Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] would make [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your interest in the past centres on some figure in particular from days gone by you could perhaps not do better than to consider whether he or she would make a detective , as the American writer Lilian de la Torre did with a series of short stories about Dr Sam Johnson , Detector . |
| 2 | My brother said that I would make a good banker . |
| 3 | If we 're given an assignment , whatever it is , perform it well , do n't think that I would make a better magazine servant than that brother over there and I do n't like it on the accounts , why do they always use me as a hall servant ? |
| 4 | He was chosen for Scotland 's tour of North America in May , played in four of the six games , including the two non-cap Tests , and scored three tries : ‘ I was delighted to go but I never thought for a moment that I would make the Test side . |
| 5 | They decided on the following Friday for the party and Lee said that she would make a chicken and pasta and fruit and nut salad and make borscht and buy black bread and invite Philippa and Conrad if Larry would buy cheese and wine and serviettes and invite two friends of his own . |
| 6 | But before that she would make a cup of tea and read for a bit . |
| 7 | She decided that she would make a phone call just to check that Jenny had left home and knew the right time of her arrival . |
| 8 | She thought , child of an experimental scientist that she was , that she would make the test for herself and not take the easy way out of asking those experts in all matters Anglican , Theodora and Ian . |
| 9 | ‘ In Berlin , where I come from , oh yes many years ago , before those foul Nazis besmirched the country , they would have said of you that you would make a great beauty , a grande dame sans merci . |
| 10 | We further agreed that we would make no promises and twist no arms , and having decided on this general strategy , my friends urged me to leave the campaign to them . |
| 11 | I would anticipated that we can film the whole sequence within half an hour and that we would make every effort not to disrupt the normal running of your business . |
| 12 | I said that we would make the trip to Montparnasse one night and sing around the " Coupole " and the " Dome " for Reggie , my parents and their friends , but my father said he would pay us a lot of money to stay away . |
| 13 | Some schemes were , moreover , undertaken , even though it was known that they would make a loss , because of the statutory duty to supply . |
| 14 | He had become certain by watching the preparations in the sepoy camp that they would make a major assault within the next few hours . |
| 15 | Democrats in both houses of Congress responded to Barr 's decision by increasing their criticism of the Bush administration 's alleged obstruction of all efforts to investigate the Iraqgate allegations , and members of the House banking committee did not rule out the possibility that they would make a more specific request to Barr for the appointment of a special prosecutor . |
| 16 | It was suggested that three or four lights would be sufficient and that they would make a worthwhile contribution to road safety on this dangerous stretch of road where there is no footpath . |
| 17 | This time the terms imposed upon him and his followers were much more humiliating : they had to ‘ give such surety as it shall please to our lord the king ’ that they would make no further trouble . |
| 18 | I originally bought it because it was easy to carry around and I figured that it would make a nice practice guitar . |
| 19 | It gets so terribly complicated : I thought that it would make a very good board game . |
| 20 | However , the Swedish food and medical group Procordia , which is selling a 28% stake in Liber , has said that it would make a SK350m profit on the sale . |
| 21 | The Institute indicated when it commissioned the report that it would make every effort to adopt its proposals wherever possible , and has already agreed on action in a number of areas . |
| 22 | It is true that it would make no difference whether under the old law the offence would have been false pretences or larceny by a trick , provided the charge was laid under section 15(1) . |
| 23 | He reassured everyone that it would make no difference to the course he had set for himself . |
| 24 | I am doing my utmost to persuade my colleagues in the Council of Ministers that it would make no sense , for the European Community as well as this country , if the directives were promulgated in their present form . |
| 25 | He says that it would make an ideal site for tourist related businesses . |
| 26 | The answer was that it would make the study of literature highly historical and linguistic . |
| 27 | With a performance of such towering strength and breathtaking pathos that it would make the stones weep , Depardieu 's bulk and energy turn Jean into a force of nature even when it is nature he is fighting . |
| 28 | In fact , there 's so much bonding on stage that it would make the average punter slightly sick . |
| 29 | Racal Electronics Plc 's problematic data communications equipment business won a big fillip yesterday when British Telecommunications Plc announced that it would make the company its preferred supplier of new data communications equipment in the UK and internationally . |
| 30 | TSL Holdings reached pre-negotiated agreement in principle with some of its major creditors to restructure its debt in a deal expected to result in an exchange of existing debt for a combination of new equity and long-term debt , and the agreement was reached in recognition that it would make the Chapter 11 filing ; Europe accounts for some 80% of sales . |