Example sentences of "[verb] make a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He has made a great contribution to anchoring the art of architecture to real life , real science and real modernity … |
| 3 | Your children will inherit a world in which Basil 's influence has made a great contribution . |
| 4 | He has made a great number of friends here who wish him the best of luck , and hope he plans to make frequent visits back here . |
| 5 | Starting with Camco , the newly appointed Chief Executive er , has been very , very active and has made a great impact already . |
| 6 | But moving house has made a great difference for me . |
| 7 | Alice has made a great difference . |
| 8 | She has made a great difference to me , she was wonderful . |
| 9 | The sofa bed or studio couch has made a great difference to one-room living . |
| 10 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |
| 11 | After all it was introduced , and Mrs Thatcher has made a great deal of the fact that it is a head tax not a property tax , it 's the voters she wants answerable , well I 've yet to find an empty house that voted . |
| 12 | I have come to appreciate over the years , however , that the extra material they provide makes a great safety net . |
| 13 | The material researchers provide makes a great safety net . |
| 14 | Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery . |
| 15 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 16 | I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work . |
| 17 | ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things . |
| 18 | Piggy might have been able to save the boys ; as with his sensible , mature attitude resulting from the trauma caused by his parents ' death , he could have made a great impact on the boys . |
| 19 | With the inevitable increase in office rent , rates , postage , telephone and stationery etc. it is obvious that we shall all have to make a great effort to overcome this problem . |
| 20 | We do make a great deal of fuss when children fail to match our expectations particularly when standards of behaviour are concerned . |
| 21 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 22 | Stress and conflict belong together , and the way we feel about what we do makes a great deal of difference to our inner store of pressures . |
| 23 | But the single patient with x and not y does make a great deal of difference as far as the theoretical use of the concept is concerned . |
| 24 | Yes a hard disk does make a great deal of difference to how easy a machine is to use . |
| 25 | ‘ Anne — Miss Miggs , ’ began Christine breathlessly , ‘ we 've made a great discovery ! |
| 26 | but I mean other than that , I , I , I 'd like to be dead cautious about that , I , I still think it 's early days , I know we 've made a great success , but it 's early days . |
| 27 | They 've made a great start , but five shots after one round is nothing in this tournament . ’ |
| 28 | I 've made a great deal of progress , as you can see . ’ |
| 29 | He brings with him his radio and prepares for — his — match with Lierse listening to BBC hoping for Leeds goals … and after the Wembley match he went straigth to Batty for changing shirts — i think he said that for the couple of last minutes that was the main thing — not that he had made a great goal or Norway getting a draw . |
| 30 | He had made a great reputation in Berlin between the wars . |