Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The three E 32 issues on which the Board agreed to make substantive changes relate to inventories , research and development costs , and borrowing costs . |
| 2 | Questioning the present position at Bowleswood Farm , John White asked whether the association had made any progress since the last general meeting . |
| 3 | The selective use of vous and tu forms in dialogues involving different characters suggests that the French translator had to make conscious decisions about the nature of the relationships among different characters in the story and about the social standing of these characters as reflected in their adoption of certain conventions to do with approved/non-approved expression of familiarity and/or deference . |
| 4 | With 609 results declared by 4am , Labour had made 44 gains , well short of the advance needed to win power . |
| 5 | They reached Hampstead before morning lessons were concluded , for the carriage had made all speed . |
| 6 | The Special Task Force had made 102 arrests in the city . |
| 7 | The employer 's business was supplying fresh chickens and it was alleged that the employee had made wrongful use of sales information such as customers ' names and addresses . |
| 8 | And the next , and the next ; the mess made making each broom had to be cleared up with that same broom , and wore it away . |
| 9 | But there was a setback on Saturday when the French National League 's ( FNL ) disciplinary committee failed to make any ruling at a nine-hour meeting in Paris because they said they did not have enough evidence . |
| 10 | It sums up perfectly the attitude needed to make good puddings . |
| 11 | A vacancy might already have been found if the visitor or the committee had made direct contact with an employer . |
| 12 | This was the last opportunity the Legal Services Committee had to make oral submissions to the Advisory Committee before the latter produced its advice on both the Law Society 's application for extended rights of audience for solicitors and the CPS/GLS submission seeking to remove the restrictions under para 402(1) ( c ) in the Bar 's Code of Conduct on rights of audience for employed lawyers . |
| 13 | Although the August amendments to the Public Security Act had made chief district officers ( CDOs ) more accountable by ordering them to maintain law and order through district police , on Oct. 6 the government announced that CDOs had been armed with unlimited powers under the Security Act , as amended in September , to hold anyone in preventive detention for the maintenance of law and order . |
| 14 | The new Insolvent Act had made considerable inroads on the whimsical principles of those days . |
| 15 | At the Albert Hall in January 1912 Law had made this point with characteristic bluntness : Liberals were expert only " in electioneering , in the small trickery of politics " . |
| 16 | Elected only ten months ago , the current council had made several changes . |
| 17 | In the early 1950s Highlander work shifted to make educational programs on the civil rights issue its major priority . |
| 18 | The assassin had made two attempts upon her life . |
| 19 | ‘ There 's still a large installed base of SCO out there ’ , explained ICL 's Peter Stuart , vice president of business development , mid-range systems , although the Open Desktop package failed to make any impact , he said . |
| 20 | After Pannone took up the King 's Cross victims ' plight , London Regional Transport agreed to make ex-gratia payments without them having to prove negligence . |
| 21 | STERLING failed to make further headway yesterday following Thursday 's one point rise in base rates but the dollar strengthened despite expectations that US interest rates may soon ease . |
| 22 | A record guaranteed to make any soulboy puke , it 's a dance compilation as nutters ' paradise : anyone not technological had better turn away now . |
| 23 | We saw in Chapter 1 that , in Britain , there is some dispute as to when rehabilitation began to make serious inroads into penal practice : Foucault saw it as manifesting itself in the rise of the prison as the dominant penal institution ; Garland puts it much later , in the early part of this century . |
| 24 | It was so pitifully easy for the customers : the temptation so hard to resist , to pick up a bar or two of chocolate from the counter , a packet of tea from the shelf , even a bag of flour , as my aunt came from behind the counter , passed through to the kitchen , down the steps into the old still-room to draw vinegar from the cask , or paraffin from the tank ( its pump rattling up-down , up-down ) , or across the yard for corn or toppings , or up the back stairs for some item kept on the little landing ; so that the shop began to make small profit or none at all . |
| 25 | The gangling , boyish 28-year-old Canadian actor had made some impression as an innocent in The Flim Flam Man ( 1967 ) and as a Malibu beach bum in The Sweet Ride ( 1968 ) , and seemed to have promise . |
| 26 | It would also guarantee basic state pension for all permanent UK residents , whether or not their spouse had made sufficient contributions . |
| 27 | About my ruined clothes I felt less concern , for I noticed that the flood had made many people shabby . |
| 28 | The discovery of the body had made front-page news , in spite of the continuing saga of the hijack , and one of the features staff had put together a hasty obituary on an inside page . |
| 29 | The war had made many businessmen conscious of the need and opportunities for private banks in both London and the provinces . |
| 30 | She said her husband had made regular visits to the field , but a vet believed some of the dead sheep had been there for at least two weeks . |