Example sentences of "[noun] make [pers pn] the " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 2 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 3 | If she were interested in such a campaign , she could perhaps use as the model for it our own dear Speaker , whose radiant health and youthfulness make him the perfect epitome of a diet based on vegetarianism . |
| 4 | The Ideal had to close down , and a vandal 's brick made it the Id al , which spelled the end of an era . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 7 | So his political background and other skills made him the logical candidate ’ . |
| 8 | The advantages of disc in the storage of information and in speed of access to any part make it the more flexible combination , with a wider range of possible uses . |
| 9 | His sparse blond hair was dark with sweat , and his surprised blue eyes and hangdog look made him the most unlikely royal messenger Corbett had ever seen . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He was immediately dispatched to the scene , where his energy , intelligence and presence of mind made him the chief decision-taker in the first days after the explosion of reactor number four . |
| 12 | And we have more plans for the future to make it the ultimate private leisure club . |
| 13 | The power and complexity of this latest offering makes it the world 's fastest single-chip computer , according to its maker . |
| 14 | The power and complexity of this latest offering makes it the world 's fastest single-chip computer , according to its maker . |
| 15 | The central location of the Plough makes it the ideal venue for both business and pleasure . |
| 16 | We are committed to it and it is our intention to make it the centre of a big programme of tennis in the city . ’ |
| 17 | Brown ‘ boiled-up cow ’ type glue is holding the all-solid construction together remarkably well , and the high action makes it the perfect instrument for playing bottleneck and slide blues . |
| 18 | Pluralists make it the outcome of bureaucratic battles within each state . |
| 19 | I ca n't remember what was on , it was a plain , well , we , we had er french windows with a balcony , it was an upstairs maisonette and the wall that end was orange and my father-in- law made us the cocktail bar , do you remember that cocktail bar |
| 20 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |
| 21 | He designed for others ( costumes for Diaghilev and embroidery for Schiaparelli ) , but he also ‘ designed ’ himself ; his unquenchable desire for fame and his talent for self-publicity made him the most photographed man in Paris . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Of course , being a boy made it the more difficult , it would not be as easy , but it had begun to seem to her not impossible to keep in touch with Pen wherever he was . |
| 24 | Our programme has been extended to parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland making it the largest of its kind in the UK . |
| 25 | Sun will claim Dragon 's architecture makes it the most expandable Unix server in the business , capable of piling on memory , I/O , disk and CPUs and clearing up a lot of the bottleneck issues . |
| 26 | An administrative receiver might be considered to be the agent of those who appointed him but this is not the case ; section 44 of the 1986 Act makes him the agent of the company . |
| 27 | Not all Heroes are nobles by any means — some are ordinary folk whose outstanding abilities and deeds makes them the equal of any other hero on the battlefield . |
| 28 | Not all Heroes are nobles by any means , some are ordinary folk whose outstanding abilities and deeds makes them the equal of any other Hero on the battlefield . |
| 29 | Apart from his own native predecessors ( principally Condorcet and Comte ) , and the post-Kantian German philosopher , J. G. Fichte , there are many parallels ( as well as differences ) in the ideas of the English schoolmaster , inventor , philosopher and Fabian , Herbert Spencer ( 1820–1903 ) , whose exceptionally voluminous writings make him the father of British sociology . |
| 30 | In old age he maintained a relish for life in defiance of tribulations and failing health , and his geniality and goodness made him the centre of a circle of faithful friends and admirers . |