Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some employers tried to make potential participants swear allegiance to heterosexuality before they would pay their conference fee . |
| 2 | Three of the schools visited made regular use of a video recording of The Machine Gunners as a basis for a further topic work . |
| 3 | Faced by an enemy triumphant on their own territory , the French parties tried to make common cause . |
| 4 | Shoppers started making moral choices — boycotting battery-farmed eggs , for example — or political ones , which affected sales of South African fruit . |
| 5 | I dared not move until my eyes had made more sense of the place . |
| 6 | As each new AGR started construction , such serious engineering and design problems were encountered that the designers had to make major alterations to the next in the series . |
| 7 | Ten minutes seemed to make little difference , with the jerry-cans still discernible on the roof-rack . |
| 8 | Superficially , the rich countries appeared to make two concessions to the UNCTAD complaint of inequality in international trade . |
| 9 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 10 | Despite the continued indifference of the Labour Party the Communists had made many concessions aimed at attracting support from Labour members . |
| 11 | After several European countries had made similar pledges , the European Community declared at the end of February a 1995 ban on production of all five " fully-halogenated " CFCs listed under the Protocol , together with the industrial solvents carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform , and halons , used in fire extinguishers . |
| 12 | African countries had received $895 million in new net transfers , and Asian countries $470 million , but Latin American and Caribbean countries had made net repayments of $2,060 million and European , Middle Eastern and North African countries $982 million . |
| 13 | Certainly , but knowing that captains had to make official reports on the umpires after each match , only the foolhardy would go against such an influential skipper , who had played six times for the Gentlemen against the Players . |
| 14 | Only 170 Arabs had made successful applications in five years . |
| 15 | Although organisers still hoped the match could resume , the Indians refused to make another attempt to enter the field . |
| 16 | His predecessors had farmed these revenues for less than £50 a year , and in some years failed to make any payment at all . |
| 17 | All sports came to make sharp distinctions between those who received payment and those who did not . |
| 18 | The asbestos-contaminated Cravens Class 105s , Gloucester Class 100s and Park Royal Class 103s were completely wiped out , while the advancing army of Sprinters began to make heavy inroads into the enormous numbers of Metro-Cammell and BR-built units . |
| 19 | The great office blocks of the 1890s had taken over that role , and the office-block stations had made some attempt to match them . |
| 20 | A small jeweller in Switzerland , who for years had made good profits by flagrantly copying de Chavigny designs , using inferior stones , low-carat metals and cheap workmanship , and then passing them off as de Chavigny originals through an impenetrable network of shady dealers and retailers , found its bank was suddenly very glad to extend credit for new workshops and an expansion programme . |
| 21 | George Best , as we saw , was closely linked to ‘ pop culture ’ and international teams began to make special records as part of a ‘ media package ’ for the World Cup . |
| 22 | YOPS aimed to make young people more employable ; some of their training was carried out in colleges , but most at workplaces . |
| 23 | France 's diplomatic successes had made little impact on English opinion , and English military leadership was markedly weaker than it had been during the first phase of the war . |
| 24 | Shop owners had made numerous complaints that delivery lorries could not get to their premises , he said . |
| 25 | These results were backed by solid gains at local elections and it became clear that the Nationalists had made substantial inroads into the Labour vote , at any rate between general elections . |
| 26 | However , three of the North-East 's Tory MPs dismissed Mr Milburn 's accusations and said the NHS reforms had made real progress in shortening hospital waiting lists . |
| 27 | Elton , 45 , sent a cheque to Weston Park Boys School , Southampton , after hearing how the 12-year-olds had to make 180-mile journeys for treatment . |
| 28 | In general , larger firms tended to make more use of qualifications ( possibly reflecting the existence of a trained personnel staff who themselves owe their position to qualifications ) . |
| 29 | Both publications had made similar recommendations . |
| 30 | The justices failed to make any determination or finding upon that issue . |