Example sentences of "[noun] have made 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 | Swindon has made a name for itself attracting overseas investment into Britain , American , Japanese and German . |
| 3 | Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention . |
| 4 | Virani has made a fortune from acting as middle-man , between the English property tycoon and the Asian shopkeeper . |
| 5 | The drinks industry has made a gesture towards its concern about alcohol misuse by setting up the Portman group . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The president has made a habit of breaking election promises . |
| 8 | Is the right hon. and learned Gentleman aware that the United States has made a bid for that work ? |
| 9 | Could the professor have made a mistake ? |
| 10 | erm called Bocodonism and it turns out , find out later in the book that the reason they outlawed this is because of the guy Bocodon who was , who originated the religion had made a deal with the head of the state of the country that he would outlaw it , so that 's how the religion thrived , because it was outlawed |
| 11 | The CPV had made a number of errors in the past ; it had taken too much time setting forth the initial stage of the transitional period to socialism and had made " many mistakes " in reforming prices , wages and money and in ideological and organizational tasks . |
| 12 | And yet the best form of relief for this boy whom grief had made a man would be in action . |
| 13 | Before that , however , the British High Command had made a decision of the utmost ineptitude . |
| 14 | Gulliver wanted to step down in August because of business commitments but was asked to carry on by chairman Wallace Mercer until the club had made a decision about a new stadium . |
| 15 | The opponent in the West seat had made a call of a weak 2 Hearts , which suggested that he had a 6 card Heart suit and not many high cards in his hand . |
| 16 | Later , Lucien realised just how fortunate he 'd been when Mandru 's agent had made a bid for him at Por Tanssie . |
| 17 | I suggested , as a possibility , the events of AD 196 , when in an Imperial civil war the governor of Britain , Clodius Albinus had made a bid for the throne . |
| 18 | So much of their lives , each of the three children , the house in Kensington Park Road and now , it seemed , their summer holiday , followed inexorably after Molly had made a decision . |
| 19 | In the effort to spice up the Enya alliance , some journalists have made a meal out of ‘ menage a trois ’ speculation . |
| 20 | In Committee and on the Floor of the House , the Opposition have made a series of spending pledges with other people 's money , and pledges to slash the profits of industries that need profits in order to invest . |
| 21 | Rather , the authors have made a selection and described them fully in order to explain and illustrate several different military strategies . |
| 22 | How the Coen Brothers have made a dream out of a nightmare |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Following concerns expressed by the Visiting Group , a consultant has made a report on environmental conditions in the Library . |
| 27 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER actor Peter Polycarpou has made a shock admission . |
| 28 | ‘ The children 's home has made a mistake , ’ he said unhappily , ‘ and sent a girl , not a boy . ’ |
| 29 | Frank has made a career of knocking on doors , finding the wood is solid and going round the back way . |
| 30 | 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 . |