Example sentences of "have made [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | At the present time the English tend to play down the significance of affinal relationships but , even so , the statement " she has made a good marriage " is more likely to refer to the social and financial standing of the husband 's immediate kin than to the personal qualities of the husband himself . |
2 | Oldham v Barnsley Dobbin , the Barnsley midfielder carried off at Blackpool in midweek , has made a good recovery from a knee injury and may play . |
3 | Alison spent 17 days in hospital after the shooting , but has made a good recovery and is back home in Trimdon Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough . |
4 | The courts are generally concerned only with the question whether the promisor has made a bargain , not with whether he has made a good bargain . |
5 | He plays throughout Europe and North America and has made a good number of recordings . |
6 | Robson , who watched Rocastle last Saturday , said : ‘ He has made a good start to the season . |
7 | Although he is cautious about predicting how rapidly or how strongly profits will grow in 1993 , he believes the UK business has made a good start to the year , with revenues from both consulting and recruitment ahead of budget . |
8 | More can be done and more is being done and we shall encourage the industry to go out and get more business wherever it is ; but it has made a good start . |
9 | His eyes were those of a chess-player who has made a good move . |
10 | Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development . |
11 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
12 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
13 | I imagine she leaned eagerly over the desk towards me , as towards a pupil who has made a good point in his essay , smiling and nodding encouragingly . |
14 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |
15 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
16 | I would n't have made a good martyr , for the frown of the tyrant alarmed me more than the threat of wild beasts or the rack . |
17 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
18 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
19 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
20 | But Jan Peerce makes a very coarse and unromantic Alfredo , and Licia Albanese , who might have made a good shot at the role of Violetta under more sympathetic direction , sounds particularly nervous and unsettled . |
21 | ‘ Yes , I 'm sorry too , we could have made a good team , in business at least , though I realize we could never be friends or anything of that sort , but I 'm convinced it could have worked . |
22 | He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier . |
23 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
24 | No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it … |
25 | This village blacksmith was not a ‘ mighty man ’ at all ; in fact , he was much smaller than Micky , his twelve-year-old son , who would have made a good model for the Fat Boy in the Pickwick Papers . |
26 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
27 | ‘ We 've made a good beginning , ’ he said , interrupting Kate 's account of how Ginny Salperton had met David Quest . |
28 | Begin keeping a record of all events at this point ; hopefully it wo n't be needed , but if it is you 've made a good start . |
29 | I mean , it 's a , it 's a wooden prefab type hut , it 's very hardy done , concrete floors , they 've made a good job of it . |
30 | Yes , you 've made a good job of it . |