Example sentences of "had made a [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Observers attributed the almost unanimous endorsement primarily to the united stand taken by the politburo ; even the leading conservative politburo member Yegor Ligachev had made a cautious speech at the plenum giving his backing for reform and democratization of the party . |
| 2 | In 1715 , Thomas Doggett , an Irishman who had made a successful career in London as an actor , theatre manager and author , instituted a race between six young watermen , donating the prize of an ornate jacket , cash in pocket and silver badge to the winner . |
| 3 | Livingstone himself had made a tentative start with the publication of the Londoner , a heavily subsidized but snappy tabloid free-sheet widely distributed throughout the GLC area . |
| 4 | Mrs Meacock and Araminta had made a first appearance in a short story , ‘ The Prerogative of Love ’ . |
| 5 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 6 | ‘ It does n't matter , ’ said Loretta , grateful that her unpremeditated action the day before had made a good impression on Veronica . |
| 7 | He must have been sixty or so , but you had to get close to see it and if his hair was grey , someone had made a good job of disguising the fact . |
| 8 | The malai photographers had made a good job of it , this genuine FAKINTIL atrocity . |
| 9 | Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case . |
| 10 | Others have had a boomerang effect by wiping out natural predators or by obligingly clearing the habitat for another , though equally troublesome , pest-Herbicides which killed poppies in wheatfields cleared the way for wild oats , so that until the ( very expensive ) sprays had been developed to cope with them , a trip through the eastern counties in midsummer could create the strong impression that oats had made a spectacular comeback as a cereals crop . |
| 11 | And they got a huge boost hours later when it was revealed that the president had made a spectacular recovery in the polls . |
| 12 | The ANC secretary-general , Cyril Ramaphosa , said the government had made a major concession on the issue of devolution of power to regional governments . |
| 13 | General Motors of America believed they had made a major breakthrough into the British market in 1985 when they persuaded Foster Yeoman to buy four specially constructed 3,300hp locomotives to haul heavy stone traffic from their Merehead quarry to locations in the South East . |
| 14 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |
| 15 | Callaghan had made a forced landing in a field , but they had seen him get out . |
| 16 | One afternoon we had made a forced march around the local countryside with our rucksacks on . |
| 17 | Worse still , after she had made a little money from the publication of a pamphlet containing her beastly poems about him , she commissioned a rubber dress from ‘ her designer ’ . |
| 18 | He had had the benefit of meetings with QC and QC , and had made a personal approach to the Lord Chancellor seeking possible improvements in the payment on account scheme , especially a reduction of the waiting period . |
| 19 | The Swedish Prime Minister , Ingvar Carlsson , had made a personal appeal for clemency to Saddam Hussein . |
| 20 | Coton had made a brilliant save from Speed , again demonstrating his great versatility at right-back , to preserve that advantage and the City goalkeeper , voted No 1 in the League by his fellow professionals , went on to make other important stops from Fairclough and Wallace to thwart a predictable Leeds rally early in the second half . |
| 21 | Perhaps I had made a ridiculous fuss about nothing . |
| 22 | Indeed , it was in a mood of celebration rather than panic that the garotters were actually toasted for having ‘ taken upon themselves the duty of upsetting a whole fabric of amiable delusions ’ concerning the reformation of criminals , and further congratulated that through their ‘ inexcusable crime ’ they had made a salutary impact on public opinion and ‘ created a general belief that right and wrong are , after all , essentially distinct ’ . |
| 23 | During interviews with journalists during March Prince Saad invariably answered questions concerning Kuwait 's future political system with a reference to the October 1990 " popular congress " in Saudi Arabia , at which the Amir had made a vague commitment to opposition leaders to restore the 1962 Constitution [ see p. 37759 ] . |
| 24 | 5 Corps had made a consequential agreement with Yugoslav Fourth Army that " any formation wrongly surrendered will be returned to Tito " . |
| 25 | She had made a new life for herself now in London , a better , much more successful life than Dublin . |
| 26 | By 1978 , their father had made a new life in Beirut where he met and married Gail , a nurse . |
| 27 | Davidson , who had previously been married for a total of less than five years to three different wives , said after falling for Tracie that she had made a new man of him . |
| 28 | Indeed , it was explicit in its judgment that the Public Order Act had made a new offence of prison riot unnecessary . |
| 29 | The conflict of interests was certainly a significant factor in the south-east , where the land tax was relatively highly assessed and where the new monied men had made a noticeable intrusion into local economic life , though it could also possess some degree of reality in more remote parts , such as South Wales . |
| 30 | It was also evident that those departments which had made a strong case for improved resourcing had gained from the appraisal . |