Example sentences of "make [det] of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , punk served to obscure the fact that they made some of the greatest rock ever . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , punk served to obscure the fact that they made some of the greatest rock ever . |
| 3 | Now they make some of the quietest walking in England away from the high moors . |
| 4 | Commentators throughout the period made much of the working class woman 's limited horizons and passivity . |
| 5 | Encouraged by Hamadan , Younis made much of the minor role Nabi Berri had assigned to him in the Air Jordanian incident and admitted he had helped guard the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack . |
| 6 | Feminists in particular make much of the social disadvantage under which women suffer . |
| 7 | It did n't make much of the singular individual draped upon the low bench beneath the window . |
| 8 | Temple has made some of the best music videos that exist . |
| 9 | He was a Southerner and a devout Catholic , like Moro himself , and I think he felt guilty for not having made more of the best chance anyone had so far had to rescue his hero . |
| 10 | Foreign fund managers and Japanese retail investors buying on margin have made most of the net share purchases in recent months ( along with government-controlled savings institutions ) . |
| 11 | Why , for example , did they not make more of the greater physique and technique of their battle-hardened pack ? |
| 12 | Parts of the press and television , some still government-controlled , have been energetically making little of the latest setback . |
| 13 | A few years ago they were making some of the best pop singles you could play on a jukebox : ‘ Something About You ’ , ‘ Leaving Me Now ’ , ‘ Lessons In Love ’ , all the kind of thing that you felt you were going to be sick of hearing before long but which still sounded good after the thousandth time . |
| 14 | Alex 's strange position in the production must have been making all of the usual understudy agonies even worse . |
| 15 | Hucklecote made most of the early running and took the lead on six minutes , Steve Barslow converting a penalty , and they increased that lead after a quarter of an hour when Mark Halkins went over for a try following good work from Steve Hamslow . |
| 16 | A British company called GPT , which makes many of the digital telephone exchanges used by BT , Mercury and others , has devised a way of upgrading its System X exchanges to link to UNIX machines so that anyone can write the software to run on them . |