Example sentences of "made [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Orton told Stephanie how in her day they made right big puffed-up brown Yorkshires and served them separate , with the gravy poured in , before the meat , to spin it out , you had to scrape and pinch in them days . |
| 2 | William Hill made Dead Certain their 12-1 Guineas favourite but Corals offers only 8-1 . |
| 3 | His very uniqueness made most other pilots avoid him . |
| 4 | Leys , for example , argues that the fact that the colonial state apparatus had to subdue opposition from pre-colonial ruling classes does not mean that it would inevitably be overdeveloped by the time of dependence , because ‘ by that time the capitalist mode of production had been introduced , and made effectively dominant , in the colonial social formation ’ . |
| 5 | Then , during late March and April , they made rather half-hearted and dilatory attempts to get agreement on this basis . |
| 6 | Jim looked over and smiled as his daughter made rather ungainly attempts to emulate the lively young girls above her , but then as he watched he became slightly concerned , because her movements became even more ungainly and then spasmodic , and then jerky until her head was nodding , her legs shooting out in a frenzy , her arms twitching , and she fell , uttering a loud cry , which was so strong and unreal , that it stilled the noise of the bagpipes and everyone looked to see what was happening . |
| 7 | Many of the relatives and friends who rated the homes as an excellent place for the person who died to live towards the end of his or her life made rather perfunctory comments : ‘ I ca n't fault the home ’ ; ‘ It was very nice , no qualms about it . ’ |
| 8 | Notwithstanding their impulse to improve , most officials came to recognize , after a year or two in Masailand , that on the whole the Masai made remarkably efficient use of the land . |
| 9 | Hindu priests in the fourth and fifth centuries AD made remarkably detailed studies of their sacred texts — the Vedas . |
| 10 | The Ascot fences are not nearly as fierce as their Mildmay counterparts at Aintree , but several of the fancied horses made remarkably heavy weather of them . |
| 11 | Following their attack on the American naval units in Pearl Harbour , the Japanese forces made remarkably swift advances in the Far East , managing to capture Singapore from the British forces , on 15th . |
| 12 | She bought a car , which widened the range of our activities but made little other difference to the lives of us boys . |
| 13 | He brought out all the papal arguments and the curial forces from legates to censures , but while he obtained acknowledgement of his final authority in matrimonial matters , he made little other headway . |
| 14 | Although they had had several centuries to grow into the landscape , they still represented a foreign intrusion for many increasingly xenophobic Englishmen , and the growing attack on their position made little real attempt to differentiate between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ houses . |
| 15 | These papal concessions , however , made little favourable impression outside Gaunt 's circle , and they combined with an unpopular truce , spectacular military setbacks and the threat of invasion to provoke the crisis of the so-called Good Parliament in October 1376 . |
| 16 | Right across the social scale , religion made little perceptible difference to the outward shape of life . |
| 17 | A heavy stream of important trading statements made little lasting impression on the shares involved . |
| 18 | A heavy stream of important trading statements made little lasting impression on the shares involved . |
| 19 | Even an early advance in New York — after news of a higher-than expected 2.2 per cent rise in US durable goods orders in February — made little lasting impression in London . |
| 20 | When he was Prime Minister he made little personal impact on television , bared his teeth at the cameras like an old dog , and was generally aloof and buffer-like . |
| 21 | He fought and he flapped and made little gurgling noises , but Angelica hung on . |
| 22 | As someone who made little enough progress beyond Youll Cup school tennis and county junior teams in 20 years , I remain to be convinced but I enjoyed the three hours I spent reading the book . |
| 23 | Although she made little initial impact in England , her scheme gained influential support in Scotland where it was adopted by the Scottish Education Department which agreed to give School Boards ‘ choice of employment ’ powers under the Education ( Scotland ) Act 1908 . |
| 24 | Alice Thornton 's life made little public impact but her 800-odd pages of autobiographical writings , preserved by the Comber family and published , in part , in the nineteenth century , provide a fascinating account of her personality , and more generally , of the family life of a gentlewoman in later seventeenth-century England . |
| 25 | There , a tired reminder of arrangements made sufficiently confusing by the first notice . |
| 26 | The question has to be , however , are Messrs Waters , Gilmour , Wright and Mason worthy of such a monument and , more importantly , is the music they made together all those years ago still alive in the '90s ? |
| 27 | The ban on all sales and supplies to Iraq and Kuwait specifically included arms ; it excluded medical supplies and , in wording made less specific following an initiative by Ethiopia , the supply of food in humanitarian circumstances . |
| 28 | Catherine , made less thin by candlelight , had put on a blue dress which made her look even younger than her age . |
| 29 | I made so many errors on my backhand trying to put too much into every shot , ’ she said . |
| 30 | ‘ That was a reverse of the journey we made so many times to council planning meetings , ’ said Steve Clarke , chairman of the Supporters ' Club and standing for election to the board . |