Example sentences of "made [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whatever , once the battles were over and the cacique 's tribe had won , the man made Balboa a gift — a quantity of gold ornaments so gaudy and so valuable that squabbling broke out among the Spaniards as to who should have which piece , how much the minor colonial leaders should get , how much Balboa himself should receive . |
| 2 | — Burnopfield Victory Club homing pigeon society has made £1,800 for three local charities from two squeaker sales . |
| 3 | We hoped to have made £250 for the Craig Evans Memorial Fund for the young deaf of Worcester . |
| 4 | STAP is based on an open systems procurement policy and Siemens Nixdorf has already made £25m from the deal . |
| 5 | The key year for the explosion in prices was 1990 when Christie 's New York offered three important pieces including the ‘ Elephant ’ mystery clock which had previously made $185,000 in Geneva in 1985 , now realising $680,000 . |
| 6 | Highlighting the client/server benefits of CICS/6000 would have made Data Logic feel better about Blue 's intentions , but then the event at Unix Expo a couple of weeks ago ( UX No 404 ) , was owned by IBM 's Personal Systems Division . |
| 7 | A feted and fashionable artist in his own lifetime , the pictures of Anders Zorn rose to extraordinary prominence in the Scandinavian art boom of the late 1980s : in August 1989 ‘ Naked under the Trees ’ sold for £1,424,554 , having made £20,000 in 1976 . |
| 8 | Hewlett-Packard Co accompanied news that it had made $261m net profit for its fiscal first quarter ( a decline of 21% before a big accounting charge last time ) with news that it cut 1,700 jobs worldwide during the period . |
| 9 | The report follows hot on the heels of the move by financier George Soros , the man who is said to have made £1 billion speculating on the collapse of sterling on Black Wednesday , who last month tied up a £500m investment with property giant British Land . |
| 10 | Jackie Collins and Barbara Cartland writing about it ; Joan Collins exuding it ; and Samantha Fox , , who 's made £5.5 million for unashamedly encouraging others to do it . |
| 11 | So , for example , if a retailer buys 20 pairs of jeans from a wholesaler at a cost of £10 a pair ( after discount , see p 114 ) and then charges the customer £15 a pair , he will have made £5 profit on each pair of jeans he sells . |
| 12 | The Empire has many well made cannon and the skills required to operate them . |
| 13 | Our Euro Disney selection roared to nearly £17 at one stage and you could have made £3 a share profit then . |
| 14 | She 'd only made 60p that day . |
| 15 | On 7 December Sotheby 's made £150,000 ( $240,000 ) for an extremely rare sixteenth-century secular French manuscript of the Lives of the Twelve Caesars with illuminations attributed to Jean Bourdichon . |
| 16 | Another point is also made explicitly. : his difficulty is assessing Cézanne 's work at the end of the century . |
| 17 | She has made £50,000 from just saying nothing . |
| 18 | The tax incentives behind housing , the fact that house price increases have made people feel that property is a ‘ sure bet ’ and the lack of a rented sector , however , have combined to ensure that property has out-performed many other sorts of investment . |
| 19 | Reading right-wing papers also made people more inclined to believe the Conservative Party had convincing policies and was likely to keep its promises , that Kinnock was neither decisive , nor trustworthy , nor a good leader of a team , and especially that he could not be relied upon to stand up for British interests against the USSR . |
| 20 | What might be more dangerous is that forty years of so-called socialism have made people accustomed to a kind of egalitarianism , so that they will not readily tolerate great differences in income or lifestyle . |
| 21 | Added to this , firms in more traditional industries such as mechanical engineering or construction have made people redundant . |
| 22 | Corruption was a serious problem and the success of the Chinese communists had made people feel jittery . |
| 23 | After a more detailed and refined analysis of their results , Brown and Levin concluded as follows : ‘ The evidence clearly suggests , therefore , that the aggregate effect of tax on overtime is small ; it may perhaps add about 1% to the total hours worked , since , on balance , tax has made people work more rather than less overtime . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The workshop certainly made people feel more part of a team and demonstrated the power of the networking approach . ’ |
| 25 | The recent dearth of deals has made people realise that there is a vast portfolio out there worth , even after the recession , billions upon billions of pounds . |
| 26 | Holomisa told him that " winds of change " in South Africa had made people in Transkei doubt " the wisdom of clinging to independence " and that its future was " inseparably bound up with that of South Africa " ; he had promised to hold a referendum on this issue . |
| 27 | The chilling pictures of tiny James Bulger being led away to a brutal death have touched millions , not just because of the tragedy that befell a little boy but because they have made people realise how much their own lives have become defiled by fear of crime . |
| 28 | Oh aye some of these f films are ma made people who |
| 29 | Route 66 in Darlington has made £150 for multiple sclerosis research with a raffle drawn at a special soul promotions night . |
| 30 | His mother-in-law ran the shop , such as it was , for she only sold soft drinks , firewood and her speciality — home made whiting balls . |