Example sentences of "[pers pn] makes good " in BNC.
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1 | However , although he might look a bit lost , he makes good in Year 2 . |
2 | He makes good progress until he reaches the cornice , which promptly rejects him in a cascade of cold , powdery ice . |
3 | He understood the depth of the compliment : the landlord had compared him favourably with that greatest of heroes , a local boy made good ( so long , of course , as he makes good far away ) . |
4 | ‘ Not only is he a good ball winner , he makes good angles and scores regularly . |
5 | In these days of restrictions on capital investment it makes good sense to adapt to current and probable future needs when incurring capital expenditure . |
6 | This might be slightly bending the letter of the law in that the prospectus should be a single document but it makes good economic sense . |
7 | European manufacturers invariably make plain tiles alongside their interlocking tiles , and it makes good sense for a manufacturer to be able to offer both types of product . |
8 | Considering what is already known about muscle , it makes good sense . |
9 | At that time it makes good sense to separate males from females . |
10 | So , on that basis , it makes good sense to start on the bigger warrens . |
11 | Whether it makes good history or not is another matter . |
12 | It 's not that I 'm against autobiographical writing I just generally do n't think it makes good , or true , fiction . |
13 | Because none of us know when a permanently disabling accident may strike , it makes good sense to protect against the possible effects . |
14 | Because there were discontinuities as well as continuities , it makes good sense to say that modern chemistry emerged through a dialectical process in which the enthusiasms of the Paracelsian chemists were tempered by their critics . |
15 | Skills that he wishes to rehearse with them may be part of the programme of another department also , and it makes good sense to have some consultation and perhaps co-ordination . |
16 | And something I have not seen anywhere else , though it makes good sense , is that in these mainly narrow streets , the shops have their signs strung out at right-angles across the way so that you can stand at one end and read their names from there , without having to go down to look at them one by one . |
17 | It makes good sense for housing associations to buy several houses in adjoining streets for ease of monitoring and staff support . |
18 | It makes good sense to switch over to a lighter routine , just as you adapt to the warm weather by wearing lighter fabrics . |
19 | If a group anticipates no response at all , a blunt refusal , or even an attack upon its very integrity , then it makes good sense to keep its political head down below the level of activity . |
20 | Have it written as a P E P and it makes good sense . |
21 | It makes good business sense in another way too — because it is now cheaper to make plants that fit the pesticide than to adapt the pesticide to fit the plants . |
22 | It makes good chips or if it 's dry fried . |
23 | For farmer Brian Lloyd , it makes good commercial sense to have his flock scanned . |
24 | First , it makes good sense because everyone understands the language of money as a common denominator which goes across all boundaries . |