Example sentences of "[verb] make [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We want them to be bailed.A consular official has made regular visits to the jail . |
| 2 | Britain has made similar appeals to the court in the past but lost them . |
| 3 | One day after a very difficult time with him , I exploded and said to him : ‘ I ca n't say that the Christian faith has made much difference to your life ! ’ |
| 4 | Those familiar with philosophical writing on causation , or touching on causation , will have noticed that our analysis so far of it has taken the terms necessary connection " , " nomic connection " , and " lawlike connection " as synonymous , but has made little reference to laws . |
| 5 | Within the industry , the war has made little difference to most people 's expectations : the reduction , they say , is going to happen . |
| 6 | The addition of nutrients has made little difference to the rate of succession at sites in Sheffield . |
| 7 | Potential sales of his device could be huge , says Mr Garnett , who has made two trips to the US to visit officials from the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency . |
| 8 | Steve Crooks , Hull 's caretaker coach , has made several changes to a 16-man squad in an effort to end a run of three successive defeats . |
| 9 | Councillors in Darlington gave the development the go-ahead after they heard the hotel company Tomorrow 's Leisure has made several changes to the original application submitted last year . |
| 10 | Well , Dave Forbes has made repeated phonecalls to his solicitors in the City . ’ |
| 11 | The association has made repeated complaints to the Scottish Office , and to the administrators of the £55 million compensation funds . |
| 12 | Before discussing the effect which the judicature Acts have had in combining Law and Equity in one court , it will be convenient to note some of the branches of Law in which Equity has made important additions to the Common Law and done work which the Common Law could or did not do . |
| 13 | The conclusion to be drawn from this chapter is clearly a somewhat negative one : the action project has made some difference to certain kinds of dementia sufferer , but overall its impact has been negligible . |
| 14 | Laing Northern , the Newcastle-based building company has made three changes to its management structure . |
| 15 | The only way in which she has made any reference to what happened during the night has been in the form of two pictures . |
| 16 | It is the first time since the split was announced six days ago that Diana has made any reference to the break-up . |
| 17 | The 1988 Act has made fundamental alterations to the power structure of the education system laid down in 1944 . |
| 18 | Since 1982 the government has made twenty-nine changes to the way in which the unemployed are counted , each change resulting in a downward shift in the number said to be unemployed . |
| 19 | He has made 12 trips to Eastern Europe and helped by his Romanian wife Fanica , who he married in November 1990 , has now mastered the language . |
| 20 | Indeed , the investment of the premiums from their general insurance business has made significant contributions to their overall profitability . |
| 21 | It was also suggested that should the Chancellor need to make urgent calls to the International Monetary Fund , his telephone at home was likely to be more secure than calls from a hotel in Blackpool surrounded by journalists . |
| 22 | Higginson , crowning his " busy life among " the Stockport boys ' ventured to make some comments to the Governors in a letter on 14th June , " not through any belief that , in your present position in financial and other matters , you can act upon them soon ; but when and if the ability comes " . |
| 23 | This means that the seller has to make certain undertakings to the buyer . |
| 24 | She is expected to make many changes to the 200-year-old building . |
| 25 | Staff from the unit are expected to make frequent visits to Shetland and will liaise with officials in Whitehall and in Brussels . |
| 26 | Finally , CytR would be expected to make identical contacts to the two cAMP-CRP complexes in deoP2 . |
| 27 | One was to acknowledge that GATT 's rules should take account of levels of economic development , and that developing countries henceforward would not invariably be expected to make reciprocal concessions to the rich , developed countries . |
| 28 | ‘ I wish I 'd made that point to the Committee . ’ |
| 29 | There is not much you can do to make radical changes to other people 's basic life positions , but you can use your awareness of the four ‘ OK — Not OK ’ positions to understand why you sometimes feel hopeless , depressed , victimized and so on . |
| 30 | Tonight there was a moon , starlight even , and he knew that after a few minutes away from the house it would be possible for her to see with surprising clarity ; but moon or no moon , it seemed to make little difference to her and she 'd been spending hours abroad at even the deepest , darkest point in the cycle . |