Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] made a [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 Smaller companies or companies not having made a previous acquisition will often ask us to act as intermediaries .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 ) .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 With Gatting dropping out of the Lord 's Test at his own request , Emburey could hardly have made a better start .
15 When Gary Bennett gave them a fourth-minute lead against promotion-chasing Leicester , the Roker Park side could hardly have made a better start .
16 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 .
17 People may drift into a job without ever having made a positive decision .
18 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 .
19 A woman accused of stealing thousands of pounds from a charity that she helped set up has made a further appearance in court .
20 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 " .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica .
24 As far as Rose was concerned even Stitch made a welcome division from Naseby .
25 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 ) .
26 I would n't have made a good martyr , for the frown of the tyrant alarmed me more than the threat of wild beasts or the rack .
27 She could n't have made a better selection than Keep Talking , a progressive horse both in terms of form and distance .
28 Sometimes , it wondered whether dinosaurs would n't have made a better job of civilisation .
29 She knew that he did n't much care for André , but he could at least have made a better attempt at disguising it .
30 Er I think I should certainly have made a better nurse , yes , yes I think I should .
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