Example sentences of "make a good [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | On a seller and buyer summons the court declared that the seller had not made a good title , and ordered the return to the buyer of the buyer 's deposit on the equitable principle that it is a seller 's duty to disclose fully and frankly in the contract any title defect . |
| 2 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 3 | That would of made a good conversation , why did you give Michelle the glass ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The daughter has finally made a good marriage , after a dodgy one . |
| 6 | He 's made a good marriage . |
| 7 | They were usually billed as the star attraction so John obviously made a good profit out of them but they were still paid at the same rate as all his juveniles , five shillings a week . |
| 8 | ‘ We 've made a good beginning , ’ he said , interrupting Kate 's account of how Ginny Salperton had met David Quest . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 11 | Jonadab confirmed that the shepherd was not one for strong drink and was beginning to think that George had possibly made a good choice , when the old farmer and his wife came back along the line . |
| 12 | ‘ Thoo 's made a good choice there , Aah thinks , ’ he said grudgingly , as he and George walked across Crown Square . |
| 13 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
| 14 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 15 | Bowsher and his colleagues have made a good case for paradoxical pain being the result of a genetic inability to metabolise morphine to the potent morphine-6-glucuronide , leaving large quantities of morphine-3-glucuronide ( a putative morphine antagonist or a non-specific cerebral stimulant , or both ) unopposed . |
| 16 | Having apparently made a good case ( to wit , the UK now spends nearly two per cent less per head on education than in 1980 ) it starts talking about education . |
| 17 | His eyes were those of a chess-player who has made a good move . |
| 18 | I 've lost count of the times I 've made a good catch and returned the next night ( or day as the case may be ) only to blank or , at best , catch a fraction of the previous night 's catch . |
| 19 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | But erm , it 's , it 's terrifying , and when we get , as and Jack 's made a good point and , and it is a good one , that perhaps if we spent only half a day when somebody joins the depot and said to them , this is the geography of our depot , and this is where everywhere is , and this is how you get from one side of it to the other . |
| 23 | Robson , who watched Rocastle last Saturday , said : ‘ He has made a good start to the season . |
| 24 | The South Africans nevertheless made a good start , reaching 79 for one in the 20th over , but the loss of the assured Hudson ( 50 in 66 balls ) and of Kirsten in the space of three overs left the middle order with a daunting task . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Founded and endowed by Leo Bonn , a deaf merchant banker and financier , the bureau had made a good start , but went into decline during the war . |
| 29 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |
| 30 | We have made a good start . |