Example sentences of "make a great [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The advent of the private car has made a greater percentage of the population mobile , we can reach many different areas today by private car . |
| 2 | It may be that he had missed his metier , and that he would have made a greater mark had he gone into politics . |
| 3 | During the sixth century , craftsmen were increasingly operating from workshops , employed by those who had made a greater success in the agricultural way of life and were able to support a greater number of specialists and farmworkers . |
| 4 | Indeed , it could be argued that the collective influence of the processes discussed in this chapter have made a greater impact on the cities and those living within them than has inner-city policy . |
| 5 | In all cases the necessity of balancing professional and academic requirements has been recognised , with the inexorable move toward a ‘ graduate ’ profession being accepted responsibly , though more slowly than for similar professions : ‘ It is a matter for concern that , compared with other professions surveying has not made a greater impact upon university life and thought in general ’ ( Wells Report , 1960 ) . |
| 6 | We concur with the DCSLs who felt that Major award schools had put more thinking into their documentation and that the larger funding had made a greater impact on provision , management and the physical organisation and appearance of the library . |
| 7 | Even so , it may be doubted that he would have made a greater impact upon the course of history . |
| 8 | Despite the fanfare which greeted the launch of the Air 180 last year , the subsequent arrival of the Air Huarache had made a greater impression on our testers , who have found it to be both innovative and effective . |
| 9 | I think er , we need to er , look at this issue of carers far more rigorously , and I 'm very sad that the government , having made a great play about back to basics and er , encouraging family values , erm , are not in fact prepared er , to do something to er , alleviate unemployment by encouraging employers to make adequate provision to ensure that people with dependants can actually work . |
| 10 | He brings with him his radio and prepares for — his — match with Lierse listening to BBC hoping for Leeds goals … and after the Wembley match he went straigth to Batty for changing shirts — i think he said that for the couple of last minutes that was the main thing — not that he had made a great goal or Norway getting a draw . |
| 11 | The secondary teachers ' unions , particularly the Joint Four , had made a great outcry about the exodus of the grammar school teachers from the profession . |
| 12 | In reality , no concatenation of highly talented individuals ever made a great film . |
| 13 | ‘ Anne — Miss Miggs , ’ began Christine breathlessly , ‘ we 've made a great discovery ! |
| 14 | Michael , when he was at s When he was at school , he won a scholarship to university , when he got to the university he said as if he 'd made a great discovery . |
| 15 | The new team members have already made a great dent on the company 's lunch budget , by wining and dining garden centre owners and agricultural merchants . |
| 16 | He had made a great reputation in Berlin between the wars . |
| 17 | Long before we arrived , Herr Wendling had made a great reputation for him and has now introduced him to all his friends . |
| 18 | ‘ I would have made a great secretary , I love organising things . |
| 19 | The Mill Hill priests who started Sasse in 1939 have made a great contribution to the national life of this young African country . |
| 20 | This work has made a great contribution to our understanding of the subject , although the structural diversity of port wine stains confounds the best attempts at mathematical modelling and there is no substitute for good clinical assessments and comparisons of different laser systems . |
| 21 | He has made a great contribution to anchoring the art of architecture to real life , real science and real modernity … |
| 22 | Your children will inherit a world in which Basil 's influence has made a great contribution . |
| 23 | It 's made a great thoroughfare in the dining area and broken the dining area up a bit . |
| 24 | Pendle Consultants Ltd , the Yorkshire-based training and recruitment specialists , have made a great success of recruiting inexperienced staff after putting them through an unorthodox interview procedure , designed to reveal personal strengths and weaknesses of potential sales personnel , rather than stressing their previous experience . |
| 25 | but I mean other than that , I , I , I 'd like to be dead cautious about that , I , I still think it 's early days , I know we 've made a great success , but it 's early days . |
| 26 | In the leader column last week , on the same day Young Group 's shares were suspended , the newspaper felt sufficiently confident of Mr Young 's expertise to write : ‘ He is a man who has until recently made a great success of his business and it would be sad for the North-East if he did not continue to have a part to play . ’ |
| 27 | Our working relationship , I am sure , would be made a great deal easier . ’ |
| 28 | In summary then , the action project appears not to have made a great deal of difference to people 's receipt of other services , except that it has probably kept some sufferers away from day care and has increased home help hours for its own clients ( and probably allayed the need for home help among other clients ) . |
| 29 | Luckily in all three of the situations outlined above , the carers have eventually discovered that support for them is available and this has made a great deal of difference to their lives . |
| 30 | But most certainly the road to the latter , with its decadence and exploitation , has been made a great deal smoother , shorter and more popular by the compromise and self-interest of the clerics and assorted fellow travellers of the so-called ‘ new morality ’ school . |