Example sentences of "[noun] make a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Macdonald made a series of quota quickies before going on to a larger budget with the striking comedy-thriller This Man is News ( 1938 ) , and Michael Powell built a reputation as a director of energetic quota films before making his mainstream début with Edge of the World ( 1937 ) , about the depopulation of a remote island in the Shetlands . |
| 2 | DISNEY shares went into freefall yesterday as its chairman made a £74 million killing on the stock market . |
| 3 | You and Great-Aunt Alicia make a pair . |
| 4 | Spurs made a £810,000 profit in the six months to November , 1991 . |
| 5 | De la Mare made a series of charges against Latimer , Neville , Alice Perrers and Richard Lyons . |
| 6 | Wassall made a £113.2m hostile bid for Evode which then entered into discussions with Laporte about a recommended bid of above £1 a share . |
| 7 | With the head on its side make a series of cuts straight in with the corner chisel along the curve of the cheek , and cut away the waste on the neck side of the line . |
| 8 | Accounts recently published show the club made a £3m loss in the last financial year . |
| 9 | Use a small split cane the width of the seed tray to make a series of depressions in the levelled compost . |
| 10 | Anachem made a £2.2m pre-tax profit on turnover of £11.8m in the year to end-September , and had £2.5m of net cash at the end of March . |
| 11 | Fasten the two ends with sticky tape and push against the fold lines to make a fish shape . |
| 12 | The bird is much the liner of the two , of course — I 'm only taking the dragon to make a pair with the bird . |
| 13 | The group made a £597m charge to cover possible bad debts . |
| 14 | In 1636 Mersenne made a series of tests on wires of different materials but it is doubtful if any use was made of the information . |
| 15 | American Airlines made a $215m loss in the fourth quarter of 1990 , while on January 23rd Delta reported that it went $208m into the red during the same period , the biggest quarterly loss in its history . |
| 16 | Everton stayed calm , Keown , Ablett and Jackson made a series of crucial tackles , clearances and interceptions and the visitors weathered the storm . |
| 17 | A tragic process began to unfold and faced with a entrancement they could not understand , officials made a series of misjudgments that would end in an even greater loss of life . |
| 18 | There are slight stylistic differences in the execution of the relief work , and it may be that one cup is an exotic , a Minoan import , and the other was made by a Mycenean craftsman to make a pair ; on balance , I think it more likely that both are Minoan ( Figure 31 ) . |
| 19 | In the permanent income hypothesis , Friedman makes a series of assumptions regarding the statistical relationships that exist between permanent and transitory consumption , permanent and transitory income and transitory income and consumption . |
| 20 | Rabuka made a series of confusing statements during 1990-91 , but appeared to indicate that he continued to harbour political ambitions , including a desire to be Prime Minister . |
| 21 | But the economy remained weak and Bush made a series of mistakes and miscalculations throughout the fall and winter . |
| 22 | Another approach is typified by BTR , an acquisitive British conglomerate which this month made a $1.6 billion bid for Norton , an American abrasives group . |
| 23 | Instead , they are the result of people making a series of decisions about what has happened . |
| 24 | But why go to all that trouble to make a 2D character appear solid when you could generate it on a computer in 3D in the first place ? |
| 25 | From I87 1 the Japanese government made a series of moves aimed at incorporating the islands into the national administrative framework , but these unilateral steps were strongly contested by the Chinese , who also claimed suzerainty . |
| 26 | Bosses Richard Bryan , Colin Stone and Brian Nathan could n't afford to give their 141 workers a rise after their tool hire firm made a £291,000 pre-tax loss . |
| 27 | In response , Britain made a series of halfhearted , and finally somewhat desperate , attempts to become ‘ European ’ instead . |
| 28 | The old man made a series of ticks down the right-hand side of the buff form before telling Charlie to report back to the chap with the three white stripes . |
| 29 | The instructor may have been wondering if the height was going to be sufficient for a normal approach even though the student had already cut out the base leg to make a 180° turn on to finals . |
| 30 | Awareness of the role of key individuals leads Wiener to make a series of points about how research is organized . |