Example sentences of "made [adj] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brian Pearse FCIB , Deputy Chairman , responded and made strong reference to the need for a return to high standards of banking education . |
| 2 | Edinburgh district council estimated the cost of clearing the backlog at £25.5 million and we made that allocation to it over a two-year period . |
| 3 | But the judge , wrongly in our judgment , seized the reins , and made unnecessary reference to the possibility of the protection of professional privilege . |
| 4 | It looked very different to a nautical chart and made little sense to me , but I gradually deciphered some of the meaning from its weird markings . |
| 5 | Most of the conversation at meal times made little sense to her . |
| 6 | The Doctor 's conversation made little sense to Blake . |
| 7 | County cricket made little concession to spectators . |
| 8 | At the same time Fastolf s attitude to the practicalities of war reflect a hardheadedness which was essentially of this world : the plan which he drew up in 1435 favouring a ‘ tough ’ approach to the war made little concession to romantic ideas of chivalry which would influence a knight 's conduct in war . |
| 9 | InterCity 's dedicated Victoria-Gatwick Express push-pull service launched in 1984 made little difference to domestic services , employing ex-LMR Mark 2f coaches formed into trailer sets with a 1959-type 2-HAP driving trailer converted to a driving van at one end , and a Class 73 locomotive at the other . |
| 10 | For illiterate and landless serfs and peasants the language of their landlord made little difference to their lives . |
| 11 | WOBBLER : Bruce Grobbelaar 's return made little difference to Liverpool 's leaking defence . |
| 12 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 13 | Table 4.2 , which illustrates this , also shows that the state of the local labour market made little difference to the proportion regarding their first jobs as " stop-gap " . |
| 14 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the rates except when the subset of deaths due to immaturity was adjusted for birth weight . |
| 15 | Adjustment for risk factors made little difference to the mortality rates except when birth weight was included in the adjustment for the deaths due to immaturity . |
| 16 | Adjustment for risk factors known before the start of labour made little difference to perinatal mortality rates , but such differences that occurred were in the expected direction . |
| 17 | It made little difference to the coal industry which continued to serve both . |
| 18 | Strategically , the Guadalajara débâcle made little difference to either side . |
| 19 | Strocchi et al did not enumerate viable sulphate reducing bacteria in their study , and the addition of 20 mM sulphate to non-methanogenic faecal slurries made little difference to sulphide production , indicating an absence of viable sulphate reducers . |
| 20 | It may have rained for hours , but it made little difference to the River Lambourn . |
| 21 | A purely defensive strategy made little appeal to Pitt and he now eagerly supported a plan devised by Anson to carry the war into enemy waters . |
| 22 | The introduction to this chapter made specific reference to the need for school management to plan the school 's path through the changing environment . |
| 23 | Today many people reject the story of the flood and yet the Lord Jesus Christ made specific reference to it when speaking of His promised return . |
| 24 | These chapters made extensive reference to how marketing intelligence ( or knowledge ) could be built up . |
| 25 | This sort of militarism made professional sense to many medics because of its connection with their own reformulated medical discourse . |
| 26 | The computer operator in the station made another call to the ambulance service telling them that the situation was very serious and asking for the estimated time of arrival of the ambulance . |
| 27 | Never having been one to look an unguarded telephone in the mouth , I made another call to the number on the Exhilarator brochure I 'd taken from Salome 's case . |
| 28 | Unusually , the policy can be identified with a particular minister : Duncan Sandys ( who later made another contribution to planning with the promotion of the Civic Trust and the Civic Amenities Act ) . |
| 29 | He made another foray to the bar and was back in quick time with another of the same . |
| 30 | As the text emerged from the drafting committee , the English text , but not the French text , of Article 1 made express reference to ‘ discovery ’ ; a request was not to be used for the purpose of obtaining discovery between the parties before the trial . |