Example sentences of "[noun sg] make some [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The position would have been very different in the case of a payment made some years before which was sought to be recovered because a court in another case had ruled that the regulation under which the demand had been made had all along been ultra vires . |
| 2 | So the Guardian made some inquiries . |
| 3 | During the screening process , however , the Education Ministry made some changes which were criticized by liberals . |
| 4 | The eighteen months out of Trade Rule made some sense when this great nation of ours had something resembling full-time employment . |
| 5 | Fabia opened her mouth to make some kind of sophisticated reply , but her heart was racing so much — nobody had even paid her such an extravagant compliment before , and yet made it sound true and sincere , and not extravagant at all — that she could think of nothing to say . |
| 6 | The regional policies that have been developed , refined and improved in Britain in the past quarter of a century owe a great deal to the foresight of then Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in deciding to send Lord Hailsham , as he is now , to the north-east to make some progress . |
| 7 | The Joint Commission reconvened in a final attempt to make some progress . |
| 8 | As well as Sunday 's League match , there is an Italian Cup tie the following Wednesday for Gazza to prove he 's in a good enough condition to make some contribution against Norway . |
| 9 | The proposal made some changes to the first paragraph of Security Council Resolution 598 , dealing with a ceasefire and the withdrawal of troops , in line with Iraqi demands . |
| 10 | Hall seems to endorse a proposal made some years ago by that , on the basis of this simple genetic control , ‘ Torsion , and with it the class Gastropoda , arose through a single gene mutation . ’ |
| 11 | Again , an extra quango would n't be needed and er he 's probably aware of that there is a develo er there is a group of er of er various regulators who erm who operate under the acronym finn F I double N N and which is referred to er in the fact that I think the chancellor made some announcement about it . |
| 12 | Plaster dust floated down from the ceiling making some people choke and one little girl shriek that it had got into her eyes . |
| 13 | Some reliable sources report that the President 's wife , Mrs Jihan , rushed to the telephone to make some telephone calls to the United States . |
| 14 | If BL , with its strong union presence , is prepared to negotiate changes in the work organisation of maintenance when microelectronics-controlled machinery is first installed , and management makes some headway in breaking down the traditional craft structure , then presumably substantial changes are on their way in other companies . |
| 15 | If you 're never going to read those twenty-year-old management books collecting dust on your office shelf make some profit ( it 's always best to start in a small way ) by selling them to a secondhand bookshop . |
| 16 | The added documentation which bureaux might need to comply with such a requirement in this country could be costly , and the requirement seems to carry little practical value : if a credit granter suddenly gets information relating to an inquiry made some months earlier , which is almost certainly no longer active , it wo n't do the consumer any good . |
| 17 | Not an easy tongue to master at such short notice , but she had always felt it was a basic courtesy for a tourist to make some attempt , however feeble , to communicate in the tongue of the host country . |
| 18 | I used the privacy to make some calls on the house phone without logging them in the red exercise book Mr Goodson had drawing-pinned to the wall . |
| 19 | He and Sybil lived carefully , borrowed cars to save renting them , accepted hospitality , incurred and endured some cutting remarks of the wealthy but kept steadfast to their aim to make some money and run back to London to act and feed the security bank . |
| 20 | It is for British Coal to decide what manpower it requires However the Government need to make some estimate of the number of redundancies in order to seek the necessary estimate provision for restructuring grant . ’ |
| 21 | If this picture makes some sense to you , then you need not read the rest of this paragraph . |
| 22 | His sanctimoniousness and hypocrisy make some people around here regard him with great distaste . |
| 23 | They asked for particulars ; pink tie made some notes . |
| 24 | For quick revision , the skeleton of the subject must be visible at a glance , and it is worth while making some effort to produce this effect , if only for ease of revision ; indeed , revision becomes almost a pleasure if the notes are eminently readable and carry their message with punch . |
| 25 | The name makes some sense as an enduring survival of bronze age Cretan influence , but we must not lose sight of the fact that it was Evans who gave the Minoan civilization its name and not the Minoans : they almost certainly called themselves something completely different . |
| 26 | Like with the previous meeting to discuss the self-appraisal , the report was considered page by page , but at the end the chairperson asked the head to make some recommendations . |
| 27 | There is also evidence ( albeit controversial ) that stress makes some cancers progress more rapidly . |
| 28 | There were tigerish glints in her brown eyes ; it was extraordinary , he thought , how anger made some women more beautiful . |
| 29 | Intel was the last to join the RISC bandwagon , Slater notes — repeating a comment made some time ago by Intels ' Dave House , that RISC was ‘ the last hope of the have-nots ’ — now it seems Intel is the have-not of the RISC marketplace . |
| 30 | My choice of industry might seem surprising , in view of my wish to make some sort of contribution to the world 's well-being . |