Example sentences of "made [adj] [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The power to negotiate , which is central to compliance systems , is one which exists by implication only but one made possible because the law is not made concrete or specific . |
| 2 | Although Preston still referred to it privately as the God slot , as he had indicated to Kate it made little or no reference to the Almighty . |
| 3 | Pointing , at best , some sixty degrees off the wind , and drifting downwind at an alarming rate , we made little or no progress during the next three days . |
| 4 | This made little or no sense to them . |
| 5 | When her food arrived , she appeared to eat without appetite , made little or no response to any attempts at conversation and left the table without taking dessert or coffee . |
| 6 | The middle school which both her older boys attended was a long walk from her home and made little or no attempt to involve parents . |
| 7 | In a Financial Times poll of senior businessmen , 70% said the budget made little or no difference to their companies or their view of government policy . |
| 8 | In the 1960s and 1970s a substantial body of evidence emerged which claimed that schools made little or no difference to pupils ' outcomes . |
| 9 | The early versions of this package were subject to quite a lot of criticism , mainly because the user interface of dBFast made little or no use of the fact that you were working in Windows . |
| 10 | The declaration made clear that the Union Treaty need only be signed by the nine republics which were party to the Novoye Ogarevo meeting . |
| 11 | While the communiqué made clear that the alliance needed to confront " new security risks and challenges of a global nature " which threatened " common interests " , it was understood that France had expressed strong reservations about NATO extending its responsibilities beyond European frontiers . |
| 12 | The resolution made clear that the Commission ‘ also expresses its grave concern that there are continuing threats to the life of a citizen of another state which appear to have the support of the government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and whose care is mention in the report of the special representative ’ . |
| 13 | He would like it made clear that the line is not a public right of way , but he does not object to access under suitably controlled circumstances . |
| 14 | The conditions of employment which accompanied Mr. Claydon 's letter of engagement made clear that the Authority reserved the right of transfer . |
| 15 | Neither the U.S. nor Russian statements made clear whether the crash occurred on or beneath the surface . |
| 16 | I made sure that a couple of books were left at home so that there was more room . |
| 17 | Mr Chin had foreseen this difficulty and made sure that no child had majority control of any of the family companies . |
| 18 | A coalition was formed in June 1757 in which Pitt ran the war , and justified his claim ‘ I know that I can save this country , and I know that no other man can ’ , while the Duke of Newcastle made sure that the majority in the House of Commons realized that their business was to vote money for Pitt 's military operations without too much fuss . |
| 19 | She made sure that the door was properly shut , and then said , still speaking in a whisper , " There have been a lot of rumours in the office . |
| 20 | By sinking several Genoese vessels and taking others captive , the English made sure that the port remained in English hands , that ( for some while ) they would control the wide estuary of the Seine , and that they might , in the phrase of the day , ‘ sweep ’ the French off its waters by patrolling the sea . |
| 21 | He wore the suit rarely and in one of the few points of discipline which he managed to impose on himself he always made sure that the suit , or the trousers at least , were pressed immediately after use . |
| 22 | The land could not be inspected because Dr. Rufford did not own it so he made sure that the land was not inspected . |
| 23 | And he 's had it slapped in his face , because this council has provided an adequate budget for the police authority , it has pr , treated it fairly and squarely like every other council committee , and made sure that the service they provide is adequate for the people of this county . |
| 24 | Better news about transport was that the new design for London taxis made sure that the back seat was suitable for lovers . |
| 25 | Nu said openly that , ‘ although the London agreement looked very well on paper he strongly suspected that HMG had first of all made sure that the frontier peoples would not agree to any form of union with Burma ’ . |
| 26 | On this occasion , Paisley made sure that the display was not ignored . |
| 27 | Lloyd made 52 but the rest of the batting disappointed , and , with rain reducing the game to fifty overs each , West Indies managed only 179 . |
| 28 | His father was a shipyard worker , made redundant when the yard was closed . |
| 29 | The Oxford-based charity Oxfam made more than a quarter of a million pounds last year from second-hand and home-made toys . |
| 30 | Radio signalling made more than a debut , helping toward the achievement of one of the decade 's miracles , not only the survival but with greater expectation of long life of much of the Highland lines and many more . |