Example sentences of "[noun] has made a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 When we return to the apartment , Maria has made a full confession and is asking Glass to help Leonard out of Berlin .
2 Mr Haszeldine has made a formal complaint to the ward councillors , saying the rats are coming from the depot because it is not kept clean .
3 Already the computer has made a significant contribution to the processing of much of the routine data generated by office staff .
4 Ian has made a better recovery than we dared hope , but it is still important that we do not take his fitness for granted .
5 There was a hint that this was a short term strategy , Mao at the seventh national congress in April nineteen forty five argued the C C P has made a major concession to land to the tiller .
6 The company , which is now owned by British Aerospace has made a spectacular recovery from the heavy losses of the mid-eighties to announce pre-tax profits of sixty five million pounds last year .
7 Now VW has made a strong comeback with its 1,588cc diesel for the Golf 40 years later .
8 Mr Kelly has made a formal complaint against the police and is to lodge one against the ambulance service .
9 I think Leonora Stem has made a tentative identification with a young Mr Thomas Hearst of Richmond who liked to come and play the oboe with the ladies .
10 The US company backed with British money has made a hasty deal to put its much-publicised camera on general sale in Britain after Easter .
11 Each of these three groups has made a first report at the time this Chapter was written .
12 Lloyds has made a clandestine but vigorous pass at Midland and still thinks it is in with a chance and can outbid Hongkong if it can make savings through ruthless high street rationalisation — in effect , putting two banks ' business through one 's network .
13 A chain of kitchenware shops has made a hundred and twenty people redundant and called in the administraors because of financial difficulties .
14 LIVERPOOL 'S under-11 side has made a mixed start to the schools cricket season .
15 Where the defendant has made a voluntary interim payment before proceedings , the plaintiff must still plead the whole of his claim including any special damage for expense paid for by the interim payment .
16 The advent of the private car has made a greater percentage of the population mobile , we can reach many different areas today by private car .
17 While their forwards were outplayed , though Andy Macdonald won the occasional good lineout ball , Heriot 's competed gamely and the arrival of young Lawrie has made a huge difference to their back play , and especially to centres Stoddart and McRobbie , who appear much more confident than earlier in the season .
18 Japanese industry has made a real effort to reduce energy use and particularly to cut oil consumption .
19 The sofa bed or studio couch has made a great difference to one-room living .
20 President Ishaq has made a dignified statement about his enthusiasm for upholding the constitution .
21 Already the rosy periwinkle from Madagascar has made a major contribution to curing childhood leukaemia and other blood cancers .
22 The new development has attracted a £2and1/4 ; million grant from the department of trade and industry ; a regional spokesman says foreign investment has made a huge impact on Telford .
23 This is not to deny that Volvo has made a significant innovation in work organisation and production technology , but it is one evolutionary step and not a revolution .
24 A senior legal figure has made a strong attack on Government policy towards Scotland 's justice system .
25 Bomb damage at the Dublin Road offices has made a serious dent in plans for Oxfam Week ( September 25-October 3 ) .
26 The outcome of the research is embodied in a thesis written by the candidate , and the doctorate is awarded if the thesis is of sufficient standard and it is judged that the research has made a definite contribution to knowledge .
27 Whatever the rights and wrongs of a sad situation , the fact remains that the club has made a dreadful start this season — winning only four of their first 13 games .
28 Fredric Jameson has made a vigorous statement of this difficulty :
29 Your children will inherit a world in which Basil 's influence has made a great contribution .
30 This work has made a great contribution to our understanding of the subject , although the structural diversity of port wine stains confounds the best attempts at mathematical modelling and there is no substitute for good clinical assessments and comparisons of different laser systems .
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