Example sentences of "made [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had the time come to forget the promise they had made each other , the guarantee they had given never to meet or speak ? |
| 2 | I make a note of each new species so comparisons can be made each year . |
| 3 | About 16 000 000 visits are made each year by town and city folk who come to use the same landscape . |
| 4 | But then , under the new rules , Messrs Smith , Marsh , Nearn et al will be no threat to the major players : only 500 low-volume type-approved cars to any one design can be made each year — a number of Marcoses , Westfields and Caterhams combined that 's less than a day 's output from Longbridge . |
| 5 | A pilgrimage is made each year by villagers from Holy Trinity to St Faith 's where a short service is held . |
| 6 | Payment is made each year shortly before Christmas . |
| 7 | Today , 2.5 million magnetrons are made each year for the microwave oven market . |
| 8 | The award will be made each year by the Directorate to the person whom they consider to be the best trainee from within the Department . |
| 9 | Guinness plays a key role in the Irish economy where an immense contribution is made each year ; for instance , over IR£200 million is spent annually on the wages and salaries bill for its 3,000 employees up and down the country , along with the purchase of home grown raw materials and other requirements for its operations in the Republic . |
| 10 | Only a handful of such grants are made each year , and Woodchester Mansion 's success is all the more remarkable because the building was only ever half-finished |
| 11 | I have therefore made each chapter short , no more than a few pages , and have picked the most vivid examples in each case . |
| 12 | Thirty five today , there would be no better birthday present than the sort of start he has made each time he won here — a 66 in 1980 and a 68 in 1983 . |
| 13 | The WP test must be made each time the adventurers re-enter this corridor . |
| 14 | An additional administrative charge of £5 per person will be made each time a booking is changed . |
| 15 | Despite the strenuous efforts that were made each time to prevent them , accidents would happen . |
| 16 | Stage or interim payments are then made each week to the sub-contractor and the surveyor will make any necessary remeasurement and adjust the final quantities and payment accordingly . |
| 17 | It had a breathless untidiness , with an underlying stratum of solid good things : expensive carpets and curtains in dark plain colours , antique furniture ranging from valuable to junk , but having in common a charm or whimsicality that had made each piece claim her attention originally . |
| 18 | The international forum established after the Rhodes Summit in December 1988 has made little headway on the issue of border controls , and the police are critical of the British government 's delay in making its own position clear . |
| 19 | Lacking adequate finance , information and technical expertise , and saddled with a piece of legislation riddled with loopholes and contradictions , the Institute was faced with an impossible task and had made little headway by the time the political climate changed in autumn 1933 . |
| 20 | Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway . |
| 21 | Her willingness to talk verged on a compelling need and after all his previous attempts to gain her confidence , which had made little headway , he knew he must not let such an opportunity pass him by . |
| 22 | The 13-member Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries ( OPEC ) had made little headway in curbing over-production during 1990 . |
| 23 | Under the privatisation proposal it was offering almost £14million for the rest of PPFE , which had made little progress since the Hong Kong flotation . |
| 24 | While the diesel option has become popular among owners of off-roaders like the Discovery and the Mitsubishi Shogun , it has so far made little progress in the executive car class . |
| 25 | First , the Act has made little progress in terms of reversing the trend in the United States towards earlier retirement . |
| 26 | Nevertheless , there are areas where France 's research policy has made little progress . |
| 27 | Police investigations have made little progress . |
| 28 | By 1907 ITF activity was regarded by the shipowners as sufficiently serious to justify the setting up of an International Shipping Federation " to combat the growing forces of socialism and aggressive trade unionism " , but in reality it had made little progress in establishing international standards and the British market for seamen was still being substantially undercut by lower rates of pay of foreign labour . |
| 29 | The Government have made little progress beyond the position that the right hon. Lady set out . |
| 30 | A Constitution Drafting Committee , which had been established soon after the formation of the LPDR in late 1975 [ see pp. 27541-43 ] , had made little progress during the LPDR 's first decade . |