Example sentences of "had [adv] make a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Denning M.R. circumvented section 441(3) by finding that the judge had misconstrued the words in section 411 , had thereby made a jurisdictional error , and therefore , relying on Anisminic and Pearlman , the ‘ no appeal ’ clause was ineffective . |
| 2 | But now , rather like recording afresh over the existing programme on an audio or visual cassette , Sylvia had superimposed a successful situation and had thereby made a significant change in the data recognized by her subconscious . |
| 3 | But they had all made a serious error , himself included . |
| 4 | Crosier ( 1975 ) found fifty definitions so we had better make an early stab at identifying the notion of marketing that is being applied in this book . |
| 5 | He had suddenly made a serious error . |
| 6 | This was the line of reasoning adopted in the Takeover Panel case : the government had apparently made a conscious decision to encourage the setting up of a self-regulatory body , and the Panel operated against the background of a network of statutory provisions relevant to its activities . |
| 7 | The Honourable Alexander Augustus had already made a favourable impression by raising an eyebrow at the antics and constructions of Mr Pocklington on the islands of Derwent Water . |
| 8 | David Norman — a graduate of Eton , McGill and Harvard Business School — had already made a controversial impact on the British search business before setting up his own firm , which now enjoys an annual fee income of over £5m. , ranking in second place behind Russell Reynolds in the pecking order of Britain 's highest-earning headhunters . |
| 9 | I had already made an extensive study of the various methods of language teaching , purely as a hobby , and run a few short courses from my home during the holiday season . |
| 10 | It is generally for the suspect , and no-one else , to decide whether he wants legal advice , and D had already made an informed decision to do without it . |
| 11 | Considering that he had just made a pointless journey of several thousand miles , the young man seemed remarkably equable and spent almost the entire journey sitting cross-legged , spooning purple yoghurt into his mouth from an enormous jar and reading a novel by Thomas Mann . |
| 12 | Dorothy explained that they had n't given her any money ; she was here as a reporter for a journal whose name they knew ; her membership of the feminist abortion campaign to which PopCon had just made a large grant was irrelevant to the present discussion ; she was just doing her job . |
| 13 | Jonadab confirmed that the shepherd was not one for strong drink and was beginning to think that George had possibly made a good choice , when the old farmer and his wife came back along the line . |
| 14 | As an artist , he had always made an adequate living , and Willises , carefully packed in stiff board and oiled paper , were despatched — since a number of his patrons were in the Merchant Navy — to ports all over the world for collection . |
| 15 | It was n't that she had ever made a conscious decision to play the helpless female ; she just always looked as though she was in constant need of care and attention , and over the years she had found that it was far easier to allow people to think what they liked , because whenever she tried to be assertive , or explain that she was really quite competent , no one ever believed her . |
| 16 | The tribunal decided that Customs had unreasonably made a mistaken inference that the wife 's business was separate to avoid a tax liability . |
| 17 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 18 | He had been riding in front of Chuck and his father , watching with admiration the erect , narrow-backed figure of Jacques Devraux jogging easily at the head of the column ; the fierce-eyed Frenchman had quickly made a deep impression on Joseph 's fifteen-year-old mind and he was trying to hold his own shoulders high and square in the same fashion . |
| 19 | The kind of guy , thought Bernice , who had probably made a lovely baby but would be an embarrassing boyfriend . |
| 20 | People who had gone overseas had probably made a wise choice and were likely to be doing better than they could have done at home , so the government felt it had done enough for them already . |
| 21 | Here she was recognising the client 's right to choose what help was acceptable , and she had also made a careful assessment of the situation at that time . |
| 22 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 23 | The friar had even made a vain plea to Cranston to have the sentence commuted but the coroner had sorrowfully shaken his head . |
| 24 | She had simply made a mental note to thank her , popped it into the in-tray on her desk and left the photograph tucked in a corner of her blotter . |
| 25 | The United Kingdom government , however , reacting to the widespread criticism of the subcommittee 's proposals , had then made a last attempt to secure concessions towards increased democratization in post-1997 Hong Kong . |
| 26 | Barwick had earlier made a spectacular start to this day , opening up with three straight birdies . |
| 27 | The Minister was pictured beaming over his in-laws ' garden gate with the children about whom he had earlier made a plaintive ‘ keep them out of it ’ appeal . |
| 28 | The Irish Prime Minister had evidently made a personal approach to his compatriot , the Chairman of United Motors , Tom O'Reilly , pleading for more American investment to help the ‘ auld counthrie ’ . |
| 29 | Faldo ticked a four on the 18th , written down by his playing partner Bernhard Langer , when he had actually made a five . |
| 30 | A wheelwright at marriage , he had subsequently made a successful career in the building trade , and by the 1830s was rated on no fewer than six houses in Gore Hedge — almost a third of the street . |