Example sentences of "[verb] make a [adv] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hon. Friend has made a most important point . |
| 2 | This is far from the first time that the Fnac has made a widely publicised intervention claiming that discounting favours the interests of the consumer . |
| 3 | Since joining the Community , Britain has made a consistently disproportionate contribution to the budget ; her consumers have largely subsidised the Common Agricultural policy ; her fishermen have lost their stocks to the Common Fisheries Policy ; her trading partnerships with the rest of the world have suffered ; and she has subsidised the exports of the other member states with a cumulative trade deficit of £86 billion . |
| 4 | ‘ QIS has made a very successful job of forming corporate glue ’ across locations between colleagues and now the inevitable fragmentation and the feeling of being up for grabs ’ is destroying links and making people retreat into defending their own area . |
| 5 | We are delighted to report that Ann McMillan has made a very good recovery from her operation . |
| 6 | The Save The Children Fund programme with the motorcycles has made a very big difference to the number of visits that health assistants can make to villages . |
| 7 | Methodism has made a very rapid progress , and has been of no trifling service in diverting the attention of these sons of darkness from their present condition to the glories of the life to come . |
| 8 | ‘ After her initial difficulties she has made a very satisfactory recovery . |
| 9 | It is here that John Bell , a theorist at CERN , Europe 's centre for nuclear research , has made a very valuable contribution . |
| 10 | But in the specialized sense it covers a range of disciplines which apply to most types of literature , and it has made a very positive contribution to the understanding of the Bible . |
| 11 | Despite this , Cureton has made a very important contribution to the study of poetic rhythm which should set the tone for rhythmic analysis for some time to come . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend has made a very important point , which I suspect will become more important as we approach the coming election . |
| 13 | ‘ Long-term business continues to progress and has made a substantially increased contribution to profits . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman has made an entirely peripheral intervention . |
| 15 | IN HIS short time as Chancellor , Norman Lamont has made an unusually large number of mistakes . |
| 16 | Even so , Britain has made an unusually bad fist of the regulatory structure set up under the 1986 Financial Services Act ; the outcome has been cumbersome and ineffective . |
| 17 | Marshall has made an almost mapped-out rise since he began playing the game at the age of eight at his father 's club at Kegworth . |
| 18 | But if you want to make a more substantial winter supper for family and friends , you can put this versatile condensed soup to good use and create a delicious meal just as quickly and easily . |
| 19 | I just want to make a very brief comment first of all . |
| 20 | Use ‘ faggot-stitch ’ to join them together ( see diagram for stitch detail ) or , if you want to make a really hefty decoration for a thick sweater , you could join it with buttonholed or blanket stitched bars . |
| 21 | A House of Commons , faced with a crisis , could easily seek to make a more extended use of its power than has been the case during the era of self-restraint . |
| 22 | Luckily she had proof , because she did n't think it was going to take long before he took steps to make it seem as if she 'd made a criminally stupid error . |
| 23 | My hon. Friend the Member for Taunton ( Mr. Nicholson ) intervened to make an extremely important point that we should all bear in mind . |
| 24 | In all of this , the Library recognises that it can only advance in the closest possible cooperation and consultation with those organisations , most notably university departments and university libraries , which have already set in place the academic and technological infrastructure to which we hope to make an increasingly useful contribution . |
| 25 | In the article ‘ Hypnosis on trial ’ ( 6 January , p 12 ) Professor Diamond is made to make a quite extraordinary statement ; ‘ The use of hypnosis on a potential witness is tantamount to the destruction of fabrication of evidence . ’ |
| 26 | He has not said what return on capital will have to be attained from the station in order to service the loan to construct the station , unless he intends to make a very large Government grant available for that construction . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's going to make a very big impression . ’ |
| 28 | We 've got to make a quite simple decision . |
| 29 | I always remember making a particularly unsuccessful pudding with brown rice as a young bride — we ate chewy rice in slightly reduced buttery milk ! |
| 30 | Something moved forward , something turned over , something began to make a most appalling noise , like a pneumatic drill greatly amplified . |