Example sentences of "[was/were] [verb] make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Langley submitted that , under the plain terms of the statute , it was the Bank and the Bank alone who were empowered to make the necessary judgment , with no interposition ( as in some other statutes ) of a judicial officer e.g. a commissioner in relation to certain statutory powers of the revenue . |
| 2 | Swindon having been beaten in the League Cup recently by Bicester , erm looked as though they were going to make a real match of it today when they scored in the eleventh minute . |
| 3 | ‘ Paul told me it was all over between us ; that it would never work out and that he and Sonia were going to make a fresh start . |
| 4 | We cascaded down the stairs as the dog decided he could take going downstairs in his stride — and seethed across the station into the sunshine of the great outdoors ; where I observed two large policemen surrounding my estate car , notebooks in hand — and under the obvious impression that they were abut to make an easy collar . |
| 5 | Before Marjorie Bridgman started Byfleet Art Group in 1968 , local artists were compelled to make a weekly coach journey to the nearest available class . |
| 6 | Before Marjorie Bridgman started Byfleet Art Group in 1968 , local artists were compelled to make a weekly coach journey to the nearest available class . |
| 7 | When they were asked to make a rhyming judgement , the shadowing interfered with performance , as it did with the judgements about rhyming word pairs . |
| 8 | They were asked to make a mouthwatering meal for four using two ducklings , a savoy cabbage , potatoes and up to 3lbs of other ingredients . |
| 9 | In the nineteenth century ( mainly during the latter half ) some Durham Shorthorns were imported to make the local type heavier in build and some Cassel bulls were also imported from France . |
| 10 | Rough Trade helped KLF 's ‘ 3 AM Eternal ’ obtain a Number One placing the very week the company were forced to make a large number of employees redundant . |
| 11 | Last night Buckingham Palace sources were forced to make an unprecedented denial that this trip would be the couple 's last together . |
| 12 | It had become evident by now that the sepoys were preparing to make a major assault in order to bring about the end of the siege . |
| 13 | The Commissioners were required to make a comprehensive inventory of the houses and buildings , even " … household stuff plate & implemt … " , and covered equipment , wheels etc . |
| 14 | One of the documents , an apparent memorandum from Mr John Moore , Mr Newton 's predecessor , said the choice of EDS was designed to make the computerised benefits network less vulnerable to industrial action . |
| 15 | Also , the importance of signs was stressed to make the whole area more friendly . |
| 16 | Before going to Beijing , on Oct. 7 Patten was expected to make a key policy speech to the Hong Kong legislative council , reports said . |
| 17 | A definition of that sort might allow the person addressed to take into account the fact that the person making the utterance was seeking to make a serious point , or engage him in reasoned discussion , or was acting unintentionally . |
| 18 | As Nether Wyresdale is a relatively small parish and does not have a large budget it was decided to make a one-off donation to the appeal . |
| 19 | The rain cast a decided dampener on their spirits and , as it became heavier , Geoffrey was moved to make a mild complaint . |
| 20 | However , at the next meeting of the North Wiltshire District Council 's Development and Planning Committee , a proposal was made to make the whole site a conservation area . |
| 21 | It was agreed to make a pictorial record of the village — houses , trees , buildings etc. to be retained by the Village Association . |
| 22 | To his surprise , he discovered that what was needed to make a powerful political speech was not the same gift as that which was needed to make a powerful sermon . |
| 23 | Much more information was needed to make the correct decision . |
| 24 | But much more information was needed to make the faithful model the men wanted to produce . |
| 25 | It had been all very well announcing that he was going to make a privateering cruise , but the preparations for it and the difficulties in getting a crew together had been enormous . |
| 26 | ‘ And suddenly , one night , after Jacqui had gone to bed , Marius suddenly said he was going to make a new will , and there was someone on holiday down there who was a solicitor — ’ |
| 27 | The question in Hunt 's mind , when I saw him at the beginning of the 1976 season , was whether changing teams and style was going to make a substantial difference in his way of life : in his informality , his private life , his sense of his own personal liberty . |
| 28 | OK , so he was well-built , and he was going to make a tough opponent , but there had to be some chink she could work at . |
| 29 | It takes us from the 19th century through to the 1930s and 1940s and the pioneering work of a number of embroiderers , in particular Constance Howard , who in 1951 was invited to make a large-scale work for the Festival of Britain . |
| 30 | ON day two of MP-TV Nicholas Ridley was scheduled to make a live appearance before the cameras — or , as it turned out from his speech , a dead appearance . |