Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 2 | Questioning the present position at Bowleswood Farm , John White asked whether the association had made any progress since the last general meeting . |
| 3 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 6 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law . |
| 10 | Three years after entering films Roach had made enough money from Lloyd comedies to build his own studio in Culver City . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Lyell had made adaptational considerations alone completely decisive in determining the timing and placing of both species extinctions and species origins . |
| 14 | With 609 results declared by 4am , Labour had made 44 gains , well short of the advance needed to win power . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | They reached Hampstead before morning lessons were concluded , for the carriage had made all speed . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The Special Task Force had made 102 arrests in the city . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 21 | A vacancy might already have been found if the visitor or the committee had made direct contact with an employer . |
| 22 | Despite the continued indifference of the Labour Party the Communists had made many concessions aimed at attracting support from Labour members . |
| 23 | Although the August amendments to the Public Security Act had made chief district officers ( CDOs ) more accountable by ordering them to maintain law and order through district police , on Oct. 6 the government announced that CDOs had been armed with unlimited powers under the Security Act , as amended in September , to hold anyone in preventive detention for the maintenance of law and order . |
| 24 | The new Insolvent Act had made considerable inroads on the whimsical principles of those days . |
| 25 | After several European countries had made similar pledges , the European Community declared at the end of February a 1995 ban on production of all five " fully-halogenated " CFCs listed under the Protocol , together with the industrial solvents carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform , and halons , used in fire extinguishers . |
| 26 | African countries had received $895 million in new net transfers , and Asian countries $470 million , but Latin American and Caribbean countries had made net repayments of $2,060 million and European , Middle Eastern and North African countries $982 million . |
| 27 | Eve had made short work of anyone who took advantage of Benny 's gentle ways . |
| 28 | At the Albert Hall in January 1912 Law had made this point with characteristic bluntness : Liberals were expert only " in electioneering , in the small trickery of politics " . |
| 29 | Only 170 Arabs had made successful applications in five years . |
| 30 | North Korea had made immense progress with the assistance of the Soviet Union . |