Example sentences of "[verb] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Appeared in 22 Carry Ons , including Carry On With The Same Old Camp Jokes That Helped Make Gay People A Hated Minority . |
| 2 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 3 | Similarly the law has made possible regulations to encourage the mobility of Greek university students within Europe . |
| 4 | Livermore said : ‘ He 's a clever footballer who has made tremendous strides , bearing in mind he 's only 18 . |
| 5 | But in the last 15 months , the Association has made tremendous progress . ’ |
| 6 | For some years now modern farming has made tremendous demands on the finite sources of energy which exist on earth . |
| 7 | George Michael 's counsel told the court that Sony has made worldwide profits of over fifty two million pounds from the singer 's recordings , whereas Mr Michael has made profits of over seven million pounds . |
| 8 | In the New Left Review , Benedict Anderson has made sharp criticisms of the work of the journalist and poet James Fenton which compare it with that of Kapuscinski and Naipaul . |
| 9 | The increased power of the deterrent , that is , the nuclear weapon and the means of its delivery , has made global war more frightening and less likely . |
| 10 | The first is the launch by Corin of a revolutionary universal hip that enables surgeons to tailor hip replacements to the patient , whilst the second is the advance by AEA of a technique for measuring bone density that has made early detection of bone wastage possible for the first time . |
| 11 | A Downing Street statement in the Prime Minister 's name said : ‘ King Fahd of Saudi Arabia has told me that his government has made available £1.5 billion for the Al Yamamah government-to-government defence programme . |
| 12 | He is hardly someone who has made friendly remarks about the coal industry of late . |
| 13 | Coal has gained the electricity generating markets but lost its domestic markets while gas has made vast gains in domestic and industrial heating markets . |
| 14 | We are now producing our traditional ‘ Palatine Bitter ’ in large cans and 2-litre PET bottles suitable for the take-home trade , and our sales force has made encouraging progress in placing these on off-licence and supermarket shelves . |
| 15 | The technical trick that has made cheap laser-printers possible has also brought type design and typesetting to a far wider market . |
| 16 | For years whenever I 've got out of bed in the middle of the night — about whatever pursuit you get out of bed in the night for — my right ankle has made cracking noises , like kindling being snapped . |
| 17 | There is a long tradition of by-employment , much of it non-agricultural in nature , in Japanese farming families , and the extension of this practice since 1945 — accentuated by the sharp decline of the previously all-important silkworm cultivation — has made part-time farming a dominant feature of the rural sector . |
| 18 | We want them to be bailed.A consular official has made regular visits to the jail . |
| 19 | Allegations of stamping apart , the recent trend towards the use of longer studs has made nasty gashes through ‘ sprigging ’ far more commonplace . |
| 20 | An indication that the acceptability of the concept of headhunting has made great progress among employers in Britain is the fact that many of the respondents attested to search consultants ' knowledge of the executive market place , gained over a number of years , and their expertise in certain specialised sectors . |
| 21 | 1971 ) has made great progress as a geologist who used the wing cases of fossil beetles ( Coleoptera ) to indicate climatic characteristics of palaeoenvironments because coleoptera are very sensitive to changes in wetness and dryness . |
| 22 | Leeds City Council has made great provisions for handicapped people in all its buildings and public places , and at Roundhay Park there are scented gardens for the blind . |
| 23 | However , Sir Lewis has made great efforts to dispel an admitted ‘ deep scepticism ’ at his appointment among the group 's staff of more than 7,000 , and there is growing confidence among them in what he is doing . |
| 24 | Although Cypress has made great efforts to get the HyperSparc to the launch platform so quickly ( when compared to Viking , see front page ) — the design process spanned just 18 months — Cypress has one major problem : it has no customers signed-up for the thing yet . |
| 25 | The engineer in charge reports that the firm has made great efforts recently to get some new equipment , but there has been a delay in delivery . |
| 26 | At the same time the government has made great efforts to centralise the control of information . |
| 27 | It is consulted regularly by the Conference of Bishops , and in recent years has made great strides in making the women 's voice heard , and enabling women to play their part in the collaboration at all levels in the Church . |
| 28 | The Soviet Union has made great strides since the advent of socialism in 1917 and China has achieved a remarkable increase in prosperity in the years since the communists took over . |
| 29 | There is no doubt that the Brooklands Museum has made great strides in preserving part of Britain 's motoring and aviation heritage and to celebrate 85 years of Brooklands an ambitious programme of aviation and motoring events are planned for 1992 . |
| 30 | Medical science has made great strides in tackling infertility . |