Example sentences of "[to-vb] made [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sorry not to have made better use of Fontana here , ’ she answered . |
| 2 | Students are reminded that their eventual employers will expect them to have made good use of their time at university . |
| 3 | While many groups evolved successful responses to change , some would appear to have made poor survival choices and in consequence died out . |
| 4 | However , this failure appears to have made little difference to the fortunes of the Labour Party . |
| 5 | The recent introduction of comprehensive schools appears to have made little difference to the kind of schooling that children from different socio-economic backgrounds receive . |
| 6 | The authorities appear to have made little effort to identify the perpetrators of any of these attacks . |
| 7 | Edward III , however , seems to have made little effort to safeguard these rights . |
| 8 | Thus the British government acquired a powder-mill of its own in 1759 , though it seems to have made little use of it , and another in 1787 . |
| 9 | Although its standard Informix SE relational database engine has been available on DOS since 1984 , Informix Corp appears to have made little impact on the lower end of the market , concentrating instead on its core Unix business . |
| 10 | Delegates indicated that the next full CODESA meeting would be held in April ( rather than in March as originally intended ) , when they expected the working groups to have made substantive progress . |
| 11 | You 'd , you 'd expect me erm er with my finger on that pulse to have made that point to the directors , may be help me make it several times during our sort of discussions about er both this year 's budget and next year 's projections . |
| 12 | We do n't seem to have made much progress on this front so I have drawn up a set of forms myself , one for books , one for videos and one for software . |
| 13 | Since clerics had been essentially servants of the Crown rather than of the Church , the change may not be thought to have made much difference . |
| 14 | Two-thirds , however , claim also to have made much use of information routinely available and to have collected information especially for the purpose of the review . |
| 15 | As to the political secrets that the KGB has gathered by the basketful over the last 40 years , few seem to have made much impact on the monolithic structure of Russia 's political machine . |
| 16 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 17 | This proposal aroused very considerable opposition from many of the institutions concerned and NAB itself made a reasoned case for some amendment , which appears to have made some impact . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm simply pointing out that there were better ways to have made this trip today . ’ |
| 19 | Here a combination of favourable ecological and economic conditions , at a particular historical moment , appears to have made this achievement possible . |
| 20 | ‘ We are very fortunate to have made this bridge ’ . |
| 21 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 22 | More than half claim to have made considerable use of the LEA booklet , Starting Points in Self-Evaluation . |
| 23 | The report does make it clear that perhaps sake the weak case at the moment foresee Bungay bypass , but the matter is not concluded yet , we are continuing to work on it and its justification hopefully as recommendation make there , but we do seem to have made little affect of this particular press release , I can only offer my apologies Chairman . |
| 24 | A child in the vitamin A group was significantly less likely than a placebo-treated child to have made several clinic visits ( p=0.019 ) ; for example children in the vitamin A group were 27% ( 95% CI 4–45% ) less likely to have attended the clinic 3 or more times during a 4-month dosing interval . |
| 25 | The aim is to have made sufficient progress with these aspects for work on the 1994/5 Budget to start using the new basis of organisation at the end of this calendar year . |
| 26 | However , bearing these caveats in mind , it is still reasonable to expect children to have made demonstrable progress along the developmental path when they reach key stages in the education system . |