Example sentences of "[verb] made [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 2 | At the time of writing BP has failed to find oil and Exxon has made one discovery but this does not mean that oil will not be found . |
| 3 | The Spotted Orange has made one piece of bogwood its home , but does not appear to make any aggressive moves against any of the other fish . |
| 4 | He was like a man who has made one step forward into unknown territory and stands looking for a path . |
| 5 | As Yarrow is the flagship in my constituency and the biggest private employer in the whole of Glasgow , I hope that the Secretary of State will accept my sense of relief and — yes — gratitude that the Ministry has made that decision today . |
| 6 | So far , the only person who has made that suggestion is the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 7 | But in the last 15 months , the Association has made tremendous progress . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In addition , Young has made six sand drawings on mylar sheets . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Clever Folly has made great improvement this season , winning three of his five races and he is only 1lb out of the handicap . |
| 16 | The buyer of the contract has made 100 profit which he receives from the seller of the contract . |
| 17 | But although this discovery has made accurate diagnosis much easier , the way in which the expansion occurs remains to be understood . |
| 18 | He has been helped by Labour 's manifesto commitment to electrify the line to London , and has made much emphasis of his local record . |
| 19 | 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 ! ’ |
| 20 | A new head teacher has made much difference in the last two years and the school is beginning to pick up in many ways . |
| 21 | 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 ) . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Thirty five today , there would be no better birthday present than the sort of start he has made each time he won here — a 66 in 1980 and a 68 in 1983 . |
| 25 | The international forum established after the Rhodes Summit in December 1988 has made little headway on the issue of border controls , and the police are critical of the British government 's delay in making its own position clear . |
| 26 | Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway . |
| 27 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
| 28 | First , the Act has made little progress in terms of reversing the trend in the United States towards earlier retirement . |
| 29 | Nevertheless , there are areas where France 's research policy has made little progress . |
| 30 | The Chancellor has preserved his flexibility to adjust duties between different categories of drinks , but has made little use of that flexibility in the face of overwhelming evidence that market conditions have changed fundamentally in favour of wines . |