Example sentences of "[vb past] to make any [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |
| 2 | The only wooden stairs that never seemed to make any noise were those inch-thick slabs in modern public buildings ; house stairs always took pleasure in announcing to everybody what you were doing . |
| 3 | It was a stupid idea but nothing she said seemed to make any difference . |
| 4 | Accordingly , the Court declined to make any order on the originating summons and the Revenue 's application to strike out the summons would be dismissed . |
| 5 | Reporting a 36% drop in first quarter profits ( see opposite ) yesterday , Philips Electronics NV declined to make any forecast of full-year results . |
| 6 | Mr Nind this week declined to make any comment . |
| 7 | This time the press and the media were there and I declined to make any comment on the negotiations . |
| 8 | In considering these results the NAC decided to allow resolutions on disaffiliation to be considered at the Easter Conference , but declined to make any recommendation on the issue by seven votes to five . |
| 9 | A record guaranteed to make any soulboy puke , it 's a dance compilation as nutters ' paradise : anyone not technological had better turn away now . |
| 10 | Women were easily captivated by Charles , when he bothered to make any effort to captivate : they humbly smiled when he turned his head to pay them attention . |
| 11 | This would show how well the catapult worked and if they had to make any adjustments in their aim . |
| 12 | The 10th preparatory meeting for the holding of joint legislative talks failed to make any progress on Jan. 24 . |
| 13 | A further meeting on Jan. 24 , 1990 , failed to make any progress . |
| 14 | Foreign Ministers ' discussions later in the year failed to make any breakthrough . |
| 15 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 16 | Two further rounds of talks during February between the six republics under the auspices of the federal Presidency failed to make any headway towards achieving agreement on Yugoslavia 's future constitutional structure . |
| 17 | Her mouth was opening and closing , spewing words at him that failed to make any contact in his mind . |
| 18 | The Committee proposed to raise the maximum penalty for this offence to five years , but limited its recommendation to cases where D actively deceives V and failed to make any provision for cases where D takes advantage of a known mistake . |
| 19 | The justices failed to make any determination or finding upon that issue . |
| 20 | The justices failed to make any determination or finding upon this issue . |
| 21 | But there was a setback on Saturday when the French National League 's ( FNL ) disciplinary committee failed to make any ruling at a nine-hour meeting in Paris because they said they did not have enough evidence . |
| 22 | The justices either failed to make any determination in accordance with section 25(3) or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) he was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ( part of the criteria under section 25(1) ( a ) ( i ) of the Act ; ( ii ) if he absconded , he would be likely to suffer significant harm ; ( b ) alternatively , any such findings as were made were not supported by the evidence before the justices . |
| 23 | The justices either failed to make any determination or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 24 | His predecessors had farmed these revenues for less than £50 a year , and in some years failed to make any payment at all . |
| 25 | ‘ The justices however failed to make any determination , or failed to make any finding or state any reasons for finding as to whether ( i ) there was any genuine alternative to the making of a secure accommodation order ; ( ii ) all other alternatives had been comprehensively considered and rejected . |
| 26 | ‘ There 's still a large installed base of SCO out there ’ , explained ICL 's Peter Stuart , vice president of business development , mid-range systems , although the Open Desktop package failed to make any impact , he said . |
| 27 | ‘ I was in charge of ‘ Fluon ’ for a couple of years and I failed to make any impact whatsoever on that particular problem . |
| 28 | He had centre front stage , his voice projected forward over Therese 's , and he ceased to make any attempt to act out the plotted movements with her . |
| 29 | This point was developed in Traynor v Donovan [ 1978 ] CLY 2612 , where the court refused to make any reduction because the plaintiff 's injuries would have been just as severe , but of a different nature , if she had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 30 | Also they refused to make any press statement on the study , and did not print sufficient copies of the report for adequate distribution on the pretext of financial difficulties , yet promptly hired a panel of consultants and academics to conduct a study of the Alliance 's study . |