Example sentences of "[noun] [pron] made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | In addition to conducting this particular case study I made some visits to another school ( which I have called ‘ Southend ’ ) in the same LEA which had gone through an identical appraisal exercise a year earlier . |
2 | The programs were tried out extensively with my own students , and from their feedback I made several modifications . |
3 | You what s normally happens is that the following year when you make profit you say ah but last year I made er you know I made a loss of ten thousand pound set that off against the profit of ten thousand pound I made this year so that tax pay losses can be carried forward there are other more complex ways of doing it too but that 's the standard sort of way , I think . |
4 | From my hotel at the foot of fifth Avenue I made short forays into the neon between soaking my cuts , counting my abrasions and nursing anxiety to sleep . |
5 | In this he was helped by the clergy who made voluntary contributions to the value of twelve pence in every mark , of the annual value of their benefices . |
6 | Next comes grandson William Gylby , wealthy London lawyer who made great strides , increasing the size of the island to over 1,500 acres by his death in 1744 , and having the dubious distinction of attempting to reduce the troublesome rat population by having them killed , dressed and offered up to his tenants and workmen to eat . |
7 | The mood of the meeting was adversely affected by President Roh Tae Woo 's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union [ see p. 37918 ] , and by a series of confrontations involving journalists in the Northern delegation who made unauthorized visits to several of Seoul 's universities where they met with student radicals . |
8 | It was Freud who made modern people aware of the unconscious influence of the father . |
9 | Our first problem at Llandrindod Wells was to estimate the numbers coming to the lake , so each night during the spring we made hourly circuits of the lake collecting all the toads we encountered . |
10 | In a very real sense , therefore , the employers , whether farmers or landlords — in practice it made little difference — were not part of the rural village community as far as the agricultural worker was concerned . |
11 | Last Saturday he made another debut for Grove Steels in the Vaux Bluebell Over 40s League . |
12 | In the great hall henchmen were laying tables for the banquet and the air was thick with the tangy wholesome odour of cooking from the kitchen which made both men 's mouths water . |
13 | The Muslim community in Bradford , where Yasmin comes from , is very strong , and there had recently been a case which made national news of two Muslim sisters fighting for their right to wear their headscarves to school . |
14 | In 1914 the Board of Education initiated a new Education ( Provision of Meals ) Act which made this provision compulsory for all local authorities , provided an Exchequer subsidy , authorized feeding during school holidays and left the determination of need to the school medical officers who were to assess need purely on grounds of health rather than of parental income . |
15 | For much of Charles ' reign Constantinople was under the control of relatively ineffectual rulers , and had many internal disputes and factions which made imperial interest in Italy difficult to enforce . |
16 | After the Reformation these traditions were regularized in a unique Poor Law which made each parish responsible for its own poor , and obliged it to finance its aid by levying a poor rate on its inhabitants . |
17 | But that should be offset by recovery from the bathroom and heating companies which made little-changed profits of £42.6m last year . |
18 | These are the companies which made heavy investment in the electronic transmitter cells which now cover 90 per cent of the country . |
19 | History teaching had been developing along lines which made more use of reference and local source material , while IS , which involved history , science , geography , and religious education ( RE ) , had been concerned with providing greater primary/secondary continuity in the first-year curriculum , and with developing , through an interdisciplinary base , essential learning skills . |
20 | When you came back down from the mountains you made some recordings that to this very day have a unique atmosphere about them — the Metamorphosen , the Brahms Requiem — but when you went to England to work with Legge 's Philharmonia there was an added interest to your music-making : the enormous repertory you managed to acquire and record . |
21 | ‘ So the wills we made last week are irrelevant . ’ |
22 | When they reached the Ferry Beach at New Passage they made all speed to the hospital and to the ‘ dead house ’ , which held seven coffins . |
23 | They had to take many economic decisions in the course of each annual cycle , and according to their status and wealth they made different decisions from one another in various places and over the year . |
24 | Indeed when Richard marched against Angoulême he made this move after taking counsel with the barons of Poitou . |
25 | On his return he made common cause with Ben Tillett and others to establish a National Transport Workers ' Federation which had its first conference on 1 June 1911 . |
26 | Of the climbers who made written comment , the majority were in favour of a bolt placement . |
27 | The GP who made that referral should understand the options available and the implications of his referral . |
28 | To get a wider picture than I had obtained from the local bookshops I made special journeys to various places , and acquired every library book I came across , only restricting myself by not acquiring more than one book from each library . |
29 | In my first year as Beattie I made eighteen commercials . |
30 | But a new crisis then broke out in NATO which made further talks with Russia impossible : after four years of discussion about West German rearmament , on 30 August the French parliament finally rejected EDC . |