Example sentences of "[pron] make a [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In no case did I make a formal approach to the top management of any of the firms to get approval or support for the research . |
| 2 | I also like to give credit where it is due , and would , therefore , like to thank members of the Great Central Railway who were very helpful and friendly when I made a recent visit to Rothley and Loughborough as an ordinary visitor . |
| 3 | He added : ‘ I made a tremendous start to the year and badly wanted that No 1 spot for the first time but it made me become negative . |
| 4 | I made a mental note to myself that if the doctor on her case set that beautiful leg anything other than back the way it should be , then he had better start looking for a good dentist . |
| 5 | On the one occasion when I made a direct appeal to her , in connection with the battle against the closed shop for journalists which I describe later , her response was gratifyingly supportive and it was no fault of hers that she was unable to persuade Lord Hailsham to a course of action that might well have altered journalistic history . |
| 6 | No-one else in our aircraft appeared to be the least bit concerned , but my relief as we finally drew near the coast of England again and then began our descent to the safety of solid earth was so great that I made a little promise to myself that I would never again set foot in an aeroplane , so long as I could be permitted to survive this one trip . |
| 7 | The instant I realised that we had a picture I made a steep turn to starboard and a downward movement , simultaneously I was aware of a slight tremor in the aircraft in the region of the bomb bay . |
| 8 | ( To Nick [ disguised as a girl ] ) Suppose I made an indecent suggestion to you ? |
| 9 | I think I probably wasted a lot of time not feeling good about myself , and I would n't want Deb to feel like that , so I make a deliberate effort to be supportive , to say she looks nice and notice what she 's wearing , that kind of thing . |
| 10 | He himself made an extended visit to the West at the outset of his reign and on his return he created consternation — and a legend — by his impatience to change the face of Russia . |
| 11 | Here he describes the unprecedented amount of sculpture he has found , whose quality demonstrates that the sculptors of Aphrodisias were no mere copyists but artists ofa distinctive school which made a major contribution to ancient art . |
| 12 | Much later the Boots Pure Drug Co. endowed professorships in honour of Lord and Lady Trent which made a substantial contribution to the academic growth of the University . |
| 13 | But the towns were by no means insulated from its far-reaching effects , nor , within the towns , the trading community which made a substantial contribution to the wealth of the kingdom in this period . |
| 14 | But they had a lively fear that enclosure might rob them of their valuable rights — rights which made a real difference to their standard and their mode of living — in the interests of the large freeholders and a corporation known to be corrupt . |
| 15 | These were the only two factors which made a significant contribution to the persistence of symptoms . |
| 16 | Also the subject of slugs , he felt , was not one which made an easy stepping-stone to such delicate matters as he himself had in mind . |
| 17 | I deliberately chose the hydrangeas for their pointed petals , which made an interesting contrast to the very rounded shapes of the yellow potentillas and the roses . |
| 18 | The claim that individuals are the proper locus of explanation because they could do otherwise , and the claim that their actions are indeed important independent variables which make a substantial difference to the course of events are precisely the claims that must be argued for , rather than merely stated . |
| 19 | Is it therefore possible to separate out those aspects of ‘ Motherese ’ which make a positive contribution to language learning from those which are merely incidental and possibly those which are actually detrimental ? |
| 20 | On Jan. 25 Havel visited Poland , meeting President Wojciech Jaruzelski and Prime Minister Tadeusz Mazowiecki ( who had himself made a working visit to Prague three days earlier ) , and addressing a joint session of both houses of parliament . |
| 21 | Still Life & A Classical Education by Richard Cobb ( Hogarth Press , £9.99 ) — Richard Cobb 's double autobiography has an impressionistic quality , which makes a welcome contrast to the excess of detail and interminable name-dropping of most contemporary memoirs . |
| 22 | The optic tract projects to a number of anatomically distinct regions in the brainstem , each of which makes a unique contribution to visual function . |
| 23 | An innovative attempt to distinguish between the more objectionable forms of cheque-book journalism and the literature which makes a significant contribution to the culture or contributes to the prevention of crime or the rehabilitation of offenders is being made in Victoria , Australia , where the Crimes ( Confiscation of Profits ) Amendment Act 1991 ( Vic. ) , although expanding the concept of ‘ benefit ’ to include the profits of criminal expression , will provide a court with discretion to decide whether or not to treat the profits as a ‘ benefit ’ for the purposes of the Act . |
| 24 | In addition , Colwell et al ( 1978 ) have postulated that abnormal platelet function secondary to the diabetic state may contribute to the development of the specific microvascular disease of diabetics which makes an important contribution to morbidity and mortality in the diabetic population , principally through retinopathy , nephropathy and neuropathy and possibly also a cardiopathy ( Keen & Jarrett , 1982 ) . |
| 25 | If I screw up , any time , you make an anonymous call to Kemp telling him what to look for . |
| 26 | One evening , she made a rare outing to the local discotheque in her home town of Dusseldorf . |
| 27 | With Puddephat 's disappearance in the news , it would not seem odd if she made a casual reference to it over dinner . |
| 28 | She made a major contribution to Macmillan London , which she leaves as a profitable and successful part of the group . ’ |
| 29 | Now Tim appears to have rekindled Princess Anne 's interest in sailing — she paid £94,000 for the 36-footer Blue Doublet earlier this year — and last year she made a glowing contribution to a celebrity compilation of ideas of Paradise . |
| 30 | ‘ Did she make an official complaint to you about the attack ? ’ |