Example sentences of "[prep] make [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 My interests , after making a lifelong detour through the natural sciences , medicine and psychotherapy , returned to the cultural problems which had fascinated me long before , when I was a youth scarcely old enough for thinking .
2 Williamson 's advice to the organizational designer is to operate in a discriminating way , that is only after making a comparative assessment of the costs of using one organizational form rather than another .
3 The length of the adjusted pack was enough to cater for my unusually long back and after making a small adjustment to the shoulder strap attachment plates which can be swivelled to close or widen the gap between them at the neck , I had a very good fit .
4 After making a good meal I asked how much I owed .
5 After making a political volte-face he went on , without even a glimmer of embarrassment , to be responsible for bringing in the council tax .
6 After making a general attribution based on design , you should next take into account the colour scheme and tonal qualities of the rug .
7 Dowie was delighted at his goal , and it was no more than Northern Ireland deserved after making a positive start in atrocious conditions .
8 On the same course last week , Wonder Man lost his unbeaten chasing record after making a bad blunder at the penultimate fence .
9 After lunch , Reeve removed Cairns with his eighth ball in Test cricket after making a belated entry into the attack in the 108th over , but only after Nottinghamshire 's new signing had made an increasingly fluent 61 .
10 It was soon over , the patient was shown out after making a further appointment , and they were admitted .
11 Rugby League ref turned raconteur Billy Thompson was again the speaker , booked after making a big hit at Darlington Cricket Club 's do .
12 I think I left the Bench at least with an impression that they had someone very special to deal with , I was , of course , all the time praying that no one for the police would ask for his Conduct Sheet , which they overlooked after making a dutiful response to the Bench , and I hurried away to be met outside the Court by Stewart , who at once asked me to lend him a pound .
13 Melrose played six tests up to 1979 after making a magnificent debut when the 1978 Wallabies trounced the All Blacks by a record 30–16 margin in the Third Test at Auckland 's Eden Park .
14 ‘ They wasted no time in getting me up to the theatre , and after making the General promise not to take my arm off I gave a running commentary as the ether took effect .
15 Pozdyshev also reaffirmed that Russia plans to keep its Chernobyl-type reactors in operation until well into the next century " after making the necessary safety changes " .
16 How to get back to either place after making the equivalent response to a 999 call is not clear as no P.O.D .
17 Glasgow 's Joe Kelly , the British bantamweight champion , will fight Dane Johnny Bredahl for the European title after making the first defence of his crown against Drew Docherty of Croy on April 27 .
18 Soon after making The Public Enemy Cagney was to publicize his battle with Warner Bros over the roles he was being made to play and it became very evident that he was a shrewd and realistic businessman who perfectly understood his commercial and artistic value to the studios .
19 Yet many women are very happy after making the huge decision to put ambition on hold , for whatever reason .
20 THE Princess of Wales charmed her Korean hosts yesterday after making an extraordinary pact with Prince Charles .
21 But Christopher was playing happily in hospital last night after making an astounding recovery .
22 1.62 As we have seen , when the defendant pays into court after making an interim payment , he must ensure that this notice of payment in states that the interim payment has been taken into account ( Ord 29 , r15 ) if he wants to put the plaintiff on risk for the aggregate of the two payments .
23 Police are particularly anxious to hear from a man who suddenly hung up after making an anonymous call to the incident room in January .
24 That would of made a good conversation , why did you give Michelle the glass ?
25 Erm he would of made a good singer , yes .
26 BELOW Making a detailed scale drawing of a vertical section can take as long as excavating the feature in the first place .
27 Bully Boy , who had been backed from 20-1 down to 9-1 , was a fence clear by the time the third obstacle was jumped and , despite making a terrible blunder at the fifth , he never looked likely to be challenged .
28 In a separate development , British Aerospace and Thomson CSF of France confirmed they were considering making a joint offer for Ferranti .
29 The government had stated that it was considering making a formal application for membership , as Sweden had done in July .
30 Remember the sensational flurry a couple of years back when we picked up word that IBM Corp was considering making an agreed offer for Apple Computer Inc ?
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