Example sentences of "[verb] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Karate has made great strides in the fields of sport and entertainment in recent years , so that there are now semi- and full-contact karate sports as well as kickboxing . |
| 32 | ‘ Since 1989 , the industry has made great strides in getting costs down and output up , and maintaining high standards of safety and environmental protection , ’ he said . |
| 33 | This year the new editorial team has made great strides to develop the editorial content within a limited budget . |
| 34 | Plastic surgery has made great strides since the pioneering techniques of the Guinea Pig Club during World War II . |
| 35 | The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years in cleaning up the town and making it the kind of place which is able to compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 36 | ‘ The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years , and making it the kind of place which is able and compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 37 | Kinnock has made great changes and one admires the way he has manipulated the Labour Party towards reality . |
| 38 | In an age where liberty has made great advances in the world , there is still conflict , instability and want , causing great misery and inhibiting the peace and co-operation which we want to help to build . |
| 39 | Indeed Butzer is a geographer who has made great contributions in defining a field of Pleistocene Geography which was the term used as a subtitle for his book on Environment and Archaeology first published in 1964 . |
| 40 | Clever Folly has made great improvement this season , winning three of his five races and he is only 1lb out of the handicap . |
| 41 | The recession has made small practices particularly vulnerable , as they lose fee income through clients ' going out of business ; nor do they get paid for work in progress , says Ernst & Young insolvency practitioner Alan Lovett . |
| 42 | Britain has made similar appeals to the court in the past but lost them . |
| 43 | She has reintroduced a Dutch Open , and has made impressive strides in terms of organising the first European-based Solheim Cup , the women 's equivalent of the Ryder Cup . |
| 44 | But although this discovery has made accurate diagnosis much easier , the way in which the expansion occurs remains to be understood . |
| 45 | In the three Education Acts passed during their first nine years of power , the Conservative government has made parental influence and involvement a central issue . |
| 46 | Banking services and finance companies continued to trade profitably in spite of higher interest rates and the group 's network of independent financial advisers , has made good progress , although slower than envisaged . |
| 47 | On the second erm erm issue the commitments in Greater York , erm Mr has has made good progress erm on this erm and he 's been had discussions this morning with er district colleagues and hopefully we we are nearly there on that one . |
| 48 | Though the DHA has made good provision for assessment and diagnosis , accommodation for those requiring long-term care , which is provided primarily by the private sector , was found to be insufficient . |
| 49 | Investment capital group 3i has made new investments worth £275m in the six months up to March , nearly 90pc more than the figure for the corresponding period a year ago . |
| 50 | The firm introduced Signet , a tailor-made computer system which has made financial accounting very much faster and also handles word processing requirements . |
| 51 | The testator has made various bequests ( of what kind we are not told ) in favour of Pamphilus . |
| 52 | She has made various publications on the subject of HIV infection/AIDS and hepatitis in haemophiliacs , including books of collected papers on hepatitis and blood product therapy . |
| 53 | The emphasis on care in the community , the reduction of institutional type beds has made mental health nursing a challenging but exciting specialty . |
| 54 | Then , if there is no further movement , it should be obvious that the ferret has made firm contact and will be attempting to kill the rabbit . |
| 55 | And the greater integration of individual countries into trading blocs ( Europe , North America , Southern Africa , Latin America ) has made gentle progress towards some form of global administration ( rather than government ) seem more natural and inevitable . |
| 56 | The SeHCAT test has made intestinal bile acid malabsorption much more easy to detect . |
| 57 | The particularly complicated editorial and keying work on volume 8 of the Catalogue of Manuscripts Acquired since 1925 has made substantial progress this year ; the catalogue description is finished and the disc has been sent to HMSO , while work on the index is at an advanced stage . |
| 58 | The Cathedral Precinct project has made substantial progress , providing Scotland 's finest medieval building with a splendid new setting — which includes prize-winning housing and the new St. Mungo Museum of Religion . |
| 59 | The business has made substantial progress in terms of integrating production facilities , warehousing and administration . |
| 60 | Over and above such day-to-day management , the Church of England has made substantial efforts in recent years to rationalise its portfolio of buildings . |