Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] made a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The right hon. Member for Henley made a powerful point when he said that all we were doing was trying to introduce an envy tax . |
| 2 | Yesterday , the Secretary of State for Scotland made a statement condemning local councils for overspending . |
| 3 | A pair of Messerschmitts made a strafing attack on St. Paul 's Bay where a Sunderland flyingboat and the Loire 130 were slightly damaged at their moorings . |
| 4 | On June 6 President Traore of Mali made a brief visit to Nouakchott and held talks with Taya on issues relating to the dispute with Senegal . |
| 5 | The family firm of Swannson-on-Wheels made a contract with Computex Ltd by exchange of correspondence , The following extract taken from a letter dated 30 July 1985 on Computex Ltd headed notepaper gives the essential terms of the haulage contract : |
| 6 | The building , which was designed to accommodate 200 paupers , cost £5,000 in all , for which the Duke of Bedford made a loan of £2,000 and Samuel Whitbread one of £800 . |
| 7 | Outgoing governor Lord ( formerly Sir David ) Wilson of Tillyorn made a six-day farewell visit to China on June 7-12 . |
| 8 | When the Archbishop of Canterbury made a strong statement last autumn on this subject , voicing his concern for our reckless disregard for nature , The Times ran an editorial entitled ‘ The Greening of the Archbishop ’ . |
| 9 | The outlawed Archbishop of Canterbury made a successful appeal to the Pope , who at once denounced all those who had taken it upon themselves , without papal advice or authority , to outlaw an archbishop . |
| 10 | Between 1210 and 1215 John of Wales made a new compilation out of Gilbert and Alan 's work ( which came , therefore , to be called the Compilatio Secunda , though in fact it followed the Compilatio Tertia ) and in 1216 came the last private collection of the reign , the Compilatio Quarta of John the Teuton . |
| 11 | The cotton weavers of Lancashire made a similar point in 1799 when claiming that piece rates had been more than halved since 1792 . |
| 12 | My hon. Friend the Member for Leyton made a passionate case for getting rid of the 20 per cent . |
| 13 | Two Coldstream guardsmen who are accused of robbery while on the run from their unit in Germany made a second appearance before magistrates in Whitby . |
| 14 | That 's one of the very important advantages of this election result , and personally I think the Social Democrats in Germany made a great mistake by being equivocal on this issue . |
| 15 | Still , those last three tries against Waikato in Hamilton made a huge difference to the team and its supporters in Canada . |
| 16 | POLITICAL leaders in Bosnia-Hzercegovina made a desperate appeal for peace last night as the flames of civil war engulfed the central Yugoslav republic . |
| 17 | There was a time , early in their days at Cambridge , when a brilliant and handsome research student from Yale made a determined pitch for Robyn , and she had been rather dazzled and excited by the experience ( he wooed her with a heady mixture of the latest post Freudian theoretical jargon and devastatingly frank sexual propositions , so she was never quite sure whether it was Lacan 's symbolic phallus he was referring to or his own real one ) . |
| 18 | Definitions were always crucial in this debate , and the Church of England Board for Social Responsibility in its submission to Williams made a useful contribution to clarifying the distinctions between terms like eroticism , pornography , and obscenity : |
| 19 | Horsham soon found themselves a goal behind as Abingdon made a tremendous start ; Town won a corner on the left wing in the second minute and Keith Appleton killed the ball into the area . |
| 20 | The room was elegant and , although comfortably and expensively furnished , was free from clutter and without any of the personal touches that for Rachel made a house a home . |
| 21 | My hon. Friend the Member for Taunton made a thoroughly thoughtful speech and provided an honest analysis of his views . |