Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Truman has made a number of discoveries and new attributions , not without correcting even the minutest mistake in the previous catalogue . |
| 2 | Moreover the interpreter of a text has to make a decision on the relative importance of the different elements in a work , and he has to find a way of relating these elements to one another . |
| 3 | So , when the play starts making a lot , I get this extra money on top of my royalty ! ’ |
| 4 | Swindon has made a name for itself attracting overseas investment into Britain , American , Japanese and German . |
| 5 | Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention . |
| 6 | Virani has made a fortune from acting as middle-man , between the English property tycoon and the Asian shopkeeper . |
| 7 | There perhaps you would say the id is beginning to dominate the ego , but in accepting these extreme cases of , of psychotics who are severely divorced from reality , the , what always happens is the id has to make a demand on the ego which then gratifies it . |
| 8 | The drinks industry has made a gesture towards its concern about alcohol misuse by setting up the Portman group . |
| 9 | This chapter has made a number of points about the way in which PNP policy was formulated and communicated ; about the means and manner of its interpretation ; its substance ; and the strategies adopted to secure its implementation . |
| 10 | The president has made a habit of breaking election promises . |
| 11 | Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the United States has made a bid for that work ? |
| 12 | Erm y'know that that sort of thing when they when they y'know when they might be , when they feel when they feel that some some other bloke 's making an approach to them , when they feel that er y'know erm somebody finds them attractive , when they think that some other bloke has made a pass at them or something like that y'know they sort of react in a hostile way but y'know there 's that suspicion that mm er y'know kind of er it 's because they 're insecure about their masculinity , it 's because they feel threatened or something like that . |
| 13 | The group 's Snob subsidiary is steadily raising its sales per square foot and management has made a breakthrough at the previously troubled Peter Brown menswear acquisition , which has performed markedly better since June . |
| 14 | In general terms , any group of people wishing to carry on business under English law has to make a choice between three distinct legal forms of organisation , the company , the partnership and a hybrid known as the limited partnership . |
| 15 | Allegations that the expert has made a mistake will succeed only if the mistake is an error so fundamental that no expert is likely to have made it . |
| 16 | Following concerns expressed by the Visiting Group , a consultant has made a report on environmental conditions in the Library . |
| 17 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER actor Peter Polycarpou has made a shock admission . |
| 18 | ‘ The children 's home has made a mistake , ’ he said unhappily , ‘ and sent a girl , not a boy . ’ |
| 19 | Frank has made a career of knocking on doors , finding the wood is solid and going round the back way . |
| 20 | One party or the other will almost always be in a position to complain that the judge has made a mistake , that the " right " was his , not his opponent 's . |
| 21 | WIMBLEDON champion Andre Agassi has made a surprise appearance at the All England Lawn Tennis Club for lunch . |
| 22 | The Institute of Directors has made a submission to the Chancellor of the Exchequer arguing that ‘ the UK should take immediate unilateral action to resolve the problem ’ . |
| 23 | According to security sources , a UDR man recently charged with serious terrorist offences has made a series of detailed statements to police naming other members of the regiment as being involved in illegal activities . |
| 24 | Certainly , it is sometimes said that a claim for conspiracy gives the plaintiff procedural advantages , but the reality of this may turn on how far it is to be held on ordinary principles that instigation or procurement suffices to make a person who does not participate in the act a joint tortfeasor . |
| 25 | Eva recollects making a commitment to Christ when she became a junior soldier . |
| 26 | But the tall Welshman aims to make a Eubank-Piper conflict equally appealing . |
| 27 | If a nonresident wishes to make a tax effective gift out of UK source income he should use a Deed of Covenant . |
| 28 | This means that the seller has made a return of 50 per cent on his initial investment of 200 in just five days while the buyer has lost 50 per cent of his initial investment . |
| 29 | ‘ Crusaid has made a donation to almost every major HIV/AIDS project in the UK ’ |
| 30 | Yet Souleymane Cisse has made a movie anyone can enjoy . |