Example sentences of "have made some [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I see a set of conclusions that achieve almost everything that was demanded at that time and I am grateful to everybody concerned who 's actually sat down and actually really thought about what we 're trying to do and everybody has made some compromise here and I shall certainly support this amendment and I shall make the compromise because the one thing in here that I thought was necessary that is n't there is the statement that there will be a head of centre and having actually worked in a project , head of sorry , head of project and having actually worked in a situation where I was a joint manager erm in the long run I think people will see the the wisdom of of a single head of project . |
| 2 | The smooth pillars which support it in the centre have capitals of a style that has made some art historians suppose that they may originally have come from the Roman villa or palace presumed to have existed on this site in the fourth century . |
| 3 | His Mother tells me that he is of a mechanical turn , and I know that he has made some progress in mathematics . |
| 4 | After having spent over $2 billion , the US Department of Defense has made some progress toward that goal . |
| 5 | The LDDC has taken control of the Docklands Light Railway from London Underground and has made some progress . |
| 6 | The ‘ Human Resource ’ concept of man-power as the central profit-generating asset of any organisation has made some progress over the past twenty years . |
| 7 | On the North East outcrops , Graeme Livingstone has made some second ascents . |
| 8 | Perhaps the most well-known experiment in work organisation is the Volvo car assembly plant at Kalmar in Sweden where the company has made some attempt to break away from the traditional mass-production assembly line . |
| 9 | I believe he is half aware of his problem and has made some effort to solve it by forcing himself to concentrate on what he is told to read . |
| 10 | The conclusion to be drawn from this chapter is clearly a somewhat negative one : the action project has made some difference to certain kinds of dementia sufferer , but overall its impact has been negligible . |
| 11 | Kevin Seymour has made some detail changes himself , but the owner is good with his hands and , in many places , it is very difficult to differentiate between modification and original joiner work . |
| 12 | The Torts ( Interference with Goods ) Act 1977 has made some simplification by abolishing one head of liability but it is only a piecemeal attempt to deal with certain deficiencies in the common law and is in no way a code governing interference with goods . |
| 13 | It was shortly before the time Luke usually arrived on Fridays , and up until today she would have made some excuse to Florian , but reviviscent pride demanded a gesture . |
| 14 | A statute passed to remedy what is perceived by Parliament to be a defect in the existing law may in actual operation turn out to have injurious consequences that Parliament did not anticipate at the time the statute was passed ; if it had , it would have made some provision in the Act in order to prevent them . |
| 15 | Nonni should have answered , of course , that they stayed cleaner longer , which would have made some kind of sense to my aunts . |
| 16 | Fran must have made some noise , some movement , some tiny betraying gesture , because he swung round , his face hardening when he saw her in the doorway . |
| 17 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 18 | He might well have made some bargain with the Plantagenet — after all , this Edward owed something , for it was here , to Dunbar Castle , that his father , Edward the Second , had fled for refuge after the disaster of Bannockburn when Patrick , as a young man , had received him kindly and provided him passage by sea to England . |
| 19 | This punctuation would have made some difference to the reader 's processing of the sentence ; [ 14 ] in particular would have made the " click " seem a matter of importance and surprise in its own right , dividing the reader 's attention between the two events , instead of making him see them as integral parts of a whole . |
| 20 | ‘ But I 'm bound to say that in your position I think I should have made some enquiry into his bona fides . |
| 21 | We 'd be like strangers and I could n't bear that , but at least I could have made some redress . ’ |
| 22 | This proposal aroused very considerable opposition from many of the institutions concerned and NAB itself made a reasoned case for some amendment , which appears to have made some impact . |
| 23 | You 've made some provision for your children it 's written in absolute trust for their benefit . |
| 24 | We 've made some water bridges in a clay which I have to put in the kiln on Monday , . |
| 25 | I note that you 've made some headway towards solving things on the technical front . |
| 26 | ‘ We 've made some progress , ’ Dougal pointed out . |
| 27 | Well , we 've made some progress in some areas , but not as much as I would 've liked , although I intend to keep working at it . |
| 28 | We 've made some progress towards establishing the criteria which we should set out in our policy , and the mechanisms needed to control that policy . |
| 29 | I 've made some coffee . ’ |
| 30 | The children themselves appeared , and after a second summer spent playing at the M's farm , and becoming ‘ socialised ’ by contact with that family , it seemed they had made some progress . |