Example sentences of "has [vb pp] make " in BNC.

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1 A law of international organisations has developed to make effective the actions of international organisations , and has displaced the classic rule of treaties and third parties in this context .
2 Peugeot has stopped making its 505D , but it is a fine car and very cheap .
3 Timex 's plant in Dundee has stopped making watches ( it now produces printed circuit boards ) , and its workforce has dwindled from over 4,000 to a few hundred .
4 THE WORLD HAS stopped making sense again , and Odilo forgets everything again ( which is probably just as well ) , and the war is over now ( and it seems pretty clear to me that we lost it ) , and life goes on for a little while .
5 Little has altered to make finance in America and Britain suddenly different from the way it was 10 , 20 or even 30 years ago .
6 Worships if I may interrupt the the this erm dispute about the damage which was allegedly caused I have mentioned it to Miss this morning and she has undertaken to make further enquiries .
7 I have mentioned it to Miss this morning and she has undertaken to make further enquiries .
8 John Alderdice , the Alliance leader , today said : ‘ It should be possible for the Government to bring forward the propositions which Sir Patrick has undertaken to make available to us and start bilateral talks .
9 Until now , though , we have glossed over descriptions of shot sizes , and the time has come to make these clearer .
10 It seems that the idea is to get rid of the 14 Minor County sides as quickly as possible , but the time has come to make cricket 's oldest limited-overs competition into a proper knockout contest , instead of a half-baked one as at present .
11 A woman will say something like , ‘ Oh look , he 's got a cute butt ’ and some geek standing next to her , sensing that his chance has come to make serious waves in the world of sexual politics , will whine , ‘ You would n't like that if I said that about a girl . ’
12 ‘ The time has come to make it clear that it is only where a taxpayer has established the existence of a profit-generating operation carried on by him outside Hong Kong that he can hope to escape the charge to profits tax imposed by section 14 .
13 Now I realise , with growing apprehension , that my fertile years will soon be over and that the time has come to make another choice .
14 The budgets that we announced were £24 million and £20 million , which my hon. Friend has added to make £44 million .
15 Under twenty years of military rule , its output has grown to make Brazil the world 's largest agricultural exporter after the United States .
16 I wonder whether the Treasury Minister has applied to make such a statement , because this concerns the Treasury as well as the Department of Trade and Industry ?
17 I 've been at dinner with him when something someone has said made him laugh so much he 's got up from the table to give the fullest physical expression to it .
18 But a man who has struggled to make Labour electable , at the cost of jettisoning his beliefs , might still have the heart to continue that battle .
19 Although the WBC , one of boxing 's four governing bodies , has threatened to make Lewis champion if Bowe 's first defence is not against him , there would be enormous pressure to keep the world title unified .
20 At the age of 76 and realising that the lifetime of the next Parliament would take him into his eighties , he has decided to make way for a younger man .
21 It is almost as if Big Brother begrudges us our pleasures and has decided to make us realise there are other things going on in the world other than cricket .
22 The Bank of England has decided to make the IMF 's new index the UK 's ‘ official ’ exchange rate index .
23 ( 161 ) Ford has decided to make a change in marketing approach this year .
24 The German government has decided to make compulsory the recycling of much of the packaging used by industry and commerce .
25 The 29-year-old prop , Scotland 's longest serving captain , has decided to make this summer 's tour to Australia his swansong .
26 Every one of you has made a contribution to the character of this institution and I take pleasure in acknowledging what each of you has done to make this such a satisfying academic and social environment .
27 ‘ The impetus for change has been driven by the charities rather than the City , but the City recognised this and has sought to make the most of it . ’
28 In particular , he has sought to make the desert bloom , damming its rivers and plundering its scant resources of water to create neat , green fields and , more recently , the harmonious , man-made landscapes of the golf course .
29 He has sought to make a political attack on me , and I shall reply in the same way because the right hon. Gentleman has been highly selective in his summary of the case .
30 The Information Technology Sub-Committee has sought to make a contribution , and successfully put forward a reasoned scheme for the amendment of pleadings by non-coloured laserprinter which was subsequently adopted for a trial period within the Commercial Division under .
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