Example sentences of "[verb] made a great " in BNC.

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1 The advent of the private car has made a greater percentage of the population mobile , we can reach many different areas today by private car .
2 But moving house has made a great difference for me .
3 Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives .
4 Alice has made a great difference .
5 This work has made a great contribution to our understanding of the subject , although the structural diversity of port wine stains confounds the best attempts at mathematical modelling and there is no substitute for good clinical assessments and comparisons of different laser systems .
6 He has made a great contribution to anchoring the art of architecture to real life , real science and real modernity …
7 He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here .
8 Your children will inherit a world in which Basil 's influence has made a great contribution .
9 She has made a great difference to me , she was wonderful .
10 The sofa bed or studio couch has made a great difference to one-room living .
11 Starting with Camco , the newly appointed Chief Executive er , has been very , very active and has made a great impact already .
12 After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted .
13 Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery .
14 I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work .
15 Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history .
16 It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics .
17 ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things .
18 He would have made a great dramatic actor .
19 Piggy might have been able to save the boys ; as with his sensible , mature attitude resulting from the trauma caused by his parents ' death , he could have made a great impact on the boys .
20 In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) .
21 I know she were , she were brick shit she were , I said to Lyn I said I 'm bloody sure , I could have actually , she , she were nearly eating out of my arm , in them last few weeks , I 'll tell you , ooh the encouragement I got about the driving ooh I ca n't do it Lyn and when I comes in that day the first test I had she 'd made a great big fucking cake
22 ‘ Anne — Miss Miggs , ’ began Christine breathlessly , ‘ we 've made a great discovery !
23 They 've made a great start , but five shots after one round is nothing in this tournament . ’
24 I 've made a great deal of progress , as you can see . ’
25 but I mean other than that , I , I , I 'd like to be dead cautious about that , I , I still think it 's early days , I know we 've made a great success , but it 's early days .
26 and they just say it totally randomly and the last one just the first pers person who says Mornington Crescent is the winner but they 've made a great big sort of fiction as to how why , when it is suitable to say Mornington Crescent
27 Despite the fanfare which greeted the launch of the Air 180 last year , the subsequent arrival of the Air Huarache had made a greater impression on our testers , who have found it to be both innovative and effective .
28 During the sixth century , craftsmen were increasingly operating from workshops , employed by those who had made a greater success in the agricultural way of life and were able to support a greater number of specialists and farmworkers .
29 We concur with the DCSLs who felt that Major award schools had put more thinking into their documentation and that the larger funding had made a greater impact on provision , management and the physical organisation and appearance of the library .
30 He had made a great reputation in Berlin between the wars .
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