Example sentences of "it made a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | His prestige stood high , and it made a sensation when he denounced the CPP for corruption and waste . |
| 32 | On few occasions has it shown less moral scruple than when it made a deal with Brezhnev to dispose of the Soviet gold . |
| 33 | This proved nothing in itself , but it made a mockery of the Commission 's repeated claims to be particularly scientific in its approach . |
| 34 | It made a mockery of Bryan Gould 's claims that up to 100 Labour MPs supported him . |
| 35 | ‘ It made a mockery of the fire service , ’ said the local assistant fire chief , but most people took the scene in good humour , as it was intended . |
| 36 | I made a face at my face and it made a face back at me . |
| 37 | It made a star out of Birmingham 's Janice Nicholls who , when she liked a record , said : ‘ Oi 'll give it foive ’ in a Brummy twang . |
| 38 | She passed the streamer to another woman who did the same and each woman who received it made a statement of her sorrow , culminating with a young woman who spoke , with tears running down her face , of her fears for her children . |
| 39 | That it should happen here , it made a cage inside a cage . |
| 40 | Major C R Anson of Anson Airways promised to buy the prototype if it made a record flight to Australia where it would be operated . |
| 41 | In both these situations , the buyer is assured of a return of the original price plus interest and is not taking any significantly greater risk than if it made a loan secured on the property concerned . |
| 42 | It would n't have made any difference to my daughter 's well being , but it made a hell of a difference to her erm her social standing . |
| 43 | Fortunately it did n't go off , but it made a hell of a mess , and I came down in a shell-hole just outside our wire . ’ |
| 44 | It made a loss last year of £775,000 on sales of £3.2m , following a loss the previous years of £2.6m on sales of £4.5m . |
| 45 | I remind the Opposition that in those days , when British Airways was still in state ownership , it made a loss of £140 million before tax . |
| 46 | It made a lot of sense . |
| 47 | It made a lot of sense . |
| 48 | In monetary terms it made a lot more sense to extend episode numbers within a serial , thereby getting more television hours with fewer changes in location . |
| 49 | It made a lot of noise for its size , and there was no obvious way of stopping it . |
| 50 | Now whether it made a lot of difference or no , I could n't tell you , but they believed it er the set of tools they had were the best in the yard , you know , so obviously they took a wee bit of pride in them and looked after them . |
| 51 | It was going very fast and it made a lot of noise . |
| 52 | Eleanor , ’ she said again , as she began to realise that it made a lot of sense . |
| 53 | For four days the battalion suffered continuous attacks from apparently limitless numbers , during which it made a fighting withdrawal of 10 miles . |
| 54 | Although the Committee recommended that the BBC should not accept advertising on its television channels on the grounds that it would not be a satisfactory long-term solution to the impending restructuring of broadcasting , it made a number of significant proposals which would have the effect of recreating broadcasting as a market of consumers and producers . |
| 55 | The Company did very well despite this attitude to its imports ; in the 1660s it made a number of loans to the government , amounting altogether to £130,000 , and in the 1680s it regularly paid 10,000 guineas a year , which came to about 1 per cent of the King 's total revenue . |
| 56 | While it made a number of positive points , the commission was nonetheless fairly critical in its assessment of the operation of the Gallery . |
| 57 | On the same day , the United States also entered into a Memorandum of Assurance with Israel in which it made a number of more specific undertakings directed towards preserving the security of Israel in the event of a violation of the Peace Treaty . |
| 58 | It made a number of recommendations for a more disciplined and concerted pre-trial regime , suggesting that a defendant should be given credit for a guilty plea , particularly where there is saving of public expenditure and time , and that there should be a more vigorous policy on credit for pleas of guilty either by way of reduction of length of custodial sentence or the passing of some alternative to custody . |