Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] make [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emma Nicholson 's Private Member 's Bill against hackers , which failed to make the grade in the last session of Parliament , required anyone who entered a computer to his or anyone else 's advantage , or to another 's prejudice , to be charged with a serious offence , with a maximum penalty of 10 years . |
| 2 | In late Victorian Britain , the law-makers were gripped by a clean-up fervour , not unlike what is happening today , which sought to make the country safe for women , children and the family . |
| 3 | An alternative view might be that as the court considered whether the GMC had exercised its power in accordance with the Act it was in fact embarking on an exercise which involved making a finding of reasonableness ( or the lack of it ) in a fashion analogous to an application of the restraint of trade doctrine . |
| 4 | The period between the end of the twelfth century and the middle of the thirteenth saw several crucial innovations in weaponry and armour which helped make the medieval knight what he was always intended to be : a superb fighting machine . |
| 5 | A week before the children arrived , it was a tense group of host families which gathered to make the final preparations . |
| 6 | The main themes which appeared to make the case newsworthy were firstly , a gang rape ; secondly , a racial theme , since the newspapers clearly identified the rapists as black and the girls as white in both words and pictures ; thirdly , controversy over the sentencing being ‘ too light ’ ; fourthly , controversy as to whether the girls could be held to have contributed to their own rape by being out at night . |
| 7 | But these signals did not reach AFHQ until the morning of the next day , 15 May , long after Robertson had sent his response to McCreery 's AC/189 which had only asked for " immediate steps " to be taken over the approach of Army Group E , and which had made no specific reference to Croats . |
| 8 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |
| 9 | Britain would be in an open economic zone and subject to even more direct competition from economies which had made a much stronger commitment to skills , research , science and transport . |
| 10 | However , the Daily Mail — which had made a strong point about not naming rape victims , even in civil cases ( see Chapter 7 ) named the woman on successive days with a large photograph of her on the second day : I 'm jetting away from it all . |
| 11 | In Asturias strike action began in late December 1991 in all the mines owned by the state company Hunosa ( the biggest employer in the region , which had made a loss of 65,000 million ptas — US$674 million — in 1991 ) in protest at a restructuring plan which would involve the loss of 6,000 jobs by the end of 1993 at a saving of only 15,000 million ptas . |
| 12 | It was also evident that those departments which had made a strong case for improved resourcing had gained from the appraisal . |
| 13 | No. 65 was used for this run ; it was the one which had made the trials on Anerley Hill before public service commenced . |
| 14 | One useful source of information was 43 Royal Marine Commando which had made the arrests at Ardeene Social Club . |
| 15 | Argyll and Bute district council did post warning notices at Loch Awe advising people to keep children and pets off the shore , but these were recently removed after the hot weather which had made the problem worse was over . |
| 16 | Russia , Germany , Austria-Hungary , England and France were the ‘ great powers ’ ( or their lineal descendants ) which had made the Vienna settlement . |
| 17 | The Commission responded by urging Contracting States which had made the Reservation under Article 23 to withdraw it , or at least adopt the language of the United Kingdom Reservation . |
| 18 | While there were some deeply held opinions , as shown in the controversy over the provisions in the 1967 Act which had made the suspension of certain short sentences mandatory , they provided insufficient grist for the legislative mill . |
| 19 | Ferdinand 's rejection of all compromise , as Wellesley saw , was just as alarming as the ‘ Republican Principles ’ which had made the constitution of 1812 a political edifice which no king could inhabit with dignity . |
| 20 | He also referred to some presumed sexual oddity , which had made the unfortunate Prince lean more heavily on the one woman , out of a number , who seemed able to cope with it . |
| 21 | KATE went to work the next day rather ashamed of the absurdly flattering photo of herself which had made the gossip column of her daily paper . |
| 22 | In later proceedings , " The Independent " and several other newspapers were held to have been in contempt of the court which had made the order against " The Guardian " and were fined , notwithstanding that by this time the Government had lost its original action against " The Guardian . " |
| 23 | Relations with South Africa deteriorated further [ see p. 39178 ] when on Dec. 1 the Angolan authorities announced that they were holding the crew of a South African plane which had made an emergency landing in Luena , Moxico province . |
| 24 | The oldest member of the convoy was a 1901 Thanomile trike which had to make the journey around site on a trailer because its engine had expired the previous day . |
| 25 | We sat through some very boring speeches which attempted to make the thoughts of Mao , Marx and Lenin exciting and accessible to a bunch of dumb women , and then broke for coffee . |
| 26 | But what had made the girl propose to him in this way ? |