Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The US company backed with British money has made a hasty deal to put its much-publicised camera on general sale in Britain after Easter . |
| 2 | The company , which is now owned by British Aerospace has made a spectacular recovery from the heavy losses of the mid-eighties to announce pre-tax profits of sixty five million pounds last year . |
| 3 | The new development has attracted a £2and1/4 ; million grant from the department of trade and industry ; a regional spokesman says foreign investment has made a huge impact on Telford . |
| 4 | The Scottish Institute has made an urgent plea to Government to reduce the legislative burdens on small businesses by freeing them from the obligation of a statutory audit , and making it easier for them to disincorporate . |
| 5 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 6 | My hon. Friend has made a good point . |
| 7 | My hon. Friend has made a powerful point . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend has made an invaluable point . |
| 9 | My hon. Friend has made an excellent point , succinctly put , which has not yet been fully recognised by the Treasury . |
| 10 | My hon. Friend has made an important point . |
| 11 | If the hon. Gentleman wishes to make a particular point about his locality , he should write to me about it and I shall ensure that account is taken of his views . |
| 12 | I accept that the hon. Gentleman has made a fair point . |
| 13 | Certainly , the hon. Gentleman has made an important point . |
| 14 | The hon. Gentleman has made an important point . |
| 15 | The hon. Gentleman has made an important point . |
| 16 | As usual , the hon. Gentleman has made an interesting point . |
| 17 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 18 | ‘ The Labour council has made a terrible mess of Sheffield , ’ he says . |
| 19 | Japanese industry has made a real effort to reduce energy use and particularly to cut oil consumption . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the Established Church had made a substantial recovery . |
| 21 | THE CANADIAN government has made a complete about-face over the regulation of private satellite-TV dishes . |
| 22 | The father of a murdered prostitute has made a public appeal to help catch her killer . |
| 23 | But the chilly economic climate has made a tricky situation desperate , in two respects . |
| 24 | At that point , before any actual emergency had occurred in Algeria and before Coty or any other political leader had made a public appeal to him , de Gaulle declined . |
| 25 | Yes a hard disk does make a great deal of difference to how easy a machine is to use . |
| 26 | A century of coal-mining activity had made a depressing scene of this valley until imaginative landscaping during the last two decades transformed it . |
| 27 | Nothing traumatic happened ; there were just the ordinary ups and downs which would naturally have occurred in the life of a humble family striving to make a reasonable living in a somewhat precarious way . |
| 28 | A senior legal figure has made a strong attack on Government policy towards Scotland 's justice system . |
| 29 | No defence was provided for circumstances in which a reasonable person had made a conscious and informed choice to read , see or hear the work in question , provided only that some other reasonable person found it ‘ grossly offensive ’ for him to have done so . |
| 30 | She said a black man had made an obscene suggestion to her outside the ladies ’ loo . ’ |