Example sentences of "made [pron] [adj] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My close friendship with Pearn had made me aware of the work that he had put into that assistance . |
| 2 | It 's also made me aware of the responsibilities involved in leading other people in bad situations — but I will tackle mountains again and I will go to camp again . |
| 3 | The anti-smoking campaigns in the media in the last few years have made everyone aware of the risks we run if we continue to smoke . |
| 4 | We had no doubt that if there was the slightest suggestion that the statements differed materially from the evidence given by the witnesses the learned trial judge would have called for these statements and examined them himself and if necessary would have made them available to the defence . |
| 5 | For most schools , there is nothing new about this thinking : TVEI has already made them familiar with the concepts of cross-curricular dimensions ( such as equal opportunities , independent learning ) skills and competences ( such as literacy , oracy , numeracy , computer literacy , and the less obvious visual literacy ) and themes ( such as health education , careers education and guidance , environmental and economic education and — increasingly — citizenship ) . |
| 6 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 7 | Their contribution is perceived as threefold : they were long-standing rivals of Gloucester , which virtually guaranteed a power struggle in 1483 ; the favour shown them by the king had made them unpopular with the rest of the Yorkist establishment ; and they were so closely identified with the young king , Edward V , that any limitation of their power could only be made permanent by his deposition . |
| 8 | Jules had tactfully made himself scarce on the pretext of work to be done at the new salon and now , two days after his visit to Maythorpe House , Harry was at last able to unburden himself . |
| 9 | Nigel had once made himself unpopular at the office by writing in his column that women past thirty should shoot themselves . |
| 10 | When she returned from the kitchen he had made himself comfortable on the sofa . |
| 11 | When Faraway Moses , who was once Count St Sylvain and a Black Rider , is captured and imprisoned , Jasper the Terrible , who has made himself responsible for the boy in his own household , offers to release the man who has become like a father to Dick if he will reveal the names of the other Confederates . |
| 12 | Mother Francis the celibate nun who had never thought she could know the joy of seeing a child grow up in her care had loved Eve in a way that might well have made her blind to the feelings and sensitivities of other people . |
| 13 | The youngest son came to the totem , to Tallis , and straightened her after the blizzard had made her lean to the left . |
| 14 | His amusing analysis of human frailty has made him one of the folk world 's more unlikely heroes — a bard who takes the knocks but never shows the bruising . |
| 15 | A hugely impressive return of eight goals from just 11 games is a true reflection of his amazing turnaround and it has already made him one of the buys of the season , even at that sizeable price tag . |
| 16 | In his memoirs he admitted that he had secretly aspired to it for decades , but had not pressed the issue for tactical reasons ( because it would have made him vulnerable to the charge of Bonapartism and perhaps also , as Debré argued in his memoirs , because popular election of the president in the circumstances of 1958 would have placed a majority of votes in the hands of the peoples of the French Community ) . |
| 17 | Fleischmann said that one of the referees had said that it was nonsense and that the reaction of this referee had made him nervous about the validity of their experiment . |
| 18 | Whisky had made him heavy in the torso and puffed up his face so that the true features were blurred , as if permanently in shadow . |
| 19 | About the time this match took place , Tonks was in the IRB meeting room alongside the French delegate and was not impressed that they had not made him aware of the game — if they in fact knew about it . |
| 20 | McQuaid felt for the authority he had slowly made his own over the years , an authority that had outgrown Moran ‘ s . |
| 21 | Volkswagen , which helped develop the smaller Eurobag specifically for smaller cars , introduced the Eurobag as optional equipment on the Golf last year and has now made it available on the Passat saloon as well . |
| 22 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 23 | There is some evidence , though not very much , of occasions when the plaintiff or husband acted or refrained from acting in a way in which they might not have done but for their expectation of inheriting the deceased 's property : I refer to the occasions when the husband refrained from selling his building land , and refrained from taking a job in Lincolnshire which would have made it impossible for the plaintiff to continue caring for her mother and the deceased , and the occasions when the plaintiff instructed solicitors at her own expense in connection with the boundary dispute … and the expenditure of time and money on the house and garden and on carpeting the house , when the deceased had ample means to pay for such matters . |
| 24 | The ferocity of the piranha fish has made it famous throughout the world . |
| 25 | In a nationally televised speech , Bush said that developments in the Soviet Union had made it possible for the United States unilaterally to " take steps to make the world a less dangerous place than ever before in the nuclear age " . |
| 26 | The same storm which had swept Hawke 's blockading cruisers away from Ushant and enabled Conflans to get out of Brest had made it possible for the privateer captain , François Thurot [ or Thourot ] to take his little five-ship fleet , carrying some 1270 soldiers and 700 seamen , out of Dunkirk . |
| 27 | The contracting system to which my hon. Friend referred has made it possible for the health authority to provide extra capacity for the specialty at Exeter hospital which will ensure that the waiting list can be worked off much more quickly than would otherwise be possible . |
| 28 | My hon. Friend is right to draw attention to the fact that the further substantial increase in the NHS 's capital budget in the next financial year has made it possible for the health authority and the Ministry of Defence to come to an agreement on that issue . |
| 29 | The Scots and the Welsh and the Irish have clearly retained very strong national cultural characteristics , which have made it necessary for the student who wants to make accurate distinctions to say ‘ British does mean something , and it 's something to do with the Briton overseas ’ . |
| 30 | Whose age had made it sacred to the view , |