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 | 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 . |
| 9 | It makes extensive use of CLI commands . |
| 10 | That argument has to rest on the principle that it makes other owners of Utterly Dependables feel better if everyone has one ! |
| 11 | 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 ) . |