Example sentences of "have made a good [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Alison spent 17 days in hospital after the shooting , but has made a good recovery and is back home in Trimdon Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough .
5 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 .
6 He plays throughout Europe and North America and has made a good number of recordings .
7 Robson , who watched Rocastle last Saturday , said : ‘ He has made a good start to the season .
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 His eyes were those of a chess-player who has made a good move .
11 Wise Speke is quietly confident that Whessoe has made a good deal for its longer term development .
12 My hon. Friend has made a good point .
13 My hon. Friend has made a good point .
14 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 .
15 The one with the fine stripes looked slightly flashier , but he 'd made a better ironing job of the plain one .
16 He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him .
17 He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist .
18 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 .
19 Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 .
20 She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung .
21 Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job .
22 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 .
23 ‘ 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 .
24 He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier .
25 ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’
26 No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it …
27 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 .
28 Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should .
29 She could n't have made a better selection than Keep Talking , a progressive horse both in terms of form and distance .
30 On a good pitch and with a fast outfield , Indian should have made a better fist of their innings , but only Srikkanth ( who fell to an outstanding catch by Peter Taylor at mid-off ) passed 20 as Australia 's allrounders ran through the order .
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