Example sentences of "[noun] has make a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Mr Truman has made a number of discoveries and new attributions , not without correcting even the minutest mistake in the previous catalogue .
2 Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another .
3 Swindon has made a name for itself attracting overseas investment into Britain , American , Japanese and German .
4 Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention .
5 Virani has made a fortune from acting as middle-man , between the English property tycoon and the Asian shopkeeper .
6 There perhaps you would say the id is beginning to dominate the ego , but in accepting these extreme cases of , of psychotics who are severely divorced from reality , the , what always happens is the id has to make a demand on the ego which then gratifies it .
7 The drinks industry has made a gesture towards its concern about alcohol misuse by setting up the Portman group .
8 This chapter has made a number of points about the way in which PNP policy was formulated and communicated ; about the means and manner of its interpretation ; its substance ; and the strategies adopted to secure its implementation .
9 The president has made a habit of breaking election promises .
10 Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the United States has made a bid for that work ?
11 Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that .
12 The group 's Snob subsidiary is steadily raising its sales per square foot and management has made a breakthrough at the previously troubled Peter Brown menswear acquisition , which has performed markedly better since June .
13 In general terms , any group of people wishing to carry on business under English law has to make a choice between three distinct legal forms of organisation , the company , the partnership and a hybrid known as the limited partnership .
14 Following concerns expressed by the Visiting Group , a consultant has made a report on environmental conditions in the Library .
15 Frank has made a career of knocking on doors , finding the wood is solid and going round the back way .
16 The Institute of Directors has made a submission to the Chancellor of the Exchequer arguing that ‘ the UK should take immediate unilateral action to resolve the problem ’ .
17 This means that the seller has made a return of 50 per cent on his initial investment of 200 in just five days while the buyer has lost 50 per cent of his initial investment .
18 Crusaid has made a donation to almost every major HIV/AIDS project in the UK ’
19 One of the organisations has made a pledge of £25,000 to the appeal .
20 The Federal Assembly has made a mess of the country 's name , rejecting the Czecho-Slovakia with a hyphen and finally agreeing on the Czech and Slovak Federated Republic ( CFSR ) .
21 Ansoff has made a distinction between :
22 My right hon. Friend has made a number of important points about the changes that will be necessary if European monetary union is not to do the country enormous damage .
23 The court has made a direction to the local authority that the guardian ad litem be allowed to have continuing involvement with a view to making an application in due course if thought appropriate .
24 ( b ) The child The child is entitled to respondent status in : ( i ) applications under Parts IV and V of the Act ( proceedings which relate to care , supervision , contact , child assessment , emergency protection and recovery orders ) ; ( ii ) applications under Part III of the Act ( secure accommodation orders and approval to the emigration of children in care ) ; ( iii ) any application for a residence order under s8 in relation to a child in care ; ( iv ) any family proceedings in which the court has made a direction for investigation under s37(1) ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) and has either made or is considering whether to make an interim care order .
25 Uitsmijter has made a study of Maa .
26 The charity to benefit this year is Leukaemia Research , and Lisburn 's own golden girl Mary Peters has made a plea for runners to help the valuable work of this group by obtaining sponsorship .
27 ‘ Indeed , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ 't is to be hoped that the two saintly souls got on well together in life ( if so be that they ever met at all , which I take leave to doubt ) now that the lord King has made a packet of them , so to speak , for posterity .
28 TOP rugby coach Mostyn Richards has made a plea for all clubs to back fully the Mid-Wales District representative team .
29 When LIBRAFILE is purchased , the librarian has to make a copy of the master disk for day to day use .
30 The adult has made a change to the array — introduced garages irrelevant to the number of cars .
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