambience of the place as ‘ discernibly British ’ and wants to see an element of ‘ commercial ’ use : private art galleries , bookshops and design studios would fit in very well , and there could be restaurants off the splendid riverside terrace , which would make a fine sculpture park . |
| 9 | Perhaps with a generous spirit on both sides some sort of accommodation might have been reached but before the possible constraints of the French Union became important there were more ominous developments , first in Vietnam , then in Paris , which would make a full-scale confrontation more likely . |
| 10 | be too big and one could be too small , which would make a big difference . |
| 11 | Loch Coire a'Mhuilinn was frozen over but crazed with cracks — a lonely spot which would make an evocative campsite . |
| 12 | Moving away from the terrace , broad steps drop down past a rose and herb bed edged with low growing box to the first lawn level , which would make an ideal play area . |
| 13 | She would make a good wife , when he decided to settle down . |
| 14 | At one stage her mother had felt she would make a good doctor and did all she could to encourage her to take up medicine . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's have a picnic , ’ she said , telling herself that next week she would make a real effort to work again at the practice of virtue . |
| 16 | On the whole , she decided , being a rat was more chic , but nevertheless she determined to write a long earnest article soon on some subject of profound importance in which she would make a significant contribution to the sum of human awareness . |
| 17 | Tonight she had said nothing , so Frankie almost believed himself safe , yet he lived with the constant fear that one night she would make a horrible mistake and he would walk to his death in the inky shadows upstairs . |
| 18 | She had been intending for days to make a start on clearing out the cloakroom ; now was the moment — she would make a preliminary survey , set aside what should be kept , see if there was anything good enough for Oxfam . |
| 19 | He did not love her , but she would make a remarkable duchess , and the fact that she had inherited more than her share of her papa 's famous shrewdness was a bonus which would assist the Blaines and make their future secure . |
| 20 | Certally , she would make an authoritive statement on behalf of the gummunt , though it would not be in monosybils , for which we should all be grayful . |
| 21 | Her friends here in the House say she would make an excellent mouthpiece , but I am not so sure . |
| 22 | ’ … so pro rata , even by our own romantic criteria for singling out just one girl from the hundred we meet , there must be at least fifteen million members of the opposite sex in the world who would make an ideal mate ! … |
| 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 | ‘ A good point , Master clerk You would make a good lawyer . |
| 25 | ‘ Like , maybe your parents were just fattening you up until you would make a decent meal for these dragons , or it was an intelligence test ; the kids smart enough to have sussed out the fact there were dragons around were the ones that would survive , and the ones that just lay there , trusting , each night , deserved to die , and their parents could n't tell them or the dragons would eat them , and stories about dragons were the only clues you were ever given ; that was all the adults could do to warn you … |
| 26 | ‘ In Berlin , where I come from , oh yes many years ago , before those foul Nazis besmirched the country , they would have said of you that you would make a great beauty , a grande dame sans merci . |
| 27 | Dick and I are ordinary people , but I think we would make a great team and dream up something far more interesting than most of the claptrap stuffing up the biography departments of bookstores . |
| 28 | Such a pretty yet elegant pressed flower picture as this one would make an ideal gift for a girl 's eighteenth birthday , especially if it matches the decor of her bedroom . |
| 29 | With a little more driving practice , they would make a perfect couple . |
| 30 | announced her resignation as Society Chairman as from the AGM and took great pleasure in introducing as next Society Chairman and as Vice-Chairman , she was sure they would make a good team and wished them every success in the future . |