Example sentences of "make a [adj] bid [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stephen Dundas , Scotland 's first winner since Reid Jack in 1957 , will make a lively bid to keep the title , and there 'll be nine National champions in all in the line-up , among them Thomas Himmel , of Germany , Nicolas Joakimides , from France , and good young Spaniard , Alvaro Prat . |
| 2 | But Beaumont is already confident that the eight-year-old will make a bold bid to pull off the feat in 12 months ' time . |
| 3 | Despite intense competition from American manufacturers , Falcon Jet Corporation made a successful bid to provide the United States Coast Guard ( USCG ) with a Medium Range Surveillance ( MRS ) aircraft to be known as the HU-25A , a derivative of the Falcon 20G . |
| 4 | In September 1977 the second wave of terrorism by the Baader-Meinhof gang reached its grisly climax : the businessman Hans-Martin Schleyer was kidnapped and murdered ; Palestinian and German terrorists made a vain bid to get Baader and others released from prison , by hijacking a Lufthansa airliner ; and when German police forcibly put an end to the hijack Baader and his colleagues committed suicide . |
| 5 | EVERTON boss Howard Kendall last night made a late bid to sign Luton striker Mick Harford . |
| 6 | An East German — unwisely , perhaps , in view of the easy access through the front door — made a desperate bid to scramble over the embassy railings . |
| 7 | Knox made a desperate bid to get in front at the last corner but Martin held his line and emerged the winner . |
| 8 | FIREMEN made a desperate bid to revive a pet bird following a shed fire which spread to an aviary . |
| 9 | She made a valiant bid to shrug away from him , but it made no difference . |
| 10 | A JEWISH group that helped about 80 Bosnian mostly Muslim refugees fly to Israel yesterday says the Palestine Liberation Organisation made a last-minute bid to prevent the flight because it did not want Israel to look good . |
| 11 | In 1961 Union Minière made a naked bid to split off Katanga from the rest of Zaire . |
| 12 | Sheffield United making a strong bid to escape the jaws of relegation , started well in their match against Aston Villa , a team also in need of points . |
| 13 | A former RAF pilot is making a last-minute bid to save Britain 's last flying Vulcan bomber . |
| 14 | SPURS are preparing to make a fresh bid to sign striker Teddy Sheringham from Nottingham Forest . |