Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ When it 's all done and Michel has made an honest woman of her , Constanza wants us to go to Rome , the three of us , and pay our respects to her papa . |
2 | When we return to the apartment , Maria has made a full confession and is asking Glass to help Leonard out of Berlin . |
3 | Even dark green have to acknowledge that Julia Hailes has made an important contribution . |
4 | Mr Haszeldine has made a formal complaint to the ward councillors , saying the rats are coming from the depot because it is not kept clean . |
5 | Oxfordshire snooker star Tessa Davidson has made the big break into the game 's elite . |
6 | Now VW has made a strong comeback with its 1,588cc diesel for the Golf 40 years later . |
7 | Mr Kelly has made a formal complaint against the police and is to lodge one against the ambulance service . |
8 | Writer Stephen Poliakoff has made an exciting cinema debut with ‘ Close My Eyes ’ — the story of an obsessive love that unfolds during a sweltering English summer . |
9 | While their forwards were outplayed , though Andy Macdonald won the occasional good lineout ball , Heriot 's competed gamely and the arrival of young Lawrie has made a huge difference to their back play , and especially to centres Stoddart and McRobbie , who appear much more confident than earlier in the season . |
10 | President Ishaq has made a dignified statement about his enthusiasm for upholding the constitution . |
11 | Already the rosy periwinkle from Madagascar has made a major contribution to curing childhood leukaemia and other blood cancers . |
12 | This is not to deny that Volvo has made a significant innovation in work organisation and production technology , but it is one evolutionary step and not a revolution . |
13 | Boccaccio 's Decameron and a thousand porno movies may have said it before , but director Fernando Trueba has made an enjoyable comedy full of sunlight and incident out of wry eroticism and some excellent acting . |
14 | Waddle has made an excellent start to his new career in France , where he is the major single investment in Marseille 's campaign for domestic and European success . |
15 | Considering that Coward and Lawrence only ever appeared together twice in adult life , in Private Lives and Tonight at 8.30 , Mr Morley manages to make a little go a long way . |
16 | Fredric Jameson has made a vigorous statement of this difficulty : |
17 | Christopher Ricks , trailing his coat in the wake of the MacCabe Affair , claimed that the critic should have ‘ principles ’ rather than ‘ theory ’ , while Stanley Fish has made a comparable distinction between ‘ theory , ’ and ‘ belief ’ : ‘ A theory is a special achievement of consciousness ; a belief is a prerequisite for being conscious at all . |
18 | Mary Havern , from Newry , races in her third world trophy event while newcomer Anne Sandford has made a superb transition from the world of cycling to top class fell running . |
19 | Mary Havern , from Newry , races in her third world trophy event while newcomer Anne Sandford has made a superb transition from the world of cycling to top class fell running . |
20 | CTB has to make a distinctive mark . ’ |
21 | In another move , Brabant Resources , for which Aberdeen has made an all-share offer , said it had received a second bid approach which could lead to a cash offer . |
22 | And Maastricht promises to make the Europe-machine turn still faster because it pre-emptively convokes the next set of constitutional talks for 1996 . |
23 | Carol Dyhouse has made a special study of women and education . |
24 | All rounder Kevin Dixon has made a big impact , hitting two half centuries and also taking wickets . |
25 | To overcome this , Hoechst has made a new backing from recycled PVC . |
26 | Strathclyde has made a direct appeal to the Scottish education minister , Lord James Douglas-Hamilton , to change the legislation so that closure programmes are not caught up in lengthy delays . |
27 | Jimmy Goddard has made a creative leap in linking the sites corresponding to the elements through the medium of sound . |
28 | The commission , subject to parliamentary ratification , approves staffing levels in the National Audit Office ; as only one member of this commission is a minister , the Commons has made the National Audit Office remarkably independent of ministers . |
29 | ‘ Dewi Morris has made a tremendous difference to England . |
30 | Robert Williams has made a bright start to the season and can continue the good work by winning the Jonnie Mullings Memorial Handicap for his new main owner Lord Matthews . |