Example sentences of "[vb -s] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Leeds City Council has made great provisions for handicapped people in all its buildings and public places , and at Roundhay Park there are scented gardens for the blind . |
| 32 | However , Sir Lewis has made great efforts to dispel an admitted ‘ deep scepticism ’ at his appointment among the group 's staff of more than 7,000 , and there is growing confidence among them in what he is doing . |
| 33 | Although Cypress has made great efforts to get the HyperSparc to the launch platform so quickly ( when compared to Viking , see front page ) — the design process spanned just 18 months — Cypress has one major problem : it has no customers signed-up for the thing yet . |
| 34 | The engineer in charge reports that the firm has made great efforts recently to get some new equipment , but there has been a delay in delivery . |
| 35 | At the same time the government has made great efforts to centralise the control of information . |
| 36 | It is consulted regularly by the Conference of Bishops , and in recent years has made great strides in making the women 's voice heard , and enabling women to play their part in the collaboration at all levels in the Church . |
| 37 | The Soviet Union has made great strides since the advent of socialism in 1917 and China has achieved a remarkable increase in prosperity in the years since the communists took over . |
| 38 | There is no doubt that the Brooklands Museum has made great strides in preserving part of Britain 's motoring and aviation heritage and to celebrate 85 years of Brooklands an ambitious programme of aviation and motoring events are planned for 1992 . |
| 39 | Medical science has made great strides in tackling infertility . |
| 40 | Karate has made great strides in the fields of sport and entertainment in recent years , so that there are now semi- and full-contact karate sports as well as kickboxing . |
| 41 | ‘ Since 1989 , the industry has made great strides in getting costs down and output up , and maintaining high standards of safety and environmental protection , ’ he said . |
| 42 | This year the new editorial team has made great strides to develop the editorial content within a limited budget . |
| 43 | Plastic surgery has made great strides since the pioneering techniques of the Guinea Pig Club during World War II . |
| 44 | The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years in cleaning up the town and making it the kind of place which is able to compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 45 | ‘ The town has made great strides forward working with the community and business over the past few years , and making it the kind of place which is able and compete and win a national environmental accolade . ’ |
| 46 | Kinnock has made great changes and one admires the way he has manipulated the Labour Party towards reality . |
| 47 | In an age where liberty has made great advances in the world , there is still conflict , instability and want , causing great misery and inhibiting the peace and co-operation which we want to help to build . |
| 48 | Indeed Butzer is a geographer who has made great contributions in defining a field of Pleistocene Geography which was the term used as a subtitle for his book on Environment and Archaeology first published in 1964 . |
| 49 | Clever Folly has made great improvement this season , winning three of his five races and he is only 1lb out of the handicap . |
| 50 | The recession has made small practices particularly vulnerable , as they lose fee income through clients ' going out of business ; nor do they get paid for work in progress , says Ernst & Young insolvency practitioner Alan Lovett . |
| 51 | Britain has made similar appeals to the court in the past but lost them . |
| 52 | The buyer of the contract has made 100 profit which he receives from the seller of the contract . |
| 53 | She has reintroduced a Dutch Open , and has made impressive strides in terms of organising the first European-based Solheim Cup , the women 's equivalent of the Ryder Cup . |
| 54 | But although this discovery has made accurate diagnosis much easier , the way in which the expansion occurs remains to be understood . |
| 55 | He has been helped by Labour 's manifesto commitment to electrify the line to London , and has made much emphasis of his local record . |
| 56 | One day after a very difficult time with him , I exploded and said to him : ‘ I ca n't say that the Christian faith has made much difference to your life ! ’ |
| 57 | A new head teacher has made much difference in the last two years and the school is beginning to pick up in many ways . |
| 58 | British research has made much use of the General Health Questionnaire ( GQH ) , which despite its name actually seems to index minor psychiatric morbidity ( ill-health ) . |
| 59 | To help in discovering the organisation and the capabilities of our faculty for perceiving speech , we need to be able to produce very small and finely-controlled differences in speech sounds , and experimental phonetics has made much use of speech produced by machines called speech synthesisers . |
| 60 | The organiser of The Other Story , Rasheed Araeen , has made much study of the art criticism of the early Seventies and the post-modernist theories of the Eighties , and his work looks as though it has no knowledge of the world not gleaned from art magazines . |