Example sentences of "[verb] make a [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |
| 2 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |
| 3 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 4 | He plays throughout Europe and North America and has made a good number of recordings . |
| 5 | The Environmental Investigation Agency ( EIA ) , a British conservation group , has made a close study of the wildlife trade and has revealed some horrific transport practices . |
| 6 | The recourse to respirators and cardiac pace-makers that has made a legal definition of death based upon the absence of breathing and heartbeat outmoded is a good example . |
| 7 | ‘ The Labour council has made a terrible mess of Sheffield , ’ he says . |
| 8 | That was the way we became his followers , the way we got saved , it 's the way we continue , it 's the way and it 's the only re the only method by which we will ever stand before him and he will usher us into his presence to stand eternity with him , through his grace and as we see others , not in a sense of condemnation , not in a sense of self righteousness or pointing the finger , as we see others we can say with that man of old who , as he watched the , the man being dragged , to the , to the gallows , there but for the grace of God , goes I , goes me and there but for God 's grace , think of that most , that worse condition that you know , think of that person who has messed their life up more than any body else and er , who has made a total wreck of it , there but for the grace of God is you and there 's me , oh thank God for his grace . |
| 9 | Colin Seymour-Ure , taking Korea , Suez and the Falklands as his case studies , has made a ground-breaking study of Cabinet government in small wars : |
| 10 | Most of the plates bear one or two scratched numbers of the reverse : their meaning has not yet been identified but a research student from the Rijksmuseum has made a detailed survey of them and will be publishing his findings in the journal Print Quarterly at a future date . |
| 11 | Economic analyst Alex Henney , who has made a detailed study of the economics of nuclear power , estimates that , looking at the total balance sheet , the CEGB 's nuclear activities have been running at a substantial loss . |
| 12 | Fleischmann has had some excellent ideas including methods to measure the surface diffraction of X-rays and he has made a detailed study of electrolysis in solutions that do not conduct electricity . |
| 13 | Customer psychology , leadership psychology , management psychology , occupational psychology , organization psychology , employee psychology , trade union psychology and personal psychology : the Profitboss has made a life-long study of them all . |
| 14 | I am indebted to John Tomlinson of The Helios Homœopathic Pharmacy in Tunbridge Wells who has made a particular study of the Organon 's instructions on preparation and administration of LM 's and whose advice enabled the inclusion of the final section entitled Variable Factors . |
| 15 | Who has made a particular study of teams and their development . |
| 16 | Even when you have decided a broad direction , and I should emphasize that it is only possible to set ambitions in a broad sense and only helpful so to do , there will inevitably come times when external events show that one has made a false assessment of one 's starting point or the ability of one 's competitors , known or unsuspected , to seize the initiative . |
| 17 | DENNIS SKINNER , the Bolsover MP who has terrorised generations of ministers from his place below the gangway , has made a little bit of history this week . |
| 18 | Dr John Watkins , a GP in Rogerstone , Gwent , who has made a special study of flu , stressed yesterday that it was not too late for high-risk groups to be vaccinated . |
| 19 | At the Food Research Institute Dr David Southgate , who has made a special study of dietary fibre and whose research is the source of the scientific textbook fibre figures , has provided analytical values for the dietary fibre in a range of usefully fibre-rich canned and packaged foods , so that for the first time these products , which form such a major part of modern eating , can be realistically assessed and used for health value . |
| 20 | They have a new , quiet , charming , and very well qualified resident doctor Doctor Booth , who has made a special study of excess weight , and whom I found full of sound advice . |
| 21 | Carol Dyhouse has made a special study of women and education . |
| 22 | ‘ The Fisheries Commission has made a big deal of the fact that hundreds of nets have been seized . |
| 23 | Fredric Jameson has made a vigorous statement of this difficulty : |
| 24 | He studied again the letter he had found in the wallet , then got to work making a careful copy of it . |
| 25 | Indeed , you are permitted to make a faithful copy of a famous painting if you wish , as a means to master a particular technique or learn something of a process or style . |
| 26 | LENNY Henry wants to make a British version of New Jack City . |
| 27 | So it may be said that the legislation was promoted by a pressure group whose perception of Co-operation was decried by the Consumers ' Movement ; and passed under a Tory rather that a Liberal Government because a trade union tried to make a tactical use of just that form of co-operative preferred by the promoters and decried by the Consumers ' Movement . |
| 28 | Where handwritten texts are at issue , it is often the case that the individual reproducing the text in a printed version has to make a considerable effort of interpretation to assign a value to some of the less legible words . |
| 29 | Hatton , for example , summed up the delinquency of Reggie Smashem and Billy Dustup as ‘ nothing more serious than the symptoms of healthy , vigorous , adventurous adolescence ’ : ‘ I propose to make a practical examination of this question of the ‘ hooligan ’ ’ , for I am seriously concerned that he is not getting a fair deal . ’ |
| 30 | An acquaintance who is well-informed as to the intentions of the Liberals writes to me that they propose to make a big plan of public works the centre of their election programme . |