Example sentences of "[noun] make some " in BNC.

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1 ‘ At the same time , the midfield was overrun in the second half and the defence made some horrendous errors .
2 The leader writer depicted the Minister of Education Florence Horsbrugh as having been ‘ hoist with her own petard ’ : if she had hoped that her Committee of Enquiry would recommend financial cuts she had been disappointed , for if anything the proposals made some increase in expenditure likely .
3 Mummius made some amends to the Greeks by generous dedications in their sanctuaries .
4 Kelly made some superb runs , and was one of the better crossers of the ball .
5 The sub-standard systems Earth Central had seen fit to install in the Base made some weird noises at the best of times , but this … .
6 The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires .
7 So the Guardian made some inquiries .
8 And the atmosphere of hectic unreality made some resolute .
9 During the screening process , however , the Education Ministry made some changes which were criticized by liberals .
10 The budget made some of those schemes more attractive and , hopefully , Esops will be adopted to meet expected extra demand .
11 Although Newsreel made some startlingly good documentaries , shortage of funds was a constant problem .
12 The book had worthy intentions , and the text made some good points , but the illustrations were weak and said nothing about the real conditions of the poor .
13 Gala won the ruck and Lawson made some ground before belting the ball up the middle of the field .
14 Although Byzantium made some inroads in Dalmatia during the next two centuries , the issue was finally settled in favour of Rome at the end of the ninth century by the Croatian prince Branimir ( 879–92 ) .
15 The Mormons make some quite heavy demands as regards sexual or quasi-sexual observances .
16 The hon. Member for Rotherham made some interesting points about independent arbitration .
17 Mouton-Rothschild made some of the most stylish wines of the 1980s , especially the superb 1986 .
18 The social security review made some fundamental improvements , but that should not be the end of reform in this area .
19 Though the RAWP review made some sensible changes to the national formula such as using all cause premature standardised mortality ratio , the resulting weighting was particularly contentious .
20 Piers made some feeble joke and went off to get the lunch from the car with Peter .
21 In January 1990 Prime Minister V. P. Singh made some low-level appointments to the Council of Ministers [ see p. 37346 ] , and carried out the first major expansion of his Ministry in late April [ see p. 37378 ] .
22 Unfortunately the statement of Balassa made some years ago still remains true , " there exists no wholly satisfactory way of measuring the effect of a customs union or free trade area on trade flows .
23 The eighteen months out of Trade Rule made some sense when this great nation of ours had something resembling full-time employment .
24 Fabia opened her mouth to make some kind of sophisticated reply , but her heart was racing so much — nobody had even paid her such an extravagant compliment before , and yet made it sound true and sincere , and not extravagant at all — that she could think of nothing to say .
25 Hayes makes some relevant remarks , but even more apposite here is the computationally-informed work of the psycholinguists G. A. Miller and P. N. Johnson-Laird , who have studied the basic perceptual procedures in which our linguistic abilities are grounded ( Miller & Johnson-Laird 1976 ) .
26 The regional policies that have been developed , refined and improved in Britain in the past quarter of a century owe a great deal to the foresight of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in deciding to send Lord Hailsham , as he is now , to the north-east to make some progress .
27 And an egg-stravaganza of eggs made their appearance at Grayswood School last week when the pupils put on their thinking caps to make some weird and wonderful creations .
28 The Joint Commission reconvened in a final attempt to make some progress .
29 As usual Derek Scott makes some good points .
30 Citroen makes some fine cars , but it tends not to make them very well .
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