Example sentences of "to have made a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 2 | The interchange of routes between operators complicates analysis , but operators in South Wales also appear to have made a net loss of some 12 per cent of mileage since 1939 . |
| 3 | But Prestel does seem to have made a convincing case for its role in educational computing . |
| 4 | Whereas a woman who dies before her husband is considered to have made a good death and her body is decked in a married woman 's finery , one who survives her husband is somehow always blamed for his death and must never put on finery again as a penance . |
| 5 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 6 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 7 | Apple is said not to have made a final commitment to release the software , and the big question is where Apple sees the base of applications for it , but word is that if the go-ahead is given , the product could come to market before the end of the year . |
| 8 | Remarkably , Vlasov 's integrity seems to have made a genuine impression on his Nazi captors . |
| 9 | This factor seems to have made a solid contribution towards forging the Iranian forces into a much more effective fighting machine than might have been expected in 1979 . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , he seems to have made a complete balls of it , ’ said Sir Harry . |
| 11 | ‘ I do n't seem to have made a brilliant start so far — getting lost and being late on my first day must be something of a record ! ’ |
| 12 | The one idea that can be said to have made a firm impression from the psychoanalytic approach to dreaming is that these experiences come from within the mind , rather than from outside ( although in the case of Jung 's psychology even this is not clear ) . |
| 13 | My hon. Friend , and the medical profession more widely , seemed to me to have made a powerful case against the rigid operation of the list size criterion . |
| 14 | Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’ |
| 15 | Yet I perceive there is still some way to go before voluntary and statutory bodies can claim to have made a serious break-through in mobilising action . |
| 16 | He claims that after his departure no one seems to have made a serious effort to keep workers informed on the dangers of the process , and especially of the need to cool it . |
| 17 | Paul Hernon 's costumes feature several vivid patchwork quilts for the nobility ( though one seems to have made a pioneering landfall from The Mikado ) and others suggest cousinship with Little Plum . |
| 18 | Now Daniel , 10 , appears to have made a remarkable recovery with just chemotherapy treatment and cancer tablets . |
| 19 | ‘ Your ankle appears to have made a remarkable recovery , ’ he said caustically , switching the subject . |
| 20 | ‘ As I say , sir , my father appears to have made a full recovery and I believe he is still a person of considerable dependability . |
| 21 | The Committee concluded that the broadcasters could legitimately claim to have made a praiseworthy attempt to deliver the sort of programmes they had promised . |
| 22 | Any estate owner who achieved this might be thought to have made a notable bargain . |
| 23 | Donaldson side-stepped to avoid two solicitors in conversation , youngish men who seemed to have made a conscious effort to propel themselves into a facsimile of late middle-age . |
| 24 | Secretly , though I had every sympathy for Surkov , I thought him much more likely to have raped a woman when drunk than Miss Hayes-Drummond was to have made a false accusation . |
| 25 | She seemed to have made a rapid improvement in health since I last saw her . |
| 26 | ‘ From this trading account , you would expect the business as a whole to have made a thumping loss for the year … |
| 27 | By 1915 it had become one of the obsessions by which Curtis was possessed serially in the course of his long and active career , and , of all his many projects , the political evolution of India was the one where he could most truly claim to have made a direct contribution to events . |
| 28 | PP : It was absolutely fatal , of course , to have made a royal gala out of the first night . |
| 29 | Can I just enlarge upon that because , and quote from it , by boycotting employment action the CoUncil 's controlling group seem to have made a bad decision , prompted by a desire to score political points in the debating chamber . |
| 30 | It would , I consider , be wrong to read it as requiring that in every case where a witness is shown to have made a previous statement inconsistent with his evidence at the trial , the jury should be directed that such evidence should be regarded as unreliable : see Driscoll v. The Queen ( 1977 ) 51 A.L.J.R. 731 , 740 , per Gibbs J. , with whom Barwick C.J. agreed , at p. 734 . |