Example sentences of "it make [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the meeting the SOC finally ceased its efforts to amend the UN draft plan so that it made explicit mention of " genocide " , in reference to the appalling human rights record of the Khmer Rouge government of the late 1970s . |
| 2 | It made pre-tax profits of 95.3 billion roubles in the year ending on January 1st 1993 ( $141m , at the average exchange rate for 1992 ) . |
| 3 | In 1992 it made pre-tax profits of £4.6m on sales of £80m . |
| 4 | Brewin was sold to management by Scandinavian Bank for about £6 million last year , when it made pre-tax profits of £1.4 million on turnover of £14.4 million . |
| 5 | It made brilliant use of a difficult site and united station and thoroughfare in a most satisfying way . |
| 6 | It made good use of two colours and presented a clear financial summary showing how each pound of income was used . |
| 7 | It made short work of our Windows performance tests , WinTach , clocking up an impressive index of over 9.3 . |
| 8 | We know if it made any note of where we 're meant to be going . |
| 9 | When the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics signed Protocols 2 and 3 to the Nuclear Free Zone Treaty , it made interpretive statements of its commitments . |
| 10 | As a piece of recording , the Philips set has one advantage in that it makes best use of the excellent John Alldis Choir and puts them well forward , whereas the perfectly good Lyon Opera Chorus is relegated to the middle distance as usual . |
| 11 | It makes extensive use of CLI commands . |
| 12 | But unlike the P series , which was made entirely of metal , it makes greater use of plastic , a trend pioneered by the likes of IBM and Hewlett-Packard . |
| 13 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 14 | None the less it makes two features of long-term insurance policies very clear . |
| 15 | It makes particular use of the work of scholars who have conducted ethnographic analyses of discretionary behaviour in legal settings ( e.g. Cicourel , 1968 ; Emerson , 1969 ; Manning , 1977 ; Reiss , 1971 ; Ross , 1970 ; Skolnick , 1966 ; Sudnow , 1965 ) . |
| 16 | As he said , it makes some criticism of the European dimension , but in paragraph 8 headed ’ Europe ’ it also says : ’ While local government structure in the UK can not be determined by the nature of European structural funds and the case for regional authorities with power over service delivery has not been made out , the European dimension must nonetheless be considered in the longer term . ’ |