Example sentences of "make a substantial [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | NORWEB not only paid the ELR a commercial rate for the daily goods train but also made a substantial donation to the ELR-coach restoration fund . |
| 2 | Venturi was a university teacher , son of a famous father , Adolpho Venturi , who had made a substantial contribution to the publication of documents of Italian art . |
| 3 | a geomorphologist who has made a substantial contribution which includes a considerable number of process-type contributions as well as some concerned more with evolutionary geomorphology , concluded after a review of three recent statements on the issue ( Dury , 1972 , p. 201 ) : |
| 4 | Now an education and training consultant , Dr. Strongitharm has made a substantial contribution to building education and has worked tirelessly for the Institute for almost 30 years . |
| 5 | As it happens ’ — Morse consulted his watch ostentatiously — ‘ he is very shortly due to take off from Kennedy Airport to fly back to Heathrow , and he has already made a substantial confession about his part in the strange circumstances surrounding the Wolvercote Tongue and Dr Theodore Kemp . |
| 6 | In his own words , the head had " always made a substantial allocation of money from capitation to the library in addition to that which was designated " library " " , but he felt that this designated sum was " never sufficient " . |
| 7 | The shares of Baldwins Ltd had made a substantial recovery . |
| 8 | Meanwhile , the Established Church had made a substantial recovery . |
| 9 | The Government have made a substantial investment towards the cost of improving the A4059 at Aberdare and Abercynon . |
| 10 | Where the defendant has innocently made a substantial investment on the basis of information innocently acquired it is most unlikely that an injunction would be granted to restrain him from making use of that information ( although the fact that an injunction might drive the defendant into liquidation is not relevant if the tests in American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon [ 1975 ] AC 396 have been satisfied ; per May LJ in Bullivant ( Roger ) Ltd v Ellis [ 1987 ] ICR 464 ) . |
| 11 | Perhaps the development by lay shareholders of the scepticism implied by Mr Smith 's survival techniques could make a substantial contribution to avoiding a repetition of the public shock that attended the corporate failures at the end of the 1980s . |
| 12 | There is a growing expectation , not least from WACC 's friends in Eastern and Central Europe and the Soviet Union , that our Christian association should make a substantial contribution to the ethical debate on communication . |
| 13 | The court decision means the pair , who are only in their twenties , could make a substantial fortune from the device , which enables the user to modify a computer game and get more use from it . |
| 14 | None of these could be regarded as solutions in themselves , but taken together , and in combination with other measures outlined in the new deal , they can make a substantial improvement . |
| 15 | A man of good reading , but few prospects could make a substantial killing with a 5 year contract . |
| 16 | ‘ Virgin 's success is clear evidence that a new entrant airline with tight management and a well-targeted approach can make a substantial impact . ’ |
| 17 | As far as BCCI is concerned , it is understood that a very high proportion of the loans made by BCCI have some sort of deposit associated , and this will obviously make a substantial difference to the amount which can be claimed on behalf of BCCI . |
| 18 | Most suppliers will offer early settlement discounts of around 2.5% and quantity discounts for larger orders , which can make a substantial difference to the margin . |
| 19 | What they do say is that the close coupling and phasing between the coprocessor and main processor makes a dramatic difference to coprocessor intensive applications , such as CAD , and will make a substantial difference to other coprocessor applications . |
| 20 | If this is anywhere near the true figure , would n't it be nice if Mr Dobson made a substantial donation to help fund treatment for the three-year-old handicapped boy , say £2,500 , plus another £2,500 for the echocardiograph appeal ? |
| 21 | Much later the Boots Pure Drug Co. endowed professorships in honour of Lord and Lady Trent which made a substantial contribution to the academic growth of the University . |
| 22 | To nobody 's surprise Colonel George Haldane secured his election for the Dunfermline district of burghs in 1754 , in spite of the enmity of the Duke of Argyll , and it must be conceded that the colonel 's ability to remove office holders made a substantial contribution to his victory . |
| 23 | The programme of motorway building played an important facilitating role , while direct government intervention made a substantial contribution in the form of the Location of Offices Bureau , large-scale slum clearance and the official overspill programme , the latter being expanded in the light of the mid-1960s projections of strong national population growth . |
| 24 | The programme of motorway building played an important facilitating role , while direct government involvement made a substantial contribution in the form of the Location of Offices Bureau , large-scale slum clearance and the official overspill programme , the latter being expanded in the light of the mid 1960s projections of strong national population growth ( Hamnett and Randolph , 1983a ; Robert and Randolph , 1983 ) . |
| 25 | This theme has also been taken up by a new Member who recently made a substantial contribution to the constitutional debate , Ian Duncan Smith , Member for Chingford . |
| 26 | But the towns were by no means insulated from its far-reaching effects , nor , within the towns , the trading community which made a substantial contribution to the wealth of the kingdom in this period . |
| 27 | An enterprising parents ' association at one primary school took on the short term lease of a shop in the local High Street in the pre-Christmas period and made a substantial profit by buying in stock from discount warehouses and retailing in competition with other traders . |
| 28 | Middlesbrough made a substantial profit last season , especially with two good Cup runs , and have an extra Premier League windfall . |
| 29 | MGM , Fox , Warner and RKO made a substantial number of films out of London , many of them spectaculars rather than authentically British productions , and a number of producers like Albert ( ‘ Cubby ’ ) Broccoli and Sam Spiegel moved from America to the UK . |
| 30 | Lérins itself was important in two ways ; first it played a major part in the promotion of monastic ideals in Gaul , and second it trained a succession of bishops who made a substantial impact on the Gallo-Roman , and later Frankish , Church . |