Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Questioning the present position at Bowleswood Farm , John White asked whether the association had made any progress since the last general meeting . |
| 2 | With 609 results declared by 4am , Labour had made 44 gains , well short of the advance needed to win power . |
| 3 | They reached Hampstead before morning lessons were concluded , for the carriage had made all speed . |
| 4 | The Special Task Force had made 102 arrests in the city . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A vacancy might already have been found if the visitor or the committee had made direct contact with an employer . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The new Insolvent Act had made considerable inroads on the whimsical principles of those days . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | Elected only ten months ago , the current council had made several changes . |
| 11 | The assassin had made two attempts upon her life . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It would also guarantee basic state pension for all permanent UK residents , whether or not their spouse had made sufficient contributions . |
| 14 | About my ruined clothes I felt less concern , for I noticed that the flood had made many people shabby . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The war had made many businessmen conscious of the need and opportunities for private banks in both London and the provinces . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | From 1968 onwards Nicaragua was repeatedly referred to in the Reports of the Court to the General Assembly as a State that had accepted the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court , and the United Nations Secretariat had made similar listings . |
| 19 | Just as the deputy head had made certain assumptions about the absence of a wedding ring on the candidate 's hand , so this teacher made certain assumptions about the symbolic value of the wedding ring and the way it would be perceived by Catholic governors . |
| 20 | Over the past nine days the convoy had made repeated attempts to reach Srebrenica but was blocked by Bosnian Serb authorities in spite of reports that up to 40 people a day were dying in the town . |
| 21 | Big-hearted Dudley Thomas immediately left his courtroom and returned minutes later clutching the wrapped sandwiches his wife had made that morning . |
| 22 | He wrote to the CVCP , in fact , explaining that the CNAA would be considering courses ‘ in Education ’ , that it intended to approach the whole question with care , and that although the Council ‘ was not taking the initiative in seeking to extend its work in the field of Education , several colleges of education had made informal approaches which could not be ignored … |
| 23 | In 1755 Rousseau 's discovery of the noble savage had made some men think twice before dismissing the barbaric out of hand , and Milton 's ‘ arched walks of twilight groves ’ were thought to resemble the aspiring arches of the Gothic church . |
| 24 | A cardinal error had obviously been made , as the paper had made huge efforts beforehand to consult pressure groups about tackling their subject in an approved fashion . |
| 25 | Myra did n't remind her husband that Rosenstein 's butchery had made more business for Zvi . |
| 26 | Within her narrow experience that man had made many people undeservedly wretched . |
| 27 | The government had made serious proposals during 1988 about reforming the graduate assignment system because of its glaring inefficiencies . |
| 28 | In chapter 2 it was pointed out that the Thatcher government had made strong efforts to curb overall local government expenditure . |
| 29 | A World Bank official reported that the government had made considerable progress in monetary and exchange rate policies . |
| 30 | Economic statistics indicated that the government had made some progress in its diversification plans . |