Example sentences of "[adv] have made [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , if pursuant to the will of X the property is vested in Y as legatee and Y subsequently sells the property for £550,000 , Y will only have made a taxable gain ( subject to the indexation allowance ) of £50,000 . |
| 2 | Unfortunately they are not usually repeatable , so having made a superb jumper for your mother , you will probably be unable to make one for yourself . |
| 3 | The landlord will not have made a taxable supply to the tenant and so can not issue a tax invoice , preventing the tenant from claiming input relief . |
| 4 | Tim could not have made a better choice . ’ |
| 5 | As confirmation of the significance Harry had detected in Heather 's photographs , Mossop 's retraced route of three months before could not have made a better start . |
| 6 | Holmes says : ‘ Steve could not have made a better start to his outdoor season and it opens up all sorts of possibilities . |
| 7 | He could not have made a finer creature in his own vats . |
| 8 | If my son had been on medication at the end of last year he would not have made an unprovoked attack on his father in November , nor attempted to share his New Year 's Eve lunch with the lions . |
| 9 | Louise would not have made an unsuccessful marriage in the first place , and she supposed her marriage must be unsuccessful , because Edward had told her that she was not a woman . |
| 10 | Smaller companies or companies not having made a previous acquisition will often ask us to act as intermediaries . |
| 11 | On July 12 Castro congratulated the deputies on " not having made the least concession in these difficult moments " ( referring to the growing economic crisis ) . |
| 12 | So he just kicked himself for not having made the obvious connection . ’ |
| 13 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 14 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 15 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 16 | But in numerical terms this factor can hardly have made a major impact — the Max Planck Institutes permanently employ only 2000 researchers , compared with a total of 76 000 university academics of whom more than 20 000 are professors . |
| 17 | Darlington could hardly have made a worse start , goalkeeper Mark Prudhoe and his fellow defenders standing frozen to the spot as Preece smartly turned and shot into the top left corner in the ninth minute . |
| 18 | With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start . |
| 19 | When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start . |
| 20 | He also found that Locke , once having made a similar distinction , provided no good reason for belief in a world over and above the ideas we have of it . |
| 21 | People may drift into a job without ever having made a positive decision . |
| 22 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 23 | Certainly the letters he had written home had made no great fuss about the child 's death . |
| 24 | A woman accused of stealing thousands of pounds from a charity that she helped set up has made a further appearance in court . |
| 25 | Given firm instructions the dismissed minister would probably have made a better reformer than his successor , S. S. Lanskoi , who in August 1855 " proclaimed the rights of the nobility to be inviolable " . |
| 26 | Moreover , now that I come to think of it , it is perhaps not so surprising that it should also have made a deep impression on Miss Kenton given certain aspects of her relationship with my father during her early days at Darlington Hall . |
| 27 | The unanimous condemnation of marriage as a trade by the feminist movement may also have made a significant contribution to the new emphasis on marriage as a partnership . |
| 28 | This marked a significant departure from previous foreign policy priorities which traditionally had made the Soviet Union the first place to be visited by a new Prime Minister . |
| 29 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 30 | The individual teacher may well have made a significant development in his or her own understanding , but that is not a sufficient condition of securing publication ( thesis three ) . |