Example sentences of "have make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Ministers of Health would have incurred little or no extra criticism if they had failed to provide the services which the £25 million yielded by the prescription charges have made possible ; what criticism there was , would have been diffused over a hundred objects and none of it would have made a distinct impression on the mind of the electorate . |
2 | The landlord will not have made a taxable supply to the tenant and so can not issue a tax invoice , preventing the tenant from claiming input relief . |
3 | Thus , if pursuant to the will of X the property is vested in Y as legatee and Y subsequently sells the property for £550,000 , Y will only have made a taxable gain ( subject to the indexation allowance ) of £50,000 . |
4 | He would have made a marvellous Wozzeck . |
5 | She studied law , was called to the Bar in 1974 , and — falling within the top 5 per cent of all people who have ever been psychometrically tested for verbal critical reasoning skills — would have made a marvellous lawyer . |
6 | Coffin thought she would have made a marvellous soldier . |
7 | Flaubert might have made a similar avowal — ‘ I leave two children , Bouvard and Pécuchet ’ — because his only child , the niece who became a daughter , had departed into disapproving adulthood . |
8 | Eddie Gray is genuinely regarded by some clever football people to have been every bit as good as best , and could have made a similar name for himself had he not been dogged by injury . |
9 | You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation . |
10 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
11 | By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor — no matter what the problems or obstacles . |
12 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
13 | 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 . |
14 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
15 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
16 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | ‘ 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 . |
19 | He himself could always eat ; he would have made a good soldier . |
20 | ‘ Do you think you would have made a good Empress ? ’ |
21 | No , neither did I. Would have made a good headline , would n't it … |
22 | 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 . |
23 | For many people it 's riskier than the next approach and there is no guarantee of results ; but you will certainly have made a powerful impression on others . |
24 | That much is clear from the standard of his labels ; he would have made a poor museum curator ! |
25 | He may have made a cool £250,000 out of writing George Michael 's biography , but he was cute enough to identify a demand for the tome , and lucky George did n't want to rip him off for the proceeds . |
26 | Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency . |
27 | It was a strange situation , which must have made a lasting impression on Richard , who was more than usually close to his mother . |
28 | Such stories would have made a lasting impression on my father and given him an early interest in Abyssinia . |
29 | The canonization of Becket may have made a lasting impression on the future pope Innocent , at the time a boy of twelve or thirteen . |
30 | This would have made a fascinating court case . |