Example sentences of "make very [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since [ J. ] has made very little development progress since the accident he has no potential to return to a healthy life and thus intensive care would not only be cruel but would artificially prolong his vegetative state . |
| 2 | His objection to these studies was that the passages these investigators used made very little sense unless subjects did have some prior knowledge of their content . |
| 3 | The Moguls can have made very little impression on the total population however . |
| 4 | The grave doubts that had been cast upon the validity of marginal productivity theory in the late 1930s-doubts which Keynes himself had come to share , albeit reluctantly — had made very little impression on the literature . |
| 5 | Much relevant research has gone on since then , but it seems to have made very little impact upon the public debate about the ageing of British society . |
| 6 | Mr Wright is an accomplished narrative historian and has made very good use of the few surviving scraps of contemporary , or nearly contemporary , accounts written by members of the various civilisations . |
| 7 | These have made very nice baby coats in white and one of them has actually sold ! |
| 8 | IBM 's personal computers business may be enormous , but it has never made very much money , and it is now more like a millstone than an asset . |
| 9 | If the mechanism made us faint , or vomit , or have a heart attack , then as cavemen we would have made very easy prey every time we encountered an animal we feared . |
| 10 | It is a point of some general importance arising under a new statute which has made very substantial changes in the law relating to contracts for the sale of land . |
| 11 | They have both made very substantial contributions to the progress of the Group and we will miss their sound advice . |
| 12 | But I would n't be chairman of the bank if I 'd made very many mistakes . |
| 13 | ‘ We have made very consistent efforts to brand Phaidon books over the last few years , putting the Phaidon name on the front and back of all our books as a brand image of quality , ’ he said . |
| 14 | As the right hon. Gentleman knows , we have made very large contributions to the development agencies , and we shall continue to do so . |
| 15 | O'Leary and Deane both made very significant impacts . |
| 16 | The chaotic nature of the motion suggests that in any neighbourhood of any r-value there will be many ( countably many ) r-values for which this occurs , though the different homoclinic orbits involved will happen only after the unstable manifold has made very different sequences of passes through the return plane . |
| 17 | ‘ I do n't accept that , as I 've made very bad use of my experience ! |
| 18 | In all cases where a vessel which is covered under a Policy which is subject to the Speedboat Clause and such a claim is made very careful consideration should be given to the mooring area . |
| 19 | Naturally no reasonable person would wish to hold him accountable for what he wrote , but certain passages nevertheless made very disturbing reading . ’ |
| 20 | She has since toured extensively in the USA and parts of Europe , but has made very few appearances in these islands . |
| 21 | The cost saving in the preventative work , er , fall falls later on in the system , and that might not even accrue back to local government , and that 's the problem and I think if there was some specific erm , government grants that enabled local authorities to really get to grips with the preventative elements and could should that , that reduced overall government spending on the other end , on the impact end , I mean , I think we would be , we would be sort of making very much headway , but there does n't seem to be that specific initiative at this particular stage . |
| 22 | ‘ You 're not making very much sense , I can tell you that . ’ |
| 23 | There are times when people are in need , and that 's fine , but the problem in this parish is not the people in need not being supplied , the problem is that people are , are simply receiving what they wish to receive and not actually making very much contribution . |
| 24 | I think that what we have to decide today , or one of the things that needs to be decided is , is the new settlement in the longer term a sensible answer given that all the all the various considerations , and that erm arguing about residual numbers , here or there has to be taken in the much longer context , I think that 's what all I would like the to say at the moment on on new settlement erm because of the situation I am in of not being able to er say too much in detail about it , I sha n't be making very many contributions to this particular debate . |
| 25 | Aith lifeboat had been making very good progress towards the scene , in extremely bad weather conditions , but was recalled on hearing that the survivor had been rescued . |
| 26 | He moved warily through the forest , making very little sound . |
| 27 | Alexander Thorn , formerly Professor of Engineering at Oxford , had been visiting stone circles since the 1930s making very accurate surveys . |
| 28 | Critics of Townsend argue that this is a spurious claim inasmuch as it depends on Townsend making very dubious judgements about what the social needs are of which people might be ‘ deprived ’ . |
| 29 | But I 'm also making very strong statements lyrically and this is very worrying to authoritarian figures . |
| 30 | This involves making very broad brush assumptions about how costs can be allocated to broadly defined client groups . |