Example sentences of "[noun sg] make a [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | DISNEY shares went into freefall yesterday as its chairman made a £74 million killing on the stock market . |
| 2 | With the head on its side make a series of cuts straight in with the corner chisel along the curve of the cheek , and cut away the waste on the neck side of the line . |
| 3 | Accounts recently published show the club made a £3m loss in the last financial year . |
| 4 | Use a small split cane the width of the seed tray to make a series of depressions in the levelled compost . |
| 5 | The bird is much the liner of the two , of course — I 'm only taking the dragon to make a pair with the bird . |
| 6 | The group made a £597m charge to cover possible bad debts . |
| 7 | There are slight stylistic differences in the execution of the relief work , and it may be that one cup is an exotic , a Minoan import , and the other was made by a Mycenean craftsman to make a pair ; on balance , I think it more likely that both are Minoan ( Figure 31 ) . |
| 8 | Another approach is typified by BTR , an acquisitive British conglomerate which this month made a $1.6 billion bid for Norton , an American abrasives group . |
| 9 | But why go to all that trouble to make a 2D character appear solid when you could generate it on a computer in 3D in the first place ? |
| 10 | From I87 1 the Japanese government made a series of moves aimed at incorporating the islands into the national administrative framework , but these unilateral steps were strongly contested by the Chinese , who also claimed suzerainty . |
| 11 | Bosses Richard Bryan , Colin Stone and Brian Nathan could n't afford to give their 141 workers a rise after their tool hire firm made a £291,000 pre-tax loss . |
| 12 | The old man made a series of ticks down the right-hand side of the buff form before telling Charlie to report back to the chap with the three white stripes . |
| 13 | The instructor may have been wondering if the height was going to be sufficient for a normal approach even though the student had already cut out the base leg to make a 180° turn on to finals . |
| 14 | The report made a series of recommendations on increasing CID strength , which has fallen sharply from 10 per cent of the force in 1973 to 7.4 per cent , despite an overall large increase in numbers and a recommendation by Her Majesty 's Inspectorate that provincial CIDs should make up 12.4 per cent of police . |
| 15 | A heading allowance of 4cm ( 1 ½in ) should be added to your finished length to make a 2.5cm ( 1in ) frill . |
| 16 | The resulting image is then either transferred to an OHP foil by photocopying or photographed using a rostrum camera to make a 35mm slide . |
| 17 | The company made a £670 million profit last year — six per cent up on the previous year . |
| 18 | Network Computing Devices Inc has agreed in principle to make a $4m investment in NetManage Inc , a two-year-old Cupertino , California-based vendor of networking protocol software for the Microsoft Windows environment , giving it a 10% ownership position . |
| 19 | However , the saving is limited as the Revenue only normally allow the service company to make a 10% profit . |
| 20 | ‘ You do n't go out of your way to make a series , ’ said Peter Rogers , who produced the entire batch . |
| 21 | She had dyed black hair that looked like cotton wool dipped in liquid boot polish , her face was thin and feral-looking , and through the flimsy see-through negligee George could see that under her arms was enough hair to make a pair of identical wigs . |
| 22 | He had in prospect a time of truce , while Janet , an expert manager , in a trouser suit well adapted to the task , gave him very real help with the laying-up , but at the same time made a series of unacceptable comparisons between the caravan and Rochester . |
| 23 | The global trend , however , improved steadily throughout last year , the UK market making a £7 million profit in the fourth quarter for the second quarter in a row . |
| 24 | In 1785 alone , not only did he survey and engrave the series of charts mentioned above , but he also found time to make a series of estate plans for Patrick Kerr of Abbotrule ( which Kerr failed to pay for ) , to survey a line for a canal from the Forth to the Clyde for Robert Whitworth , and to engrave several plans for the court of session in Edinburgh . |
| 25 | So here the use of quasi-official language to make a series of provocatively racist statements serves to undermine the credibility of the authorized version of ‘ community relations ’ by contrasting its unrealistic viewpoint with the putative realities of ‘ the job ’ . |
| 26 | It invariably turns out that an operator makes a series of decisions partly on the basis of what is currently displayed ( on-line information ) and partly on the basis of other material obtained from his knowledge of the system performance , his briefing and his operating instructions ( off-line information ) . |
| 27 | Nylon makes a 100% recovery to its original length but does so rather slowly . |