Example sentences of "had made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other regimes had made tentative steps towards amelioration ; what distinguished the Emperor 's plan from the preceding ones was its all-over view of the problem — urbanization based on urban planning . |
| 2 | Paisley and I issued a joint statement spelling out that the authorities had made inaccurate claims about the shooting and referred to the information in the forensic report . |
| 3 | The government had made serious proposals during 1988 about reforming the graduate assignment system because of its glaring inefficiencies . |
| 4 | Certainly the boards we studied in more depth had made serious efforts to understand their duties and responsibilities . |
| 5 | The Authority was less successful in its attempt to ensure that disciplinary proceedings were brought against a detective superintendent , whose early retirement from the Metropolitan Police in 1989 meant that he avoided questions about his links with drug smuggling and criminal gangs , queries that had arisen after a World in Action television programme which had made serious allegations about corruption in the London police . |
| 6 | The women had made great play with brooms and buckets , sweeping the pavement around the policeman 's feet till he was forced to jump over them to avoid being floored . |
| 7 | Already it had made great play of how it had saved certain famous churches from its own bulldozers by moving them out of the path of destruction . |
| 8 | In his letter Prawiro said that Indonesia had made great efforts to forge a relationship with the Netherlands after " an exceedingly painful historical past resulting from centuries of inhuman colonial subjugation " . |
| 9 | She had made great capital out of a fortnight 's bus tour to Lake Garda . |
| 10 | Despite the market uncertainties and many other problems there were a number who had made great strides and it seemed that many would succeed . |
| 11 | Magnus , said Pinchbeck , had made great strides under his predecessor , Rick Haythornthwaite , developing the asset management system which has resulted in greater teamwork and enhanced empowerment of the individual . |
| 12 | The CNAA , he and others believed , had made great progress in improving the standards of business studies , and had begun to do the same for management studies , but ‘ the job of improving management studies has hardly begun . |
| 13 | David had made great friends with them because they would come into his apartment at night and he would sing them songs and things . |
| 14 | The industry 's many critics had made great demands and threatened many a crisis but they had not halted the growth of the movies as mass entertainment . |
| 15 | While I was in the Gulf , one of our teachers vanished temporarily after a call to a colleague in which he had made disparaging remarks about members of the local royal family . |
| 16 | He had made various bids at drawing her out , to no avail ; now he felt in sympathetic collusion — thus had he survived his own schooldays . |
| 17 | These results were backed by solid gains at local elections and it became clear that the Nationalists had made substantial inroads into the Labour vote , at any rate between general elections . |
| 18 | In mid-October a breakthrough seemed imminent after senior trade officials from Canada , the EC , Japan and the USA , meeting in Ontario on Oct. 17-18 , claimed that they had made substantial progress in resolving the deadlock ( responsible for the suspension of an earlier round of talks between US and EC officials in Brussels on Oct. 11-12 ) . |
| 19 | Even his great friend and business partner in the Second Dominion , Hebbert Nuits-St-Georges , called Peccable by those who knew him well , a merchant who had made substantial profit from the superstitious and the woebegone in the Second Dominion , regularly remarked that the order of Yzordderrex was less stable by the day , and he would soon take his family out of the city , indeed out of the Dominion entirely , and find a new home where he would not have to smell burning bodies when he opened his windows in the morning . |
| 20 | During the last working session of the UNCLOS , arrangements were made to give guaranteed access to those countries and companies which had made substantial investments in deep-seabed mining in the past . |
| 21 | Both Edward I and Edward II had made substantial use of the traditional feudal levy for raising an army , summoning all tenants-in-chief of the crown to serve unpaid with a set quota of men for forty days . |
| 22 | Her parents had had the sense to realise how unhappy she was , and had made alternative arrangements . |
| 23 | He mentioned oil , chemicals , engineering and electrical engineering , all of which had made solid progress . |
| 24 | The previous day the United States had suspended US$94,900,000 in aid , alleging that Peru had made insufficient efforts to control drug trafficking . |
| 25 | The determination or disposal is treated as a transfer of value by the beneficiary and the rate of tax payable is arrived at by reference to the total of it and any previous chargeable transfers by him unless the determination or disposal took place before 10/12/74 when , in implement of the undertaking in the White Paper ( Cmnd 5705 ) that in these circumstances any tax chargeable would be no greater than that which would be due if the trust were an individual who had made chargeable gifts equal to the capital becoming chargeable , the rate is arrived at by reference solely to the total of the determinations or disposals which have taken place in the trust since 25/3/74 , if by so doing the amount of tax payable would be reduced . |
| 26 | An FPÖ federal deputy , Helmut Weiss , was in October 1989 forbidden by the FPÖ chair , Haider , to take up his seat in the Nationalrat and was also obliged to give up his seat in the Bundesrat , after he had made controversial statements about the Nazi era . |
| 27 | Gen. Lebed had made controversial statements in July on the role of Russia 's armed forces outside the Russian Federation [ see p. 39019 ] . |
| 28 | At an earlier hearing the court heard that the police had made unsuccessful attempts to serve the complaint . |
| 29 | In Lonrho plc v. Fayed the facts which the court was required to assume to be true were that the defendants had made fraudulent misrepresentations about themselves to the Secretary of State in order to influence him not to refer their bid for H.F. Co. to the Monopolies and Mergers Commission . |
| 30 | After several European countries had made similar pledges , the European Community declared at the end of February a 1995 ban on production of all five " fully-halogenated " CFCs listed under the Protocol , together with the industrial solvents carbon tetrachloride and methyl chloroform , and halons , used in fire extinguishers . |