Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gooch has scored 2124 runs at an average of 50.57 , whereas Gower has made 2183 runs at 50.76 . |
| 2 | Although Lukic has made bad mistakes at ( unfortunaltely ) critical times I do n't think he is a complete donkey . |
| 3 | Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’ |
| 4 | Over the last two decades ICI has made significant progress in improving energy efficiency [ see graph ] . |
| 5 | ‘ Over the years ICI has made significant reductions in its mercury emissions , ’ explained Phil Edwards . |
| 6 | Highland has made strenuous efforts , through cross-shareholdings and a trading link with Remy Cointreau , to improve international distribution , and this is gradually paying off . |
| 7 | Last season definitely took a turn for the better when Kerslake came , and Kelly has made this season 's success in no small part . |
| 8 | From the butt , the water flows through a bath ( you 'd better believe it ) containing more gravel and sacks : Ken has made full use of the overflow and plughole to circulate the water fully through the media before it returns to the pond via a glide cascade made of liner-covered wood . |
| 9 | Daniel Becker , director of the global warming programme of the US environmental group , the Sierra Club , declared that : " The United States helped make this conference a failure . |
| 10 | He was , as a bacteriologist , interested in the microbiological aspects , and as an enthusiast for technical methods , in the use of Penicillium extracts to make selective culture media ( i.e. media in which a required organisms will grow readily while unwanted contaminants fail either through lack of an essential nutrient or because something is present which stops them ) . |
| 11 | It took time before Byrnes began to make full use of the American foreign service , let alone to give much thought to working with the British Foreign Office . |
| 12 | Edward started to make unusual entries in his diary . |
| 13 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 14 | Investigator Ken Randall found Gooda Walker had made unorthodox use of ‘ time and distance ’ insurance policies , which led to a possible £10 million overstatement of profits for 1988 on one syndicate , 290 . |
| 15 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 16 | In his answer , Gilmore also took up and dismissed as totally unfounded a claim which Paisley had made several weeks earlier in the Commons that his own life was in danger from government agents . |
| 17 | In his letter Prawiro said that Indonesia had made great efforts to forge a relationship with the Netherlands after " an exceedingly painful historical past resulting from centuries of inhuman colonial subjugation " . |
| 18 | But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law . |
| 19 | Three years after entering films Roach had made enough money from Lloyd comedies to build his own studio in Culver City . |
| 20 | But before those two goals Arsenal had made heavy weather of things in a first-half that they dominated , with Wright sending a header and a shot over the Everton bar . |
| 21 | Although PLO chairman Yassir Arafat had made strenuous efforts to ensure a consensus within the organization in advance of the PNC meeting , neither Hamas nor the Damascus-based Palestine National Salvation Front ( PNSF ) and its affiliated organizations attended the Algiers session , while representatives of Islamic Jihad attended only in an independent capacity . |
| 22 | Lyell had made adaptational considerations alone completely decisive in determining the timing and placing of both species extinctions and species origins . |
| 23 | In a statement , the foreign ministers said political and economic reforms in Poland and Hungary had made considerable progress but added : ‘ The process remains fragile and could be called into question by economic problems . |
| 24 | BROTHER CADFAEL had made one journey to the hamlet of Preston in search of the young man Aldhelm , only to find that he was away in the riverside fields of the manor of Upton , busy with the lambing , for the season had been complicated by having to retrieve some of the ewes in haste from the rising water , and the shepherds were working all the hours of the day . |
| 25 | And with a near full strength team Middlesbrough hope to make full use of their home advantage tomorrow ( 1pm ) . |
| 26 | Today , Rennie admitted making more threats to Mr Loren in a park in Cheltenham . |
| 27 | Bank of Ireland has made significant cost savings with the introduction of Bank Assistants and it is now time to redistribute some of those savings amongst those who most deserve it . |
| 28 | Here the NHS has made considerable progress in recent years since the introduction of the Appraisal of Options Procedure . |
| 29 | Wehmiller has made five acquisitions in the last year , the largest being the US group 's Holmatic and Kartidg Pak . |
| 30 | Although Cypress has made great efforts to get the HyperSparc to the launch platform so quickly ( when compared to Viking , see front page ) — the design process spanned just 18 months — Cypress has one major problem : it has no customers signed-up for the thing yet . |