Example sentences of "[verb] make in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was a goal of the highest class , reflecting the progress the 29-year-old striker has made in the five years since he left Blundell Park to earn fame and fortune with Norwich City and Rangers . |
| 2 | What a change the council has made in the regular sweeping of these lanes . |
| 3 | Will the Minister commend Lagan college in my constituency for the progress that it has made in the past 10 years ? |
| 4 | Fergie was not , strictly speaking , Diana 's type ; she was certainly not like her old friends , nor indeed many of the friends she has made in the last few years . |
| 5 | To maintain the advances that it has made in the last few years , Unix needs not only a ‘ viable ’ desktop environment , argues UI , but an attractively sized market for developers to aim at . |
| 6 | I would also appreciate a brief summary of the number and size of acquisitions your company has made in the last three years . |
| 7 | There is , in fact , every indication that Karajan was acutely aware of the temper of the times , though to find evidence of this we do not go to the random rag-bag of recordings he was permitted to make in the early 1940s but to what he immediately turned his mind to with Legge in Vienna in 1947 : Strauss 's Metamorphosen , a recording , still , of unparalleled intensity , and the Brahms German Requiem , a performance ( it was said to be one of Toscanini , s favourite records ) of unbearable directness and poignancy of utterance . |
| 8 | Whatever one thinks of his comparisons , there is no difficulty in conceding in principle that physicists breaking with Newtonian concepts would be struggling to unlearn distinctions and assimilations which other cultures will never have made in the first place , so that the fundamentally different conceptualizations even of a pre-literate culture might illuminate him . |
| 9 | The government has said to the European Community that , of the 7.7-percentage-points improvement it hopes to make in the total public-sector deficit between 1992 and 1996 — from 9.6% of GDP to 1.9% — more than half , 4.1 percentage points , is to come from extra taxes . |
| 10 | ‘ It 's a measure of how much progress we 've made in the past 18 months . ’ |
| 11 | Few of the cast would have seen him in the revues of the late thirties where his career started , but they would all have caught up with the films he had made in the immediate post-war years . |
| 12 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |
| 13 | It drew upon a series of speeches he had made in the late autumn , particularly an address to an all-union student forum . |
| 14 | Afterwards he was haunted by the sound his footsteps had made in the brooding post-dawn silence , the crunch and crackle of his shoes breaking ice . |
| 15 | The heirs of the executed and forfeited rebels lacked the means and the backing to use force to regain what their fathers had lost , and the enemies Edward had made in the extreme north by concluding a truce with the Scots were in no position to make their influence felt . |
| 16 | Within days Charlie had lost all the profit he had made in the past year and suddenly found himself back to square one . |
| 17 | Identify the contribution to profit you have made in the last four weeks . |
| 18 | That is why it will try to con the public that it will not repeal most of the trade union reforms that we have made in the past 12 years . |
| 19 | That shows the progress that we have made in the past 12 years in taking education and training forward . |
| 20 | It would have taken a blind man , or a very naive one , not to spot some connection between their style of play and the kinds of responsibilities and decisions they have to make in the outside world . |