1.   An official approach has been made but the hostages are unlikely to be released.

2.   It was clear to land so we made our approach.

3.   This would entail making approaches, reversing the role she had assumed throughout the years with Claire.

4.   When the host leaves the nest, the cuckoo makes its approach in a long, silent hawk-like glide.

5.   She would recognise him when he made his approach, would know he had been behaving deviously but he would be straight into devious matters anyway.

6.   There must be some way she could make an approach without incurring too great a risk of rejection.

7.   Two alternative approaches have been made to the question of the patent protection of inventions which include a computer program.

8.   Proud Somervillians in trouble are bad at making direct approaches.

9.   But he stressed that no formal approach had been made for the former football ground.