Example sentences of "made a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One symptom of the pope 's embarrassment is that for the first and last time he made a concession to Anselm on the subject of the primacy of Canterbury , which we must deal with later . |
| 2 | Two weeks before the transfer deadline , and in a desperate bid to clinch Manchester United 's first Championship in 25 years , Ferguson made a call to David Pleat at Luton , where Chelsea striker Harford was playing at the time . |
| 3 | I do n't think she did because she made a choice to be next to , she wanted to find out . |
| 4 | Lothar , in a last bid to shore up his power in western Francia , made a foray to the Seine . |
| 5 | Police are investigating claims that linesman Ray Bowden made a V-sign to the crowd in last week 's Preston v Shrewsbury game . |
| 6 | And it made a change to be told before and not after the job that a cow was a kicker . |
| 7 | At the conference , the Director of the National Museum in Phnom Penh , Pich Keo , asked Unesco to pass information on stolen property to Interpol and the International Council of Museums , and made a plea to museum directors to research the provenance of objects in their collections , and to return those illegally exported from Cambodia . |
| 8 | She made a plea to councillors representing the area to stick by their voters and ensure buses continue to serve the estate . |
| 9 | As a token of our love and thanks Father Murray made a presentation to Anne on behalf of all the pilgrims |
| 10 | One of the hospitals in Grampian had spare capacity in radiology and made a presentation to the fundholding group . |
| 11 | Those are not my words , those are the words of Mister , who made a presentation to Social Services on behalf of the Trust . |
| 12 | By 1685 , although more established and better organized , the Garden was proving a heavy expense for the Company , which made a proposition to Mr Watts . |
| 13 | Du Camp in one of his books — I forget which , there were always so many — made a reference to the malign effect on man of too much solitude , he called it a false counsellor who nurses at her breasts the twin infants of Egotism and Vanity . |
| 14 | I also made a promise to myself that when I got picked again for a major championship I would progress beyond the first round . |
| 15 | So , I made a promise to myself that I 'd never be late with any deadlines . |
| 16 | Freddie rubbed his hands together and made a sign to his waiting friends . |
| 17 | Then he made a sign to Sikes to tell Nancy to leave the room . |
| 18 | The following evening ( that was three expensive dinners in a row , which made a contrast to Georg 's grudging once a month treat at the cinema ) she had insisted that this time they talk about him . |
| 19 | Quark Inc chairman , Tim Gill , has come to Quorum 's defence , dismissing Apple 's position as incorrect and ill-considered : in a letter he wrote to Quorum he adds that Quorum made a port to Unix feasible for him . |
| 20 | Approximately one-third of County libraries and one-quarter of both Inner London and Metropolitan authorities felt that their LGTB made a contribution to their training . |
| 21 | They both made a contribution to the village and the school , but sadly of late these have been demolished , so shrinking village life . |
| 22 | The Independent Companies were therefore forced into a more passive role which nevertheless made a contribution to the main forces ' campaigns . |
| 23 | The book disappoints , however , by its limited use of the large number of books written by or about Canadians in the two World Wars , in which that country made a contribution to Allied arms out of all proportion to her population . |
| 24 | ‘ I was spending money creatively ; I made a contribution to the family restaurant market , which is still in place , and which enabled people to have a very good value meal in enjoyable surroundings , for less money . |
| 25 | In essence the result of this change was to ensure that when a contractor made a payment to a sub-contractor holding a tax certificate issued by the Inland Revenue , the sub-contractor could be paid in full . |
| 26 | On receiving confirmation of his decision from the commander , the pilot made a turn to the left and lined up the aircraft for an approach to the selected field . |
| 27 | Vuk 's next project was a Serbian dictionary , and to help him in collecting words to include in it he made a journey to Serbia in 1816 on his way back to Vienna , calling on his old friend the archimandrite Lukian Mušički in the monastery at Šišatovac in the Fruška Gora . |
| 28 | In 1279 the purely clerical assemblies of both provinces made a grant to the king towards the cost of the Welsh wars , but again only after there had been discussion in diocesan assemblies . |
| 29 | Supposing the Government made a grant to starving nations of £1,000 million on condition that they bought food from us to that value , what would be the effect ? |
| 30 | When Cnut 's henchman Tofi the Proud made a grant to Waltham an oral declaration seems to have been followed by the donor girding his sword round the image on a crucifix . |