Example sentences of "[v-ing] made [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ainslie Thin said the Booksellers Association 's Books for Giving made a strong impact in Scotland . |
| 2 | Under emergency procedure I put in the words in the second line , after having made every reasonable effort to consult with the chief executive . |
| 3 | The psychological structure for the talker requires , broadly speaking , two kinds of pretence : ( 1 ) an emotional one of having made a momentous decision and ( 2 ) a fictitious factual background . |
| 4 | ‘ I do not accept that David Trippier is supporting the action of the trade unions , or is asking me to go to arbitration , or expects that the management , having made a final offer , should move from that final offer . ’ |
| 5 | Having made a new table to replace a rather unsteady card table , there being no local shop which sold green baize , I opted for green Heuga carpet tiles . |
| 6 | Having made a perfect pain of myself ( not very hard ) on the Edelrid stand last year , it 's good to see their Full Carbon Helmet now has elastic and a headtorch clip front and back . |
| 7 | South Korea formally submitted its application for UN membership on Aug. 5 , North Korea having made a similar application in July [ see p. 38341 ] . |
| 8 | He also found that Locke , once having made a similar distinction , provided no good reason for belief in a world over and above the ideas we have of it . |
| 9 | He was sent down from Eton in 1863 for a few months for having made a forbidden visit to a Jesuit house . |
| 10 | Being Loppe , he solved the problem of protocol by returning silently to his role of major domo , having made a small accommodation with Galiot whom , after all , he had trained . |
| 11 | I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work . |
| 12 | Unfortunately they are not usually repeatable , so having made a superb jumper for your mother , you will probably be unable to make one for yourself . |
| 13 | Having made a tentative decision to come back to nursing , it would be similarly useful to compare your reasons for doing so in the light of the previous exercise . |
| 14 | If you do not have a microscope of your own , prepare a slide as above and take it , without delay , to a veterinary consultant specialising in fish diseases ( having made a prior appointment , since speed is of the essence ) . |
| 15 | People may drift into a job without ever having made a positive decision . |
| 16 | They are going to a planet celled Malecandra ( which turns out to be Mars ) and , having made a previous recce there , they are under the impression that the inhabitants are fierce and eat men . |
| 17 | Smaller companies or companies not having made a previous acquisition will often ask us to act as intermediaries . |
| 18 | Theoretically , it is conceivable that , say , experiencing regret ( the verb ) at having made a wrong decision and depicting regret ( the adjective ) are a different genre . |
| 19 | The damage to the mast has been repaired and three Army officers , Garfield Smith , Nick Bate and Richard Nicholson , have joined the crew , Mandy Gallow and Tim Morris having made a scheduled return to duty . |
| 20 | Lucker returns from town , having made a whole tribe of redneck friends who for once put away their normal prejudices for the sake of broadening their knowledge . |
| 21 | Having made a dignified protest , he returned to London . |
| 22 | ‘ One 's whole life is just a perpetual traffic between the grimness of reality and one 's fleeting dream of happiness , ’ Tchaikovsky had said , who had perished by being shopped by a forgotten grey jurist , who considered him a disgrace to the Legal Profession ( because he was gay ) , Tchaikovsky having made a false start in law . |
| 23 | Sheridan , universally unpopular and having made a boorish fool of himself yet again , looked predictably furious . |
| 24 | Bulgaria 's lack of a democratic tradition and organization was a stumbling block for the main opposition grouping , the Union of Democratic Forces ( UDF ) , which was also seen as striking too negative a tone in its campaign , and as having made a tactical error in spending time campaigning abroad , thus exacerbating the UDF 's image as a party of the intellectual urban elite . |
| 25 | However , having made the above comment , it must be stated that in the early 1980s the external debt situation of some LDCs made banks more cautious in their dealings with smaller and less well known banks and financial centres . |
| 26 | On July 12 Castro congratulated the deputies on " not having made the least concession in these difficult moments " ( referring to the growing economic crisis ) . |
| 27 | In a divorce case , a Dutchwoman was unable to prove actual service of process on her husband in Great Britain , so by virtue of Article 15(1) judgment could not be given in the matter ; the court , however , was prepared to give judgment in default under Article 15(2) , the Netherlands having made the necessary declaration , once the petitioner could satisfy it as to the items listed in that provision . |
| 28 | The sensible thing to do , having made the initial impact , was to walk off in a slow and menacing way , leaving Quigley to gibber . |
| 29 | Indeed , two of the most popular reference books contain errors in their tables of regnal years , their compilers having made the grievous mistake of assuming the method is a straightforward one , when in fact it is not . |
| 30 | On April 29 , JS sponsored a lunch at Stationers ' Hall in the City of London held to honour the person identified by the horticultural industry as having made the biggest contribution to commercial horticulture in 1992 . |