Example sentences of "[vb -s] make [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All-seeing , all-wise , all-present , self-existent , He has made all things well for ever and ever . |
| 2 | THE LACK of snowfall in most European resorts over the last two winters has made all skiers aware of the advantages of artificial snow-making machinery . |
| 3 | On both sides of the Irish Sea it has made all practitioners keenly aware of the deep oubliettes of the timetable , in short of the incoherence even of the apparently most broad and balanced curriculum . |
| 4 | As Yarrow is the flagship in my constituency and the biggest private employer in the whole of Glasgow , I hope that the Secretary of State will accept my sense of relief and — yes — gratitude that the Ministry has made that decision today . |
| 5 | So far , the only person who has made that suggestion is the Leader of the Opposition . |
| 6 | He has been helped by Labour 's manifesto commitment to electrify the line to London , and has made much emphasis of his local record . |
| 7 | 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 ! ’ |
| 8 | A new head teacher has made much difference in the last two years and the school is beginning to pick up in many ways . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Thirty five today , there would be no better birthday present than the sort of start he has made each time he won here — a 66 in 1980 and a 68 in 1983 . |
| 13 | The international forum established after the Rhodes Summit in December 1988 has made little headway on the issue of border controls , and the police are critical of the British government 's delay in making its own position clear . |
| 14 | Although there has been considerable support for a Teachers ' Council , the proposal has made little headway . |
| 15 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
| 16 | First , the Act has made little progress in terms of reversing the trend in the United States towards earlier retirement . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , there are areas where France 's research policy has made little progress . |
| 18 | The Chancellor has preserved his flexibility to adjust duties between different categories of drinks , but has made little use of that flexibility in the face of overwhelming evidence that market conditions have changed fundamentally in favour of wines . |
| 19 | A final line of analysis insists that the government has made little difference , particularly on unemployment . |
| 20 | Within the industry , the war has made little difference to most people 's expectations : the reduction , they say , is going to happen . |
| 21 | The addition of nutrients has made little difference to the rate of succession at sites in Sheffield . |
| 22 | The recent heavy rain has made little difference because many of our rivers rely on ground water . |
| 23 | There are some twenty-two indigenous Indian languages spoken in these communities , and the government has made little effort to support education in these mother tongues . |
| 24 | Although Mercury has made little impact in local telephone services , it has begun to make an impact on BT 's operations in long-distance and overseas links . |
| 25 | The recent fashion for dubiously coherent theoretical approaches has made little impact , beyond occasional outbursts of rant and cant which no one takes seriously . |
| 26 | Mr Morton , who has made many speeches on the need for an integrated and planned transport policy , would in any case be unlikely to relish the job of breaking up the rail network . |
| 27 | The extensive use of ‘ supergrasses ’ in the eighties has made many people sceptical of informers and verbal statements , but such scepticism was far less widespread in the 1960s , and the impression that Paisley was heavily involved in illegal acts became common . |
| 28 | Likening God to a shepherd has made many people assume that the point of the metaphor was to emphasize the sheep-like quality of people — that they have no mind of their own , that they are there to be told what to do and treated like sheep . |
| 29 | There have been few serious attempts to break away from this restrictive framework ; it is the absence of the application of any theoretical framework that has made such work so sterile , and it is doubtful whether evidence will be found for the social and economic developments during the period by studying art-styles , date and distribution alone , unless specific questions are formulated first . |
| 30 | " " Living Churchyards " is the latest idea to emerge from a new link between the conservation movement and the world 's faith groups , which is one of the most successful alliances that WWF has made this decade , " says Ivan Hattingh , Head of Development at WWF . |