Example sentences of "the [noun prp] make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The MCC made a profit of £568,000 last year , it had administrative expenses of £2.2 million which included Pounds 47,000 spent on ‘ hospitality ’ — now they begrudge us the paltry sum of Pounds 17,000 for a worthy cause for the good of cricket . |
| 2 | During the Civil War , when the Yankees surrounded the southern ports , the Sutherlands made a fortune running the blockades with war supplies from the British and French , as well as helping the cotton export to flow from the ports of Wilmington , Charleston and Savannah . |
| 3 | He would know in an instant if the Bogeyman made a move , or if anyone left the kitchen by the doorway into the hall . |
| 4 | Instruct the LH to make a pause after each pair to allow you time to decide where to put the tick . |
| 5 | The tour subsequently went ahead , but the Wallabies did n't let the grass grow under their feet as they waited for the ANC to make a decision . |
| 6 | When the Guggenheim made a retrospective in 1973 , Tom Messer , the then Director , said the Tate show was fine but he did n't want the prints . |
| 7 | Camdessus made a brief visit to Buenos Aires on Nov. 27 to discuss the possibility of the IMF making a loan of US$3,000 million as a preliminary step to Argentina being able to participate in the US-sponsored Brady Plan for Third-World debt reduction ( introduced in March 1989 — see pp. 36541-42 ) . |
| 8 | PROPOSALS by the BBC to make a drama-documentary about the Orkney child abuse affair have been criticised by a British Association of Social Workers chief . |
| 9 | In the early days of commercial TV , lots of ads were written as jingles composers such as Johnny Johnson in the UK made a fortune out of them and the best were sung by kids and ad people all over the country . |
| 10 | The only plant in the UK making a profit |
| 11 | Robert Gilmore , of General Electric in Schenectady , New York , has used the SAM to make a microphotograph of the image of the Lincoln Memorial that appears on the American one cent piece , but from the wrong side of the coin ! |
| 12 | Whether a body like the National Federation of Self-Employed and Small Businesses Ltd had a sufficient interest to allow them to challenge the Inland Revenue Commissioners when the IRC made a deal with certain non-payers of tax remains unclear . |
| 13 | Thanks largely to the fact it has raised revenue from abroad — Rangers have enjoyed similar benefits from their involvement in the European Champions League and last week took in £1.5 million from the Brugge game — the SFA made a profit of £5.5 million in the last financial year . |
| 14 | In 1063 the Pisans made a lightning raid on Palermo , destroyed some ships and carried off a handsome booty . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'd far sooner watch Big Tom And The Mainliners making a balls of some country'n'western song with their toupees on crooked and them singing in Monaghan accents . |
| 16 | You had the Sargents making a fuss of you . ’ |
| 17 | The Kommandant made a number or telephone calls and then , to my complete surprise , said that my father would be home the following evening . |
| 18 | As Christmas 1983 neared , The Smiths made a lightning visit to America . |
| 19 | It was to be the election in which the SNP made a breakthrough , the election that made Scotland a ‘ Tory-free zone ’ and the case for constitutional change unanswerable . |
| 20 | Chief Inspector West and District Detective Sergeant Treadcole of the ‘ fraud squad ’ of the West Midland Police were seconded to the RUC to make a report on the Maynard scheme . |
| 21 | The Kha-Khan made a sign like a benediction . |
| 22 | The Alice made a minute course correction , a fraction of a fraction . |