Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] make [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Edward started to make unusual entries in his diary . |
| 4 | But the DoH had made huge efforts to provide training for home helps through the training support grant and NVQs . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 " . |
| 9 | But emigration to the United States had made this restriction anachronistic and so the Liberal government altered the law . |
| 10 | Three years after entering films Roach had made enough money from Lloyd comedies to build his own studio in Culver City . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Lyell had made adaptational considerations alone completely decisive in determining the timing and placing of both species extinctions and species origins . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Today , Rennie admitted making more threats to Mr Loren in a park in Cheltenham . |
| 17 | Eve had made short work of anyone who took advantage of Benny 's gentle ways . |
| 18 | North Korea had made immense progress with the assistance of the Soviet Union . |
| 19 | And Fergus had made that final , overwhelming sacrifice so that Ireland should be safe , and so that the Wolfqueen should regain Tara . |
| 20 | Maslonikov wrote in Pravda that the DPRK had made huge strides with the aid of the USSR . |
| 21 | The court was told Woodhatch had made many enemies while working as a director of a roofing firm . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Well Laura and Gemma wanted to make these pasties and she 'd asked me at the weekend and I did n't have the time because I think Irene came down cos I asked Irene whether she 'd looked after , you know I 'm at college until three , and she said yeah I 'll pick them up and er I could n't get her out at then so I promised she could make them so , I said alright you and Gemma make them , anyway they did very well they made them in about fifteen minutes because we had to go and get Emily at four from school , I said hurry up , hurry up put the water in Emily quick stick them together shove them now and put them in the oven |
| 26 | AT&T and British Telecom refused to make any comment . |
| 27 | Cameron continued to make intelligent use of the ball . |
| 28 | He had reason to believe , he said , that the Normans in Herefordshire had made good use of the Roman building-materials ready to hand , and there was no reason why others should not do the same . |
| 29 | The plaintiffs ' case was that Peats and Coopers had made mistakes of mixed fact and law , and that they were entitled to ask the court to determine whether or not Coopers had made those mistakes . |
| 30 | Mrs Diggory had made some effort , and the little room was at least warm from a small fire in the grate , and there was a down coverlet on the narrow cot bed . |