Example sentences of "make [pers pn] the [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition .
2 You could make them the same overall diameter , you could even get the tensions to be the same , but when you play those strings they 're going to feel completely different because a string with a thin core and a heavy wrap is going to move more freely than one with a heavy core and a thin wrap .
3 ‘ The lean-line droopiness of Michael Crawford and Oliver Reed 's big-drum bravado make them the best double act since Laurel and Hardy , ’ wrote Alexander Walker in the London Evening Standard .
4 The technology has certainly come of age and whereas battery powered tools can never compete in power with mains operated ones , their increasing sales have made them the fastest developing aspect of woodworking technology today .
5 Her population , geographical position , army and industrial strength made her the leading continental nation .
6 MOUNTAIN adventurer Rebecca Stephens was yesterday thought to have set off on the final stage of a climb which will make her the first British women to reach the top of Everest .
7 Robson 's influence has been legendary within United — but manager Alex Ferguson believes Ince is showing the qualities which will make him the new Red leader .
8 Lewis fuses a blend of soul , jazz and rock to haunting effect which may well make him the hottest new talent since Seal .
9 ( George 's conviction made him the first high-ranking member of the CIA ever to be convicted of felony offences while conducting official duties . )
10 He said afterwards that he had understood Terry had come out just to allow him to reach his goal , but it was an unfortunate end to a splendid innings , which made him the first English batsman since Barrington in 1967 to score three consecutive centuries in a series .
11 Sawle acknowledged this on the eve of the final Test when , asked to defend the dumping of Marsh , he made the point that it had been the bowlers — Craig McDermott ( whose 31 wickets made him the highest Australian wicket-taker in a series against India ) , Bruce Reid ( a wrecker in the second Test before breaking down again ) and Merv Hughes — who had been the key figures throughout the series .
12 Jamie Spence 's win in the Canon European Masters made him the sixth first-time winner on this season 's Volvo Tour .
13 He was never equal to Self in Citrine 's esteem , and he remained jealous of intervention by Self in matters of engineering and the development of policy on the generation side , for which his background and experience made him the natural senior voice among other engineers and managers .
14 Now , Labour needs a further swing of eight per cent to be sure of an overall majority but six per cent would make it the biggest single party .
15 The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough .
16 Within this region up to 350,000 sq km would be owned outright by its Inuit inhabitants , thereby making them the largest private landlords in the world .
17 They also rejected Christie 's claim of a continuing rise in market share vis à vis Sotheby 's , resulting in a 49% share this season ( the highest since the mid-1950s ) and a 54% market share in Europe , making them the largest European auction house by sales .
18 The Stewarts reigned for 333 years , through 7 Scottish kings , a queen ( Mary Queen of Scots ) , and 7 monarchs of Great Britain , making theirs the longest monarchical dynasty ever to rule in these islands .
19 It was announced at the same time that the UK Prime Minister , John Major , would travel to Beijing to sign the agreement , making him the first Western head of government to visit China since the crushing of the pro-democracy movement in June 1989 .
20 His reward came in July 1655 when Carvajal and his two sons were endenizened , thus making him the first English Jew , at least since the expulsion in 1290 .
21 For that Macaulay reportedly earned £62,000 but his fee has soared to more than £2 million , making him the highest paid child star of all time .
22 Formby 's films , with their straightforward plots and repressed naughtiness , were first-class family entertainment , making him the top box-office attraction of the late 1930s .
23 On April 7 Djibouti lifted all trade and travel restrictions whilst Côte d'Ivoire announced the establishment of full diplomatic relations , making it the second African country ( after Malawi ) to exchange ambassadors .
24 Scotts Valley , California-based Microport Inc 's System V.4 now supports Corollary Inc 's multiprocessor and XM multiprocessor hardware designs , making it the first independent software vendor to provide a shrinkwrapped multiprocessing version of Unix SVR4 .
25 Butterfield saw an increase in sales of 12% last year , making it the largest American auction house .
26 Up to 150,000 people joined the march in the city centre on Feb. 4 , making it the largest unofficial demonstration in the city since the immediate post-revolution period ; members of unofficial groups of almost every political persuasion joined in , from anarchists and separatists to right-wing Russian nationalists and monarchists .
27 And , as the European manufacturer operating in the only home market where tenders are genuinely open , ICL has succeeded in making itself truly competitive , so much so that insiders are saying that profits for 1992 will be only slightly below the £62.4m recorded for 1991 , making it the only profitable mainframer in Europe .
28 Consumers throughout the EC and in other wealthy countries had responded by increased purchases , making it the fastest- growing sector of the meat industry
29 Under the statue is an inscription mentioning Tresseno — Dominum Oldradus de Trexeno , Pot ( estas ) Mediolani — and dated MCCXXXIII , 1233 , making it the oldest equestrian statue in Milan .
30 Oracle notes that its $1,200m turnover for fiscal 1992 included $240m in tools sales , making it the leading independent vendor of application development tools , and Oracle claims that Co-operative Development Environment coupled with the Oracle7 Co-operative Server Database enables its installed base to upgrade existing applications to a graphical client-server environment .
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