Example sentences of "made they [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | The high proportion of royalists looks embarrassing not only for Merton 's thesis but for variants of it which have claimed that it was the political radicalism ( not the puritanism ) of the parliamentary radicals that made them receptive to revolutionary science . |
2 | Whether , for instance , concepts such as ‘ ethnicity ’ , ‘ class ’ , ‘ politics ’ are ‘ culture-free ’ , that is whether academics have succeeded in freeing them from their narrow everyday cultural uses and made them available for cross-cultural use , is a question of judgement and , ultimately , of ontology . |
3 | Philips kept their ownership of the buildings and equipment used in the preparation and serving of the food , but made them available to ISS without charge ( while undertaking to maintain them in good order ) and Philips even paid for the electricity , water and telephone costs involved in the canteen operation and for the removal of waste . |
4 | ‘ I 'd prefer a proper fire , of course , but we made them illegal in this part of London some years ago . ’ |
5 | Some parents found social work visits made them fearful and anxious and their self-esteem was reduced . |
6 | Masters degree theses were excluded because the smaller numbers made them unsuitable for analysis . |
7 | Indeed , the specificity of bacteriophages made them useful in identifying particular strains of bacteria , and the procedure called ‘ phage typing ’ was used for tracing the organism responsible for the spread of an infection in a community . |
8 | One senior officer described policewomen as having an ‘ instinct for tidiness ’ which made them good administrators ( FN 30/11/87 , p. 33 ) ; frequently they were described as being suited to dealing with child and female offences because of their more compassionate natures compared to male colleagues . |
9 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
10 | The basic models or ‘ paradigms ’ of scientific theories seemed firm , though great scientists like James Clerk Maxwell ( 1831–79 ) formulated their versions with the instinctive caution which made them compatible with later theories based on very different models . |
11 | Roman weapons used the bow as their mechanical basis , but the medieval ones tended to use the sling , which made them heavier and more cumbersome . |
12 | Made them ink-exercise it for the Thursday and when I got in the results I was tearing my hair . |
13 | He was of the opinion that the Masai possessed ‘ a faculty for reasoned intelligence , a pride and a susceptibility to leadership and ideas which made them amenable to sympathetic handling ’ . |
14 | In Toulouse also , the steadily falling value of comital coins in the second half of the century made them relevant at last to the needs of the merchant classes . |
15 | They were situated in positions which made them visible from the pests on each side . |
16 | He had been in charge of the Recorder Club ; he had taken boys sailing at Toddbrook and Salcome ; he taught so-called " dead " languages but made them live : quieter and gentler pursuits than many , no doubt , but performed with enthusiasm and commitment . |
17 | Not that this made them live longer — average life expectancy was only 38 . |
18 | Since , on principle , they could not say that lesbianism made them nervous and that the complex new demands made on them scared them , they found more underhand and aggressive ways of expressing their resentments . |
19 | This excited them — maybe the idea was right after all-and also made them nervous , both for their awn safety and for what might happen if the news leaked out . |
20 | Tucholsky once remarked that there were people who thought that staying in an elegant hotel made them elegant themselves . |
21 | Neither were visible and the heavy spray made them undetectable by radar . |
22 | They were actuated by entirely unselfish motives and their training in trade union work made them invaluable in the most important work — picketing at the entrances to the docks " . |
23 | Haldane and Hogben 's Marxism made them critical of pedigree studies because it taught them that biological determinism should be supplemented by economic determinism . |
24 | Sarah felt that their very height made them vulnerable and was afraid that the trunks would snap under the pressure . |
25 | Although the case was ‘ exceptional ’ , due to the size of the financial crash , and a careful balance between the administrators ' reasonable needs and the oppression of the addressee was necessary , applications were not necessarily unreasonable because they were inconvenient to the addressee , caused a lot of work or made them vulnerable to future claims . |
26 | It is from some of these 400 that the letters come protesting innocence — and if they often ramble and are poorly expressed , that is indicative of a lack of education which made them vulnerable to manipulation in the first place . |
27 | However , certain types of women were ‘ selected out ’ by the redundancy process ; they tended to be disadvantaged in human capital terms , which made them vulnerable to poverty ( Callender , 1986b ) . |
28 | And the colour was protection because ill fortune weakened its victims and made them vulnerable . |
29 | Insanitary conditions , and the concentration of people and rats in a limited area , made them vulnerable to attacks of plague , and it is noteworthy that even when the disease had ceased to be common in the country , it persisted in urban areas . |
30 | In particular I want to highlight the words recorded by Mark where Jesus said ‘ But from the beginning of the CREATION God made them male and female . |