Example sentences of "[noun] has made a [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Following concerns expressed by the Visiting Group , a consultant has made a report on environmental conditions in the Library . |
| 13 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER actor Peter Polycarpou has made a shock admission . |
| 14 | ‘ The children 's home has made a mistake , ’ he said unhappily , ‘ and sent a girl , not a boy . ’ |
| 15 | Frank has made a career of knocking on doors , finding the wood is solid and going round the back way . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | WIMBLEDON champion Andre Agassi has made a surprise appearance at the All England Lawn Tennis Club for lunch . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Crusaid has made a donation to almost every major HIV/AIDS project in the UK ’ |
| 21 | Yet Souleymane Cisse has made a movie anyone can enjoy . |
| 22 | One of the organisations has made a pledge of £25,000 to the appeal . |
| 23 | But Mr Ishihara has made a career out of being shocking , and he has a good motive . |
| 24 | Each of the 22 years of the von Kuenheim rule BMW has made a profit and , 1974 fuel crisis year aside , has increased production . |
| 25 | Thus if B orders goods on its terms and S responds by acknowledging the order on its own , different terms , S has made a counter offer ( see British Road Services Ltd v Arthur Crutchley & Co Ltd [ 1968 ] 1 All ER 811 ) . |
| 26 | The Federal Assembly has made a mess of the country 's name , rejecting the Czecho-Slovakia with a hyphen and finally agreeing on the Czech and Slovak Federated Republic ( CFSR ) . |
| 27 | Ansoff has made a distinction between : |
| 28 | My right hon. Friend has made a number of important points about the changes that will be necessary if European monetary union is not to do the country enormous damage . |
| 29 | My hon. Friend has made a sound point . |
| 30 | The court has made a direction to the local authority that the guardian ad litem be allowed to have continuing involvement with a view to making an application in due course if thought appropriate . |