Example sentences of "[noun sg] made [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 2 | A young student at Bangor University made his first TV appearance with us . |
| 3 | Fairbank 's contribution to handwriting made him known to a larger public . |
| 4 | Moreover , just as Moore thought that freedom from the naturalistic fallacy made one more ready to recognize that there is a plurality of basically different sorts of good thing , so Ross thought that freedom from this wrong definition of right and duty in terms of good made one ready to recognize that there is a plurality of grounds of obligation , of which the obligation to produce good and reduce bad is just one , or rather two , for he thinks the duty to prevent bad a distinct , and usually more stringent , duty than to produce good . |
| 5 | The ‘ drift into a law and order society ’ which Hall identifies did not by any means begin with the accession to power of the Conservative Party under Mrs Thatcher in 1979 , and its effects have hardly disappeared with her resignation in 1990 , but the ideology made its presence most felt in her heyday in the early to mid-1990s ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 6 | It was biting , but she was censoring herself instinctively now , because Florian 's personality was truly one-dimensional , albeit in another way , and the only thing she had ever given him was the degree of tolerance his peculiar genius made his due . |
| 7 | He was a man whose approachability made him seem so very affable , but no one , however wealthy , becomes a Presidential hopeful without some steel in the soul , and it was that sudden steel that I now saw in the senator 's eyes . |
| 8 | You had to go to such trouble to persuade the subject to accept the poison and when ( or rather , in his case if ) you managed it , your very intimacy made it all too clear to everyone that you were the one who was slipping them the doctored crumble , the dodgy spaghetti bolognese or the potato salad unusually rich in mineral salts . |
| 9 | There was also substantial cross-group agreement on the selection of this feature , with most groups arguing that the 'summarising " nature of this sentence made it a strong candidate for an opening to the story . |
| 10 | I accept that very frequently a decision made which directly affects one person or body will also affect , indirectly , a number of other persons or bodies , and that the law does not require the decision-making body to give an opportunity to every person who may be affected however remotely by its decision to make representations before the decision is reached . |
| 11 | He seemed to remember something about her , something which took him back into a happy past , before decision made his life difficult . |
| 12 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |
| 13 | The Bournemouth decision made it clear that the Unity Campaign 's success had been more apparent than real . |
| 14 | With the decision made she felt a kind of temporary peace . |
| 15 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 16 | This partially revived me after the £1,314 price tag made me feel faint . |
| 17 | The price tag made her wince . |
| 18 | His younger brother Philip was tied up and locked in the boot of a car for three hours while the gang made their getaway . |
| 19 | It 's possible the gang made their getaway along the nearby M4 . |
| 20 | That was impossible , because the heat and the champagne made her feel dizzy , till she felt she could hardly concentrate . |
| 21 | She was tired , emotionally and physically tired , and the champagne made her cease to worry about whether she was right to allow the Burgermeister to cosset her with flowers and champagne . |
| 22 | Keller 's Zurich upbringing made him into a skiier and sculler , and he raced for the Grasshopper club . |
| 23 | Political Islam made its biggest splash not in the Middle East but in distant Algeria , and for reasons wholly unconnected with the Gulf war . |
| 24 | Perhaps the presence of her young mistress made her desist from talk ; Emily would address her in high tones as a servant , no more , although the woman was her only companion . |
| 25 | On this plate was depicted a map of the heavens , and holes along the line of the ecliptic made it possible for a representation of the sun to be moved at intervals of a day or two in imitation of its annual motion . |
| 26 | The effort of her attack on the offending wrinkled mass made her slip backwards into the bow of the lavatory . |
| 27 | In only his third full senior game , he produced a creative , mature performance that was too much for Liverpool at Anfield — where Parlour made his League debut last January and gave away a penalty . |
| 28 | The invasion of the non-marine habitat probably first happened in the Carboniferous , but relatives of the living land snails are rare before the Cretaceous , at which time the familiar Helix made its first appearance . |
| 29 | Although the discovery of the double helix made it possible to understand how information might be stored in DNA , revolutionary advances in areas such as nucleotide sequencing and computing have been needed before people can contemplate recovering the stored information on a large scale . |
| 30 | And the fact that she wanted nothing more than to entrust herself to fitzAlan 's protection made her nervousness all the more acute . |