Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although Lukic has made bad mistakes at ( unfortunaltely ) critical times I do n't think he is a complete donkey . |
| 2 | Over the last two decades ICI has made significant progress in improving energy efficiency [ see graph ] . |
| 3 | ‘ Over the years ICI has made significant reductions in its mercury emissions , ’ explained Phil Edwards . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Edward started to make unusual entries in his diary . |
| 9 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 12 | 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 " . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Lyell had made adaptational considerations alone completely decisive in determining the timing and placing of both species extinctions and species origins . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And with a near full strength team Middlesbrough hope to make full use of their home advantage tomorrow ( 1pm ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Here the NHS has made considerable progress in recent years since the introduction of the Appraisal of Options Procedure . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Over and above such day-to-day management , the Church of England has made substantial efforts in recent years to rationalise its portfolio of buildings . |
| 22 | It is a name that has certainly had its share of exposure ever since the 19-year old batsman arrived in England to take the place of Australia 's tearaway fast bowler Craig McDermott , The editorial in the May issue made passing reference to the volte face implicit in a very good batsman taking the place of a very good bowler . |
| 23 | Eve had made short work of anyone who took advantage of Benny 's gentle ways . |
| 24 | North Korea had made immense progress with the assistance of the Soviet Union . |
| 25 | Maslonikov wrote in Pravda that the DPRK had made huge strides with the aid of the USSR . |
| 26 | While West Germany and the UK argued in favour of removing most restrictive legislation ( although the UK had appealed for the treatment of certain oil and gas projects as a special case , while West Germany and Spain had made similar appeals for their coal industries ) , France and Italy demanded that they be allowed to retain their rules restricting the access of foreign contractors to certain projects in these fields . |
| 27 | Onshore , our plant change engineering [ PCE ] contract for Shell Northern Plants at St. Fergus continued to make good progress and we were successful in being able to extend this contract to Shell 's gas terminal at Mossmorran . |
| 28 | Onshore , the company 's plant change engineering ( PCE ) contract for Shell Northern Plants at St. Fergus continued to make good progress and the company was successful in extending this contract to Shell 's gas terminal at Mossmorran . |
| 29 | Nirvana have made heavy metal intelligent and vital — not words you could ever apply to Marky Mark , a 21-year-old Calvin Klein underwear model , former New Kid On The Block and white boy posing as black rapper . |
| 30 | Scotland have made good use of their Anglos over the years . |