Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three E 32 issues on which the Board agreed to make substantive changes relate to inventories , research and development costs , and borrowing costs . |
| 2 | Some employers tried to make potential participants swear allegiance to heterosexuality before they would pay their conference fee . |
| 3 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
| 4 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 5 | Faced by an enemy triumphant on their own territory , the French parties tried to make common cause . |
| 6 | It took time before Byrnes began to make full use of the American foreign service , let alone to give much thought to working with the British Foreign Office . |
| 7 | Shoppers started making moral choices — boycotting battery-farmed eggs , for example — or political ones , which affected sales of South African fruit . |
| 8 | Edward started to make unusual entries in his diary . |
| 9 | Questioning the present position at Bowleswood Farm , John White asked whether the association had made any progress since the last general meeting . |
| 10 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 11 | Investigator Ken Randall found Gooda Walker had made unorthodox use of ‘ time and distance ’ insurance policies , which led to a possible £10 million overstatement of profits for 1988 on one syndicate , 290 . |
| 12 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 13 | The selective use of vous and tu forms in dialogues involving different characters suggests that the French translator had to make conscious decisions about the nature of the relationships among different characters in the story and about the social standing of these characters as reflected in their adoption of certain conventions to do with approved/non-approved expression of familiarity and/or deference . |
| 14 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 15 | In his answer , Gilmore also took up and dismissed as totally unfounded a claim which Paisley had made several weeks earlier in the Commons that his own life was in danger from government agents . |
| 16 | In his letter Prawiro said that Indonesia had made great efforts to forge a relationship with the Netherlands after " an exceedingly painful historical past resulting from centuries of inhuman colonial subjugation " . |
| 17 | But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law . |
| 18 | As each new AGR started construction , such serious engineering and design problems were encountered that the designers had to make major alterations to the next in the series . |
| 19 | Three years after entering films Roach had made enough money from Lloyd comedies to build his own studio in Culver City . |
| 20 | But before those two goals Arsenal had made heavy weather of things in a first-half that they dominated , with Wright sending a header and a shot over the Everton bar . |
| 21 | Although PLO chairman Yassir Arafat had made strenuous efforts to ensure a consensus within the organization in advance of the PNC meeting , neither Hamas nor the Damascus-based Palestine National Salvation Front ( PNSF ) and its affiliated organizations attended the Algiers session , while representatives of Islamic Jihad attended only in an independent capacity . |
| 22 | Lyell had made adaptational considerations alone completely decisive in determining the timing and placing of both species extinctions and species origins . |
| 23 | With 609 results declared by 4am , Labour had made 44 gains , well short of the advance needed to win power . |
| 24 | In a statement , the foreign ministers said political and economic reforms in Poland and Hungary had made considerable progress but added : ‘ The process remains fragile and could be called into question by economic problems . |
| 25 | They reached Hampstead before morning lessons were concluded , for the carriage had made all speed . |
| 26 | BROTHER CADFAEL had made one journey to the hamlet of Preston in search of the young man Aldhelm , only to find that he was away in the riverside fields of the manor of Upton , busy with the lambing , for the season had been complicated by having to retrieve some of the ewes in haste from the rising water , and the shepherds were working all the hours of the day . |
| 27 | The Special Task Force had made 102 arrests in the city . |
| 28 | The employer 's business was supplying fresh chickens and it was alleged that the employee had made wrongful use of sales information such as customers ' names and addresses . |
| 29 | Ten minutes seemed to make little difference , with the jerry-cans still discernible on the roof-rack . |
| 30 | And the next , and the next ; the mess made making each broom had to be cleared up with that same broom , and wore it away . |