Example sentences of "make a special [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ brewing ’ ( sic ) group 's might organ , Twitbread News , informs me that Twitters have made a special award to Paul McCartney as ‘ Scouse Personality of the Year ’ . |
| 2 | It was announced on Dec. 18 that former Foreign Minister Acheikh bin Oumar had been made a special councillor to Déby . |
| 3 | I KNEW that Earl Spencer had made a special provision in his will . |
| 4 | The South African Area continues to work hard in support of both the Association and the RAF Benevolent Fund , and has made a special effort this year , the 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain . |
| 5 | Mr Major has made a special effort to patch up relations with Germany . |
| 6 | In the poor north-eastern part of Brazil infant mortality went up by 20 per cent between 1982 and 1984 , even though the Brazilian government had made a special effort to establish more health-care facilities during the same period . |
| 7 | As he had made a special point of emphasizing ; there was absolutely no room for friendship or personal favours in this business . |
| 8 | The Copenhagen school had made a special point of emphasising that one ought never to think of quantum mechanical systems without also annexing to them the array of classical measuring instruments with which it was proposed to make the observations . |
| 9 | Made a special point of coming there because they knew my mother would give them a bowl of soup or what was ever on . |
| 10 | Did he imagine she 'd made a special attempt to impress him ? |
| 11 | She says she 's made a special cake and wants us to help eat it up . ’ |
| 12 | The first assumption originated in the fact that because Morgan had made a special study of the Iroquois , where the status of women is comparatively high , he assumed uncritically that this high status would be found among other people at a similar level of technological advancement . |
| 13 | Dr John Watkins , a GP in Rogerstone , Gwent , who has made a special study of flu , stressed yesterday that it was not too late for high-risk groups to be vaccinated . |
| 14 | Counter attacking , the defence brought in a consultant neurologist who testified , on the basis of medical records and EEG tests , to the likelihood of brain damage in Mr X in childhood , and a second clinical psychologist , who had made a special study of faking and said that Mr X could n't fake an IQ test to save his life , or words to that effect . |
| 15 | At the Food Research Institute Dr David Southgate , who has made a special study of dietary fibre and whose research is the source of the scientific textbook fibre figures , has provided analytical values for the dietary fibre in a range of usefully fibre-rich canned and packaged foods , so that for the first time these products , which form such a major part of modern eating , can be realistically assessed and used for health value . |
| 16 | Some sociologists have made a special study of these ‘ statistic-producing ’ processes . |
| 17 | To one who had made a special study of refraction , the answer was obvious . |
| 18 | They have a new , quiet , charming , and very well qualified resident doctor Doctor Booth , who has made a special study of excess weight , and whom I found full of sound advice . |
| 19 | During those periods of service on overseas railways he had made a special study of existing types of articulated locomotive , such as the Fairlie , Meyer , and Mallet , and the problems involved in achieving , especially on narrow-gauge track , adequate stability , traction , and speed . |
| 20 | I 've made a special study of him , you see . |
| 21 | I 've made a special study of the ben Issachar clan . |
| 22 | Professor Dick Laughton is a geographer from Liverpool , who 's made a special study of the relationship between people and planning . |
| 23 | Carol Dyhouse has made a special study of women and education . |
| 24 | ‘ Castlemilk was made a special initiative area by the Government and major improvements to housing and the environment have taken place . |
| 25 | Working with Antonio Bonicco , the designer of Transfer 's show ‘ The Time of Her Life ’ , you will make a special installation to develop the basic set in order that the play has a spectacular opening . |
| 26 | Can I make a special request ? |
| 27 | The police authority has been facing serious difficulty in meeting the additional costs arising from the disturbances in Tyneside in September , so I am pleased to announce today that the Government will make a special payment towards those costs , at a rate of 95 per cent . |
| 28 | I suppose the best Christmases I knew happened over at Clove Lodge where Mr and Mrs Atkinson and the Misses Hind would always make a special thing of it . |
| 29 | You would n't make a special cake as a present with long out-of-date flour and stale eggs so do n't think that any old ingredients will do for making a pressed flower picture . |
| 30 | So the male comandantes would make a special point of saluting women comandantes in front of their troops as an example for them . |