Example sentences of "[vb -s] made [pron] [noun] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 However , since then their oil prices have increased and the strength of the US dollar has made their exports to the UK less competitive .
2 Government legislation for futher and higher education has made its mark in the form of implementation of the Further and Higher Education Act 1992 ( and associated legislation in Scotland and Wales ) .
3 It has made its way into the whisky business in the past three years by re-opening the Littlemill and Glen Scotia malt distilleries in Bowling and Campbeltown .
4 This is the more remarkable since by this time , its mother may have already given birth to another tiny baby that has made its way to the pouch and is fastened on to a teat imbibing milk of a quite different composition .
5 Labour 's new Scottish spokesman George Robertson has made his debut in the Commons by calling Scottish Secretary Ian Lang a pick pocket .
6 Labour 's new Scottish spokesman George Robertson has made his debut in the Commons by calling Scottish Secretary Ian Lang a pick pocket .
7 The effect of section 87 is to ensure that a qualified member of the tenant 's family who has made his home with the tenant shall not lose his home when the tenant dies but shall succeed to that home and to the secure tenancy which protected both the tenant and the successor while the tenant was alive and which shall continue to protect the successor after the death of the tenant .
8 The local authority will know whether if they let the council house to the tenant the house will also be occupied by a potential successor who has made his home with the tenant .
9 Thus speaks a man who has made his reputation in the pop genre .
10 ‘ In the last few minutes one of the party of missing students — ’ Kath let out her breath on a gust ‘ — has made his way to the surface , and he has told us that there are still two men trapped below here , ’ he announced in the earnest voice of sepulchral doom so favoured by reporters at the scene of an incident .
11 But man also has made his mark in the many ancient monuments , castles and churches that dot the countryside and small villages .
12 But plainly a man who has made his mark in the world , if he is already being sent for .
13 I wish to move an amendment which is erm , that we defer any decision on this until the property , the director of property services has made his report to the property sub- committee on the erm , future , stroke to the organisation , which is th , the subject of his next report to property sub- committee .
14 All this is God 's doing , for he has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ ; and he has made us agents of the reconciliation . ’ 2 Corinthians 5:17
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