Example sentences of "[verb] make a [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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 |
| 17 | Did he imagine she 'd made a special attempt to impress him ? |
| 18 | As Rostov watched , he seemed to make a deliberate effort to compose himself . |
| 19 | One woodcarver plans to make a rocking horse to sell in aid of leukaemia research . |
| 20 | ‘ Four clubs have asked me to play next season , and I 'm going to make a big effort to get fit again . |
| 21 | She had needed to make a real effort to get up today at all . |
| 22 | [ There was discrimination ] not directly , but in subtle ways , like when you 're choosing your options , no matter what you 're doing there 's always a group where you can do cookery or needlework , but if you 're doing physics you have to put that down , and that means that you ca n't do something else that you might want to do , like history or something ; you 've got to make a positive choice to do science whereas it 's quite easy to drift into doing history and things like that . |
| 23 | Having made a new table to replace a rather unsteady card table , there being no local shop which sold green baize , I opted for green Heuga carpet tiles . |
| 24 | Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise . |
| 25 | A lesser man than the Archdeacon would have made a mental note to avoid this rash abandonment of the riches offered by the Prayer Book collect in favour of a misshapen modernity . |
| 26 | By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor — no matter what the problems or obstacles . |
| 27 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 28 | With the inevitable increase in office rent , rates , postage , telephone and stationery etc. it is obvious that we shall all have to make a great effort to overcome this problem . |
| 29 | They will have to make a conscious effort to treat the assessment of need as a separate exercise from consideration of the service response . |
| 30 | Yanto realised he might well have to make a special journey to pick up the old man if Julie happened to be out . |