Example sentences of "made [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have made few attempts in this chapter to give the first references to ideas or discoveries . |
| 2 | During my term as manager I have made few friends and my enemies stalk the boardroom in ever increasing numbers . |
| 3 | The country has made few preparations for civil defence . |
| 4 | The Soviet Union had made few preparations for occupation of north Korea in August 1945 . |
| 5 | He has made few speeches and passed no Bills . |
| 6 | The builder should be summoned to scrutinize the small growth on the pantry 's outer wall , and her husband had informed her that the bank had made another balls-up and requested her to deal with it . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't actually fixed a time when I will return , it just depends when I am made some offers . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I 've made some contacts that I can follow up over the next couple of weeks . |
| 9 | It too has made some disposals of companies during the year , has reduced the number of operating subsidiaries by amalgamation and has raised the pro-file of its internal audit team . |
| 10 | He had already made some notes about the battle , and about the Gruagach besieging Tara — ; |
| 11 | Well I have made some notes since you j can I just walk down and get them I want this to happen I made some notes , here . |
| 12 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 13 | The New Party made some members when they started , but when they turned themselves into the Fascist Party er they they rid of themselves of many of these er New Party peop , was in the New Party you know . |
| 14 | In that time I had made some friends , gained much self-confidence , and finally lost my hatred of the Reeds . |
| 15 | Would at least the Noble Baroness be prepared to have a look at that what appears to be , and I have made some investigations , a somewhat distressing situation . |
| 16 | None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case . |
| 17 | Her mother had made some scones and pies in her afternoon leisure and picked some flowers in case the child came back in need of cheering up , so they ate some supper and then went out to the headland . |
| 18 | Eventually he wrote ‘ I am in such a stew over Primavera that I have made some sketches myself . |
| 19 | Having made some observations about the internal culture of higher education — both that of the academic community and that of the student experience — we are now in a position to say how , if at all , the internal culture bears on the wider cultural relationship . |
| 20 | Well , I 'd like to do , that we do do that , I mean , we have I think made some submissions in the past , but I think it 's now quite clear that the fears that we 've expressed in this committee over the years , are well founded , and we 've got to the point , where the whole er project for the special needs people , is is going is going to be very vulnerable . |
| 21 | But he believed that MacDonald had made some soundings in a coalition direction , and in a speech at Hull on 19 July he went out of his way to reject ‘ the idea that a national government such as existed during the war should be set up in the present difficulties ’ . |
| 22 | The Secretary of State therefore made some changes which he described as clarifying and amplifying the Council 's recommendations . |
| 23 | That is why we have made some changes to the business structure and appointed business development executives to lead a new thrust in business development . |
| 24 | We 'd just feel happier if we 'd thought you 'd made some provisions for the future . ’ |
| 25 | Mr Laurie Mulrine , Darlington 's head of development control , said the car parking congestion around County Durham 's principal hospital had made some roads a deathtrap for pedestrians . |
| 26 | In a short statement in the House of Commons on Monday , John MacGregor , a junior industry minister , said that the government has made some purchases and is planning others . |
| 27 | The grave is of the late sixth century , but the krater was probably made some decades earlier , most likely in Laconia though some argue for a South Italian colony . |
| 28 | It is this that has made some Americans say that , if Iraq agreed to withdraw from Kuwait , it must abandon its tanks and other heavy equipment . |
| 29 | I always donate to these organisations and have benefited to the extent that organisations like THT , Body Positive and LAGER have made the general public aware of the infection and have made some employers take it into account . |
| 30 | Fears about the economy also made some employers and politicians , as we shall see , a little more receptive to economic theories and proposals which promised to diminish the ill-effects of the swings of the trade cycle . |