Example sentences of "[verb] make [art] [adj] [noun] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US company backed with British money has made a hasty deal to put its much-publicised camera on general sale in Britain after Easter . |
| 2 | During the last five months he has made a strenuous effort to get to know the area and the residents of this constituency of contrasts . |
| 3 | There was a hint that this was a short term strategy , Mao at the seventh national congress in April nineteen forty five argued the C C P has made a major concession to land to the tiller . |
| 4 | In ANDES " work , particularly in the controlled zones and with refugees , it has made a concerted attempt to include women , and its educational materials have been drawn up bearing in mind the need to broaden the context of women 's work . |
| 5 | Japanese industry has made a real effort to reduce energy use and particularly to cut oil consumption . |
| 6 | The TGAT report is long and difficult in places , but has made a skilful attempt to match the best of teacher practice in the field of assessment with the general constraints imposed by TNC . |
| 7 | GRAEME SOUNESS has made a final attempt to persuade Wimbledon to part with John Scales — and has lined up Neil Ruddock in case he fails . |
| 8 | The Conservative government has made a half-hearted attempt to tax company cars — half-hearted because it fears upsetting natural Tory voters . |
| 9 | Richard Body has made a brave attempt to shed the mythology and propaganda , and to expose farming objectives to public debate . |
| 10 | The father of a murdered prostitute has made a public appeal to help catch her killer . |
| 11 | It is always so annoying when one has made a particular effort to check a point and something still goes wrong . |
| 12 | Mr Major has made a special effort to patch up relations with Germany . |
| 13 | An occasional treat or privilege for a child who has made a big effort to master a new skill or managed to give up a bad habit hardly comes into that category . |
| 14 | ‘ Would you mind telling me , ’ I said diffidently to the Brigadier , ‘ whether Filmer has made a positive threat to disrupt this train ? ’ |
| 15 | While it has made no formal application to offer video-on-demand to customers — the official line is that it is merely looking at the technology 's potential — it is already clear that it faces a tough task convincing regulatory bodies that it has the right to do so . |
| 16 | KENNY DALGLISH has made an astonishing attempt to bring Queens Park Rangers duo Les Ferdinand and Andy Sinton to Blackburn Rovers . |
| 17 | Brown has made an interesting attempt to approach the situation from a more scientific basis . |
| 18 | All this is denied to him because he has made the irreversible decision to join up and his life will never be the same again . |
| 19 | An AA spokesman said : ‘ People tried making an early getaway to beat the traffic but they 've all met up and combined with others returning home from work . ’ |
| 20 | The government says it simply wants to make an early start to convince the markets of its attachment to the strong franc . |
| 21 | And what do you say , do you say , ‘ I do n't agree with what that man says , it 's a bad book , I do n't like it or I wo n't read it ’ , or do you say , ‘ it 's probably useful for me to try to make the imaginative judgment to see things the way he sees them , to see the way the world looks like from his point of view , and I may reject that , but at least one ought to have some tolerance and some understanding ’ , and it seems that that 's where the study of literature meets life . |
| 22 | I assumed that the major problems would be financial — the Centre now has to make a considerable charge to cover their costs — and one of occupancy . |
| 23 | Each age and each individual has to make the imaginative effort to appropriate the religious tradition and make it their own , as Julian did . |
| 24 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |
| 25 | Did he imagine she 'd made a special attempt to impress him ? |
| 26 | L The seller undertakes to make an irrevocable offer to enter into the form of agreement HB5 prescribed by the National House-Building Council . |
| 27 | When the seller of a newly built or building dwelling is registered with the NHBC N The seller undertakes to make an irrevocable offer to enter into a form of agreement HB5 ( 1979 edition ) prescribed by the National House-Building Council . |
| 28 | As Rostov watched , he seemed to make a deliberate effort to compose himself . |
| 29 | One woodcarver plans to make a rocking horse to sell in aid of leukaemia research . |
| 30 | ‘ Four clubs have asked me to play next season , and I 'm going to make a big effort to get fit again . |