Example sentences of "make [art] good [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friends have made the good point that the Labour party is posing as the party of carbon dioxide reductions while at the same time it wants to force electricity generators to burn more coal , phase out the nuclear industry and , in its phrase , to ’ deter ’ the generators from using gas for power generation . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 4 | That would of made a good conversation , why did you give Michelle the glass ? |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The daughter has finally made a good marriage , after a dodgy one . |
| 7 | He 's made a good marriage . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ We 've made a good beginning , ’ he said , interrupting Kate 's account of how Ginny Salperton had met David Quest . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | She would have made a good wife for a T'ang , let alone a man like Sung . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Thoo 's made a good choice there , Aah thinks , ’ he said grudgingly , as he and George walked across Crown Square . |
| 14 | Good Money would have made a good short , with a budget of , say , £75,000 . |
| 15 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | His eyes were those of a chess-player who has made a good move . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Robson , who watched Rocastle last Saturday , said : ‘ He has made a good start to the season . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |