Example sentences of "[vb past] make [adj] progress " in BNC.
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| 1 | All the reading and yet she was n't even sure she 'd made any progress . |
| 2 | After 6 months of specialist treatment here at the National Spinal Injuries Unit , doctors said they 'd made miraculous progress . |
| 3 | Detectives leading the hunt for Mrs Campbell 's killers said today they 'd made vital progress . |
| 4 | Detectives leading the hunt for Mrs Campbell 's killers said today they 'd made vital progress . |
| 5 | Every upward inch was fought for — I pressed , kicked and squirmed to make upward progress . |
| 6 | Whether the ground actually became firmer or whether I was spurred on by fear I do not know , but I began to make better progress . |
| 7 | The young Ws began to make some progress socially , and Mr M said he felt all was going well . |
| 8 | Help with management skills , communication skills and language games improved their relationship and he started to make good progress in his language and his general behaviour . |
| 9 | For several hours they appeared to make little progress ; they were traversing a barren region of fine sand and yellowish clay , broken only by a few stunted , prickly bushes . |
| 10 | The CNAA , he and others believed , had made great progress in improving the standards of business studies , and had begun to do the same for management studies , but ‘ the job of improving management studies has hardly begun . |
| 11 | In mid-October a breakthrough seemed imminent after senior trade officials from Canada , the EC , Japan and the USA , meeting in Ontario on Oct. 17-18 , claimed that they had made substantial progress in resolving the deadlock ( responsible for the suspension of an earlier round of talks between US and EC officials in Brussels on Oct. 11-12 ) . |
| 12 | He mentioned oil , chemicals , engineering and electrical engineering , all of which had made solid progress . |
| 13 | A UN team visited Kuwait in March and reported that although a deliberate attempt had been made to " extinguish Kuwait " , the country had made good progress in dealing with immediate humanitarian needs [ see p. 38082 for mission to Iraq ] . |
| 14 | Under the privatisation proposal it was offering almost £14million for the rest of PPFE , which had made little progress since the Hong Kong flotation . |
| 15 | By 1907 ITF activity was regarded by the shipowners as sufficiently serious to justify the setting up of an International Shipping Federation " to combat the growing forces of socialism and aggressive trade unionism " , but in reality it had made little progress in establishing international standards and the British market for seamen was still being substantially undercut by lower rates of pay of foreign labour . |
| 16 | A Constitution Drafting Committee , which had been established soon after the formation of the LPDR in late 1975 [ see pp. 27541-43 ] , had made little progress during the LPDR 's first decade . |
| 17 | A Lake Chad Basin commission with representatives of Chad , Cameroon , Nigeria and Niger ( which all bordered on the lake ) had been established in 1964 but had made little progress . |
| 18 | The 10-day round of talks had made little progress by the end of February . |
| 19 | Not that he had made much progress on anything else . |
| 20 | However , three of the North-East 's Tory MPs dismissed Mr Milburn 's accusations and said the NHS reforms had made real progress in shortening hospital waiting lists . |
| 21 | But she had made huge progress , Lisa congratulated herself as she got ready to pack up at the end of another exhausting day . |
| 22 | Mr Sandeman said Leslie had made dramatic progress over the past 10 days . |
| 23 | He had made remarkable progress since coming into care . |
| 24 | Shildon had made remarkable progress in a short time but needed help as he was trying to do his normal work for the business section at the same time . |
| 25 | As a final bonus , he could pass on his expertise in the saddle and both Tamar and Victoria had made rapid progress under his guidance . |
| 26 | In a statement , the foreign ministers said political and economic reforms in Poland and Hungary had made considerable progress but added : ‘ The process remains fragile and could be called into question by economic problems . |
| 27 | It draws on data collected during 1992 from three contrasting health districts , all of which had made considerable progress in care programming . |
| 28 | A World Bank official reported that the government had made considerable progress in monetary and exchange rate policies . |
| 29 | He had made considerable progress during his week in Aberdeen 's Royal Cornhill Hospital and was anxious to get back to his job and re-establish his life . |
| 30 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |