Example sentences of "make great [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An indication that the acceptability of the concept of headhunting has made great progress among employers in Britain is the fact that many of the respondents attested to search consultants ' knowledge of the executive market place , gained over a number of years , and their expertise in certain specialised sectors . |
| 2 | Some teams have made great progress : if well organised they can screen diabetic patients at least as well as outpatient clinics . |
| 3 | 1971 ) has made great progress as a geologist who used the wing cases of fossil beetles ( Coleoptera ) to indicate climatic characteristics of palaeoenvironments because coleoptera are very sensitive to changes in wetness and dryness . |
| 4 | We have made great progress in our planning systems and in production efficiencies . |
| 5 | Clearly , we have made great progress in bringing inflation under control and we shall soon have a lower rate of inflation than Germany for the first time in a generation . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The women had made great play with brooms and buckets , sweeping the pavement around the policeman 's feet till he was forced to jump over them to avoid being floored . |
| 8 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 9 | As expected , in trying to persuade you to take their shares , Anglo-Welsh have made great play of their recent growth in profits . |
| 10 | Erm the North Yorkshire County Council have made great play and we did n't know it was coming in until we got that information , upon the public consultation document . |
| 11 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 12 | Clever Folly has made great improvement this season , winning three of his five races and he is only 1lb out of the handicap . |
| 13 | I do n't know though , it would have made great television . |
| 14 | Further , the word ‘ communion ’ , a term again involving a verbal identification of Church and Eucharist , was so much used by the Council that it has subsequently been seen to express the Council 's ecclesiology most profoundly and has been made great use of in such documents as those of ARCIC . |
| 15 | Virtually all the Japanese martial arts use it as a means of producing extra power from within the body — just as weightlifters make great grunting and groaning noises when attempting a particularly heavy lift . |
| 16 | Start a lifelong love affair with horses on a 5 day Learn to Ride holiday ; make great progress with your riding on 5 day Improve your Riding holidays . |
| 17 | ‘ If I concentrate 20,000 men , ’ wrote Bessières , worn out in the north by 1811 , ‘ all my communications are lost and the insurgents make great progress . |
| 18 | Here , on an acre formerly abounding in thistles and docks , we have woven our own covert of windbreaks and fuchsia bushes and make great play of raising cabbages where cabbages — or at least , where sweetcorn , courgettes and petits pois — were hardly intended to grow . |
| 19 | The appearance of the countryside — uplands included — has always been changing and the Farming Unions , in particular , make great play of this suggesting that the losses of rough grassland and moorland in recent years are merely a part of continual agricultural change . |
| 20 | Arnie may not win many Oscars , but the big guy 's action-packed movies sure make great computer games . |
| 21 | Folk make great issue , perhaps he was frightened of what others may think ? |
| 22 | The soups are delicious broths , while the Japanese make great use of fish , both cooked and raw . |
| 23 | For me , personally , New Order make great disco music but there 's no black people in that group . |
| 24 | Of course , pseudo scientific claims also make great advertising copy — that 's not to say these products are just clever gimmicks . |
| 25 | Poole remarked that the choice of Stravinsky music horrified many people ( this was long before the composer had been understood or accepted by general audiences ) and the score ‘ made great difficulty for the cast but none at all for John ’ . |
| 26 | I remember erm was n't it Eyre that made great mileage of saying that just because there 's a word for beauty does n't mean to say that there 's such a thing as beauty . |
| 27 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |
| 28 | And GPU 's lawyers made great play of a document , written by Babcock staff before the TMI accident , that suggested new procedures to recognise the signs of impending accidents before they happen . |
| 29 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |
| 30 | Spittals made great play of tapping the microphones and checking that they worked before he introduced the superintendent . |