Example sentences of "[conj] made [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four SSDs either co-operated with the housing authority to provide interim accommodation or made provision out of their own capital budget . |
| 2 | ( iv ) In proof-reading any work produced on a word processor , pupils may have access to a computer spelling checker. ( v ) Pupils should be encouraged to use whatever presentational devices are appropriate for a given piece of work — particularly work that is to be displayed or made public . |
| 3 | With sufficient funds to travel to many active libraries , it enables the British Library Information Officer for User Education to make more personal contact , and thus frequently acquire information that would otherwise not be volunteered or made public . |
| 4 | The massive forgetting of dreams can be explained in terms of the strait-jacket of a single thought-stream preventing the formation of any such intention , or dream events from being brought into perspective or made sense of . |
| 5 | The fact gnawed at him , haunting him while he cleaned out the sitting-room fire or made tea or used the Electrolux . |
| 6 | His Aunt Edith , Uncle Walter 's wife , had worked in a factory that made Spitfire bits . |
| 7 | Guilt was , after all , one of the things that made sex really interesting . |
| 8 | Bull that made love to a Volvo |
| 9 | ‘ KISS ’ IS the record that made Prince unnecessary ; it contains everything that is great about him and after he had released it , he could quite easily have gone to live on the Moon and he would not have been missed . |
| 10 | EVOLVING humanoids grew more intelligent at about the time they began using tools to hunt ; this finding has encouraged anthropologists to speculate that it was tool use that made intelligence particularly adaptive . |
| 11 | Finally , he shouted to all dealers : " Ring all the clients that made money by coming into Helene of London on your advice . |
| 12 | Or was there something about the nature of French rule that made revolution inevitable ? |
| 13 | Then the children were evacuated from London in fear of air raids and that made life difficult for many Sunday schools , since the London children wanted to show the local children how tough they were . |
| 14 | But these were the things that made life worth living . |
| 15 | The contract with Blue Rondo , and Virgin 's success in another auction for the signature of a limpid guitar group called the Pale Fountains , brought accusations within the industry that Virgin were guilty of ‘ chequebook signing ’ — paying prices that made life more expensive for everyone . |
| 16 | What , well , we had a very large sitting dining room where we put er our dining room furniture at one end and as , the sitting room furniture at the other , it was very large actually , a Nissan hut does n't look very big , but it is quite big and we had one large bedroom where we got all our furniture in there and then there was er a kitchen , and there was an Elsan lavatory in the garden which er you had to go outside for that , and er , we bought a full length galvanized bath like an ordinary bath upstairs and there was a boiler in the kitchen so we used to light the fire of the boiler , fill the boiler with water from the tap , we had a , oh we had all sorts of er innovations that made life easy as could be in the circumstances , we had er hose pipe from the kitchen sink into the bathroom , we managed to get about three baths a week , cos it , it was a terrible fag , but we did , and then you just emptied the bath out and out in the drain outside you know . |
| 17 | According to our blonde stewardess , herself an object of fantasy , all life was a mindless rush , gabbled nonsense , sweaty commuting between the only moments that made sense , the embrace of a man and a woman . |
| 18 | Ah , yes , that made sense . |
| 19 | Some of them did n't read music or tablature and they just needed chord symbols and little expressions that made sense to them . |
| 20 | The truth is that I kept on having mental lapses , during which I could hear every word that was being spoken , understand the meaning of each word and even of some phrases , but could n't make these disparate utterances add up to anything that made sense . |
| 21 | At home my anorexic behaviour sustained me : it was the only consistent factor in my life , the only thing that made sense . |
| 22 | She wrote long letters home to Antonia in which she translated the other girls ' lives in terms that made sense to her . |
| 23 | The Macmillan era had aroused hopes in leftist hearts that we might achieve a mixed economy that made sense ; but the murkiness of political scandal and the absurdities of needless party discord rendered Mr Macmillan 's last months unhappy and confused . |
| 24 | Yes , that made sense . |
| 25 | She frowned , but then reluctantly decided that made sense . |
| 26 | Within the merchant banking community , he adds , clearing bank was a ‘ pejorative term ’ , part of the social distinction that made County , a new boy on the merchant banking block , all the more determined to succeed . |
| 27 | Crippled chairs with missing feet and tufts of stuffing coming through the cracks ; dead , useless grandfather clocks with faces but no hands ; embroidered hangings eaten with mould patches that made hunt scenes resemble maps of unknown worlds . |
| 28 | Think rather , ‘ When from France And those old German wars we came back here Already it was the mind 's swift haunting glance Towards the further past , that made time dear . ’ |
| 29 | She had far more important things to think about , like how she was going to survive the next four weeks alone with a man whose quiet voice and manner hid a ruthlessness and determination that made steel look limp by comparison . |
| 30 | God 's sovereignty was reaffirmed in a manner that made salvation by works untenable . |