Example sentences of "had made [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other regimes had made tentative steps towards amelioration ; what distinguished the Emperor 's plan from the preceding ones was its all-over view of the problem — urbanization based on urban planning . |
| 2 | Paisley and I issued a joint statement spelling out that the authorities had made inaccurate claims about the shooting and referred to the information in the forensic report . |
| 3 | Surrey had made 92 for three when Stuart suddenly declared — we thought he had gone mad . |
| 4 | The Special Task Force had made 102 arrests in the city . |
| 5 | The first two at Port-of-Spain were spoiled by the weather ; in the opening one , West Indies had made 208 and England 26 for 1 when the rain came , while the second got no further than West Indies being 13 without loss . |
| 6 | The Authority was less successful in its attempt to ensure that disciplinary proceedings were brought against a detective superintendent , whose early retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1989 meant that he avoided questions about his links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs , queries that had arisen after a World in Action television programme which had made serious allegations about corruption in the London police . |
| 7 | The government had made serious proposals during 1988 about reforming the graduate assignment system because of its glaring inefficiencies . |
| 8 | Certainly the boards we studied in more depth had made serious efforts to understand their duties and responsibilities . |
| 9 | She had made four previous films : Shenandoah ( 1965 ) , The Singing Nun ( 1966 ) , Mr Buddwing ( 1966 ) and Games ( 1967 ) , but only the first of these had any merit . |
| 10 | The king , so they said , had made four new commands on the Welsh front , though it was only four months since he had made the previous appointments of the two Percies as lieutenants of north and south Wales . |
| 11 | Seve , who had made four trips to the course during its construction , completed the tough par-73 course in 75 but announced himself satisfied with the lay-out . |
| 12 | The squatters had made four bedrooms out of it , keeping the kitchen at the back , and a pretty basic bathroom tacked on to that , as communal areas . |
| 13 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 14 | Despite the market uncertainties and many other problems there were a number who had made great strides and it seemed that many would succeed . |
| 15 | The women had made great play with brooms and buckets , sweeping the pavement around the policeman 's feet till he was forced to jump over them to avoid being floored . |
| 16 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 17 | The industry 's many critics had made great demands and threatened many a crisis but they had not halted the growth of the movies as mass entertainment . |
| 18 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 19 | Magnus , said Pinchbeck , had made great strides under his predecessor , Rick Haythornthwaite , developing the asset management system which has resulted in greater teamwork and enhanced empowerment of the individual . |
| 20 | In his letter Prawiro said that Indonesia had made great efforts to forge a relationship with the Netherlands after " an exceedingly painful historical past resulting from centuries of inhuman colonial subjugation " . |
| 21 | The CNAA , he and others believed , had made great progress in improving the standards of business studies , and had begun to do the same for management studies , but ‘ the job of improving management studies has hardly begun . |
| 22 | While I was in the Gulf , one of our teachers vanished temporarily after a call to a colleague in which he had made disparaging remarks about members of the local royal family . |
| 23 | He had made various bids at drawing her out , to no avail ; now he felt in sympathetic collusion — thus had he survived his own schooldays . |
| 24 | Swan had made half-a-million by the time he was thirty , he had chaired the Planning Committee of the Arden District Council for the past ten years , and he was not the sort to give in easily . |
| 25 | Teesdale Comprehensive Barnard Castle , progressed at the expense Roseberry Comprehensive Chester-le-street , who were bowled out for 48 after Teesdale had made 61 for one . |
| 26 | He had managed to acquire a brown mark on his right cheek and in the centre of his chin , and a dark smear had appeared on the front of his shirt : this he had made worse by diligent rubbing . |
| 27 | During the last working session of the UNCLOS , arrangements were made to give guaranteed access to those countries and companies which had made substantial investments in deep-seabed mining in the past . |
| 28 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 29 | Both Edward I and Edward II had made substantial use of the traditional feudal levy for raising an army , summoning all tenants-in-chief of the crown to serve unpaid with a set quota of men for forty days . |
| 30 | These results were backed by solid gains at local elections and it became clear that the Nationalists had made substantial inroads into the Labour vote , at any rate between general elections . |