Example sentences of "[verb] make much [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been helped by Labour 's manifesto commitment to electrify the line to London , and has made much emphasis of his local record . |
| 2 | One day after a very difficult time with him , I exploded and said to him : ‘ I ca n't say that the Christian faith has made much difference to your life ! ’ |
| 3 | A new head teacher has made much difference in the last two years and the school is beginning to pick up in many ways . |
| 4 | British research has made much use of the General Health Questionnaire ( GQH ) , which despite its name actually seems to index minor psychiatric morbidity ( ill-health ) . |
| 5 | To help in discovering the organisation and the capabilities of our faculty for perceiving speech , we need to be able to produce very small and finely-controlled differences in speech sounds , and experimental phonetics has made much use of speech produced by machines called speech synthesisers . |
| 6 | The organiser of The Other Story , Rasheed Araeen , has made much study of the art criticism of the early Seventies and the post-modernist theories of the Eighties , and his work looks as though it has no knowledge of the world not gleaned from art magazines . |
| 7 | If we feel that someone has a high opinion of us we tend to want to live up to it , but few of us bother to make much effort with anyone we know who gives us a low rating , and this is very much the case between mothers-in-law and sons-in-law . |
| 8 | Thus , whatever success individual parents may have achieved via the 1980 Act 's appeal system , it seemed , by 1986 , that ‘ rights of school choice do not appear to make much difference to the outcomes of school admissions or to the LEAs ' management of school rolls ’ . |
| 9 | One great comber filled the canoe before she shook free from the cascading crests ; now they could not expect to make much headway and had to fight even harder to avoid broaching-to . |
| 10 | How can Christ be a perfect penitent if he is really sinless ? putting it in ordinary terms : if you are completely innocent of a crime , no one is going to make much sense of it if you say : ‘ I am not guilty of this offence , but I confess on behalf of others and wish to represent their guilt . ’ |
| 11 | I do n't think that 's going to make much difference . ’ |
| 12 | The Judaeo-Christian tradition regards cannibalism as a sin , but other major religions beg to disagree , on the grounds that , if a person is dead already , the consumption of his or her body is not going to make much difference . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't think a few crocuses in Hyde Park are going to make much difference , ’ Estabrook said . |
| 14 | ‘ No , not that it would have made much sense if they had — I 'm not a particular ace when it comes to car engines . ’ |
| 15 | Hence the major cause of unemployment lies outside the government 's responsibility and a Labour government would not have made much difference . |
| 16 | A few extra minutes while he went up for his loser 's medal would n't have made much difference . |
| 17 | But if they get it wrong they have the consolation that , for all the recriminations , it probably wo n't have made much difference to the outcome of the election . |
| 18 | Without Bully , her Red Riding Hood character would not have made much impression , but with the black-faced wolf-like dog following her she won loud applause . |
| 19 | We do n't seem to have made much progress on this front so I have drawn up a set of forms myself , one for books , one for videos and one for software . |
| 20 | Since clerics had been essentially servants of the Crown rather than of the Church , the change may not be thought to have made much difference . |
| 21 | Two-thirds , however , claim also to have made much use of information routinely available and to have collected information especially for the purpose of the review . |
| 22 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
| 23 | Appropriately , an extract of Italian horse racing commentary follows before the Satanic finale of ‘ Noh Jam ’ which does n't seem to make much sense even if you rotate your turntable backwards . |
| 24 | Appropriately , an extract of Italian horse racing commentary follows before the Satanic finale of ‘ Noh Jam ’ which does n't seem to make much sense even if you rotate your turntable backwards . |
| 25 | But this does not seem to make much difference to the behaviour . ) |
| 26 | According to it did not seem to make much difference to tax on income differentials , rich peasants were still about two and a half times better off than poor peasants . |
| 27 | But then , as she was fast coming to realise , that was par for the course really , since nothing appeared to make much sense where Dane Jacobsen was concerned . |
| 28 | Not that he had made much progress on anything else . |
| 29 | This summer was the first anyone had made much use of the pool . |
| 30 | The East German government was suspicious of Western intentions and two meetings between Brandt and the East German premier , Willi Stolph , in 1970 — though dramatic events in themselves — failed to make much progress . |