Example sentences of "made [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Edited by Derek Hodgson , available from Yorkshire , CCC , ) The late withdrawal of Craig McDermott from the Yorkshire staff has caused embarrassment and inconvenience in several quarters ; at the ‘ Welcome to Craig McDermott ’ dinner which was held recently in Leeds United 's banqueting suite , there was one conspicuous absentee , and now the Australian fast bowler has made rather a mess of the Yorkshire yearbook . |
| 2 | Though that was not my subject at Aix , I 've made rather a point of knowing a certain amount of French Civil Law . |
| 3 | That would have made rather a stirring final scene for my Education ? |
| 4 | I 'd just made rather a good job of denting his back bumper . ’ |
| 5 | She has made only a handful of films in the past 20 years . |
| 6 | Robert Hooke urges in his Micrographia that ‘ the science of nature has already too long been made only a work of the brain and fancy : It is now high time that it should return to the plainness and soundness of observations on material and obvious things . ’ |
| 7 | The Muslim Brotherhood has made only a marginal impact on Jordanian life since its entry into parliament . |
| 8 | England full-back Charles and Scottish Under-21 international Wilson , who have made only a handful of appearances between them this season , play for the reserves against Sheffield Wednesday . |
| 9 | The USRC therefore made only a limited impact ; most of its members sat for industrial seats and its propaganda was concentrated there for their benefit . |
| 10 | I have made only a couple of minor claims over the period in question . |
| 11 | She 's made just a handful of films in the last 20 years , but the actress says she does n't miss the silver screen — she prefers to dedicate herself to children 's charity work instead |
| 12 | Though they were made just a little lower than the angels , they were stamped with God 's character , bearing his image and divine likeness . |
| 13 | Six out of 10 voters are still not buying and three weeks of slogging seem to have made not a jot of difference . |
| 14 | It turns out that the recording was made nearly a month before the procession , and a contemporary advertisement shows that the record was heard during the Royal Progress through London on 23 June . |
| 15 | ‘ The wife has already made up a spare bed in Susan 's room . |
| 16 | Trow Gill is dry , a grass slope rising and narrowing to a breach in the cliffs at the top , a passage through it being made up a tumble of boulders . |
| 17 | Jim and Tina had made up a foursome with Jean Hay and Bruce Mackenzie . |
| 18 | The surface of the Earth is made up a number of plates , and these move relative to each other . |
| 19 | ‘ When I 've made up a lie I can believe in , ’ came the reply . |
| 20 | " No , my dear , you are just as tired as I am , and I shall rest presently in the dressing-room where I have made up a bed for myself . |
| 21 | I had made up a sort of flattened octopus-like creature , with electrically lit eyes , which we stretched out onto a frame and placed in a shallow trough of water so that it was only just submerged . |
| 22 | Camille accused herself of lack of foresight and rapidly made up a yarn whereby they had thought better of the dinner-party and had spent the evening playing Monopoly at Tim 's place in a blameless fashion . |
| 23 | women still made up a small proportion of postgraduate IT students in 1983–84 — just 13 per cent ; |
| 24 | Occasionally she went out with Diane from the neighbouring flat , and once made up a foursome with one of Diane 's boyfriends and another man . |
| 25 | I had even made up a 19 foot rod with an astronomical test curve and weighing a ton but it made no difference ! |
| 26 | Cross-examined by Bert Kerrigan , QC , for Murray , Mr Mackie denied that he had made up a pack of lies because he held a grudge against his former boss . |
| 27 | ‘ The will was made about a year ago and this is what it amounts to : ‘ The shop premises and stock and all assets pertaining to the business together with the contents of my studio excepting only my tube of Winsor blue to my niece and dear friend Cathy Carne ’ . ’ |
| 28 | The Commission observed that it was held in the order of 10 October 1989 in Commission of the European Communities v. United Kingdom ( Case 246/89 R ) [ 1989 ] E.C.R. 3125 that it had made out a prima facie case for its view on the nationality requirements . |
| 29 | It was held that C had made out a prima facie case of unlawful interference with its contract with B , notwithstanding that the direct inducement was not , as in Stratford v. Lindley , one step removed from the contract but three steps removed . |
| 30 | Traditionally , literary criticism — which generally has supported the conservative idea of the period as a time of disruption and rebellion has made out a case for the poem 's balanced quality in praising both Cromwell and Charles I. Marvell may have later been an employee of Cromwell 's Latin Secretariat , but his poem shows an independent impartiality which avoids political commitment . |