Example sentences of "[noun sg] had make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second defendant had made a large number of deliveries to and collections from the premises on Capricorn 's account . |
| 2 | The PR Department had made a good start in the CASB period with Colonel Glass in charge . |
| 3 | Vitor 's tactile greeting had made a sharp contrast with the gruff ‘ hello ’ which Leif had bestowed earlier , before turning all his attention to her . |
| 4 | Most importantly , punk had made a negligible impression in America , the world 's largest market , where 50 per cent of all records are sold . |
| 5 | He doubted that the injection had made a significant difference in the patient 's condition . |
| 6 | And they got a huge boost hours later when it was revealed that the president had made a spectacular recovery in the polls . |
| 7 | The Local Plan inquiry had been taking place and the village had made a large input thanks to help from Rear Admiral Charles Weston and Christine Darter , who had devoted time and effort in presenting the parish point of view on many matters . |
| 8 | Indeed , it was explicit in its judgment that the Public Order Act had made a new offence of prison riot unnecessary . |
| 9 | Within a few months , the child had made a full recovery and the condition has not returned . |
| 10 | The question was not whether the judge had made a wrong decision but whether he had inquired into and decided a matter which he had no right to consider . |
| 11 | Initially Ramos expressed no opposition to the ruling but , on Aug. 17 , he altered his position following pressure from central bank governor Cuisia who had said that individuals would not be let off past breaches ; Justice Secretary Franklin Drilon , who had initially merely commented that the judge had made an erroneous decision , since the new regulations were not even in effect at the time of the ruling , later instructed government lawyers to investigate the possibility of an appeal against the dismissal of charges . |
| 12 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 13 | Florian broke off , looking astonished , and Maria knew him well enough to realise that his attention had made a rare leap outward . |
| 14 | At that point , before any actual emergency had occurred in Algeria and before Coty or any other political leader had made a public appeal to him , de Gaulle declined . |
| 15 | Mama had made a big kettle of soup . |
| 16 | Despite the fanfare which greeted the launch of the Air 180 last year , the subsequent arrival of the Air Huarache had made a greater impression on our testers , who have found it to be both innovative and effective . |
| 17 | The stewards inquiry had to make a quick decision ; any defect in natural justice at that stage would be cured by the hearing before the full committee of the Jockey Club . |
| 18 | No defence was provided for circumstances in which a reasonable person had made a conscious and informed choice to read , see or hear the work in question , provided only that some other reasonable person found it ‘ grossly offensive ’ for him to have done so . |
| 19 | Others have had a boomerang effect by wiping out natural predators or by obligingly clearing the habitat for another , though equally troublesome , pest-Herbicides which killed poppies in wheatfields cleared the way for wild oats , so that until the ( very expensive ) sprays had been developed to cope with them , a trip through the eastern counties in midsummer could create the strong impression that oats had made a spectacular comeback as a cereals crop . |
| 20 | Here , the judge found that the wife had made an exceptional contribution to the wealth generated during their relationship . |
| 21 | The Cuban director of immigration had made a great deal of money from previous boatloads of Jews ; the President of Cuba had not made enough money from them . |
| 22 | The young Irish champion had made a big impression on his regular cross-channel trips last season , and a place with Swift or Van Diemen had been earmarked for him ever since he stunned the British series regulars by winning the opening round of the 1992 championship . |
| 23 | Shortly before this great day Vigilant 's crew had made a large seizure from a Finnish vessel berthed in the Thames , the goods concerned being unearthed from a very clever concealment , and the Queen was very interested to hear about the incident . |
| 24 | Incidentally , I was interested to read in the Financial Times and other newspapers today that the foreman in the Guinness 2 trial of Mr. Seelig and Lord Spens said that the prosecution had made a good job of identifying the structure of that case . |
| 25 | By 1978 , their father had made a new life in Beirut where he met and married Gail , a nurse . |
| 26 | And at first this beast had made a low girning , growling sound , but now he hushed his threatening , and waved his tail slowly , and the little grey man said , ‘ Otto is of the opinion that you are honest . |
| 27 | During interviews with journalists during March Prince Saad invariably answered questions concerning Kuwait 's future political system with a reference to the October 1990 " popular congress " in Saudi Arabia , at which the Amir had made a vague commitment to opposition leaders to restore the 1962 Constitution [ see p. 37759 ] . |
| 28 | J. David Jackson , a young Canadian theoretical physicist working at Princeton New Jersey , read about this discovery in his New York Times ( plus ca change ! ) and within a month had made a pioneering and thorough evaluation of muon catalysed fusion , including studies of the ‘ sticking probability ’ — namely the chance that the muon sticks to the emitted fusion fragments rather than being released to catalyse more fusion . |
| 29 | And the man had made a slight slip , and for that he was being penalized . |
| 30 | She said a black man had made an obscene suggestion to her outside the ladies ’ loo . ’ |