Example sentences of "have made [art] [adj] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted . |
| 2 | Alison spent 17 days in hospital after the shooting , but has made a good recovery and is back home in Trimdon Avenue , Acklam , Middlesbrough . |
| 3 | Estall has made a serious mistake that could prove his undoing . |
| 4 | ‘ It would seem the Chinese government has made a decisive move and decision to put 4 June behind it , ’ a Hong Kong-based human rights activist , John Kamm , said . |
| 5 | ‘ The kid has made a dramatic improvement though , with a little help from Martin Hodge . |
| 6 | The European Commission has made a sudden U-turn and invested approximately £860,000 in wave power feasibility studies . |
| 7 | When we return to the apartment , Maria has made a full confession and is asking Glass to help Leonard out of Berlin . |
| 8 | ‘ He has made a remarkable recovery and was working last night , addressing the British Musical Society . |
| 9 | ‘ Fergie has made a big mistake and I 'm sure the decision will haunt him for years to come . ’ |
| 10 | He has made an impressive start though to DIY , successfully wallpapering a cupboard — inclusive of feature border ! |
| 11 | If the defendant has made an interim payment before he pays in , his notice must specifically refer to the interim payment and aggregate the two amounts if he is to put the plaintiff at risk for the total . |
| 12 | Order 29 , r17 provides for adjustment at trial between a defendant who has made an interim payment and his co-defendants who are found liable to the plaintiff . |
| 13 | The third sister , Mrs. Price has made an imprudent marriage as she has allowed her feeling to overtake her judgement and finally ends up with little money and too many children . |
| 14 | Now its Oriental admirer has made an acceptable offer and the match is made , barring only the appearance of another admirer with more money . |
| 15 | The basic issue , which Mr Fallon has so far managed to avoid totally in discussing this matter , yet which has made the Catholic community and the county council so anxious and so frustrated , is whether this Government accepts that places in Catholic schools should be provided for Catholic pupils . |
| 16 | John Baillie has made the further point that , in his detailed criticism of cyclical views of time , St Augustine was anxious to defend the doctrine of creation and particularly its corollary that ‘ through the creative power of God the course of events is characterized by the emergence of genuine novelty . ’ |
| 17 | As juniors the two American teenagers were mentioned in the same breath as Andre Agassi and Michael Chang , but neither has made the same impact as yet . |
| 18 | Legal claims for medical injury must normally be filed within three years , but the High Court has made the unusual decision that Keith can sue for damages , 25 years after his operation . |
| 19 | He 'd made a good start but now he was faltering , and the focus of attention was drifting slowly away from him . |
| 20 | But by the end of our first year in Cornwall she 'd made a few friends and I was n't being bullied so much , so life became a little easier . |
| 21 | The psychological structure for the talker requires , broadly speaking , two kinds of pretence : ( 1 ) an emotional one of having made a momentous decision and ( 2 ) a fictitious factual background . |
| 22 | Theoretically , it is conceivable that , say , experiencing regret ( the verb ) at having made a wrong decision and depicting regret ( the adjective ) are a different genre . |
| 23 | You may have made a genuine mistake or misrepresented a situation . |
| 24 | If it did act , it would have made a jurisdictional error and its decision would be a nullity . |
| 25 | She could n't have made a better selection than Keep Talking , a progressive horse both in terms of form and distance . |
| 26 | Given firm instructions the dismissed minister would probably have made a better reformer than his successor , S. S. Lanskoi , who in August 1855 " proclaimed the rights of the nobility to be inviolable " . |
| 27 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 28 | SUPER SAVER DAVID JAMES may have made a few mistakes but he is learning all the time , says Liverpool boss Graeme Souness ( inset ) . |
| 29 | As the car chugged down the M1 motorway I stopped cursing my bad luck and thought of how we could have made the first descent if only we had concentrated on the job in hand and not got the press involved or told so many people all about our daring endeavour . |
| 30 | The right hon. and learned Gentleman could have made the shortest speech that he has ever made in the House . |