Example sentences of "have make [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Spotted Orange has made one piece of bogwood its home , but does not appear to make any aggressive moves against any of the other fish . |
| 2 | George Michael 's counsel told the court that Sony has made worldwide profits of over fifty two million pounds from the singer 's recordings , whereas Mr Michael has made profits of over seven million pounds . |
| 3 | In the New Left Review , Benedict Anderson has made sharp criticisms of the work of the journalist and poet James Fenton which compare it with that of Kapuscinski and Naipaul . |
| 4 | The first is the launch by Corin of a revolutionary universal hip that enables surgeons to tailor hip replacements to the patient , whilst the second is the advance by AEA of a technique for measuring bone density that has made early detection of bone wastage possible for the first time . |
| 5 | He has been helped by Labour 's manifesto commitment to electrify the line to London , and has made much emphasis of his local record . |
| 6 | British research has made much use of the General Health Questionnaire ( GQH ) , which despite its name actually seems to index minor psychiatric morbidity ( ill-health ) . |
| 7 | To help in discovering the organisation and the capabilities of our faculty for perceiving speech , we need to be able to produce very small and finely-controlled differences in speech sounds , and experimental phonetics has made much use of speech produced by machines called speech synthesisers . |
| 8 | The organiser of The Other Story , Rasheed Araeen , has made much study of the art criticism of the early Seventies and the post-modernist theories of the Eighties , and his work looks as though it has no knowledge of the world not gleaned from art magazines . |
| 9 | The Chancellor has preserved his flexibility to adjust duties between different categories of drinks , but has made little use of that flexibility in the face of overwhelming evidence that market conditions have changed fundamentally in favour of wines . |
| 10 | It has been a lack of progress on other fundamental changes in society that has made effective implementation of either programme so difficult . |
| 11 | By a whole series of moves , which were discussed in detail in Part II , the Government has made this form of welfare far less attractive — both in the level of payment , and the terms under which it can be obtained . |
| 12 | If the holder 's vehicles suffer prohibitions because of unroadworthiness or overloading , if he has made false statements of intent which have not been fulfilled , if there has been a material change of circumstances relating to the licence holder or if an unnominated operating centre has been used , the LA may also revoke , suspend , curtail or prematurely terminate the licence . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Economic League report on The Present Trend of Communism in Britain alleged that " the Communist Party has made full use of the Left Book Club , enabling it for the first time to make effective contact with some 50,000 members of the middle class " . |
| 15 | Kenya has made most use of import licensing , causing , some would say , most of the investors ' problems there . |
| 16 | It too has made some disposals of companies during the year , has reduced the number of operating subsidiaries by amalgamation and has raised the pro-file of its internal audit team . |
| 17 | Ashton , too , has made vivid use of occupational gesture from time to time as , for example , when his ‘ Swiss Miss ’ milks her cow with the help of the three boys in Façade . |
| 18 | Although Aldo Ciccolini is Neapolitan by birth , he has lived in France since 1949 and taught at the Paris Conservatoire , and has made fine recordings of French piano music including works by Saint-Saëns and Satie . |
| 19 | Traditional library instruction has made considerable use of the lecture method for large groups , the guided tour for smaller groups , and individual help to the student who asks for this at the information desk . |
| 20 | In recent years , however , the Child Poverty Action Group has made considerable use of judicial review as a way of attacking what they see as faults in the social security system , and this has to some extent overcome the barriers to the use of judicial review in this area . |
| 21 | In such cases the nominated auditor still has to make professional enquiry of the existing auditor even if he is not qualified to audit , and whether or not he is a member of the Institute . |
| 22 | Cos every country has to make some sort of farming tools , has to make some plates , you know you 've seen photographs and you 've seen pictures , some countries all have some sort of factory . |
| 23 | I see you 've made several versions of |
| 24 | You would have the right only if you 'd made good use of your experience of life . ’ |
| 25 | Having made all kinds of good resolutions after Ladakh , he fell out of them as soon as he returned to his usual academic haunts in Oxford and New York ; painfully , he tried again . |
| 26 | At 8.00 a.m. 383 men under General Miles — having made four days of forced marches from Fort Keogh — swarmed over the southern bluffs . |
| 27 | A 57-year-old man , who had been forced to retire from work because of chronic ill health , was admitted to hospital having made severe lacerations of his neck with a knife . |
| 28 | The man was still a spectator , walking slowly towards the action , now , but without having made any kind of a decision . |
| 29 | The bestowal of a right upon a third party gives rise to expectations on the part of that third party that the parties will act in conformity with the treaty in their relations with itself ; without necessarily having made any commitment of its own it will see itself as the beneficiary of the exchange of promises between the parties . |
| 30 | Having made several copies of the report , he returned the original to the General . |