Example sentences of "[noun] made [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The vulnerability of minor revenue officials to demotion or removal made it imperative for them to remain on good terms with men of influence able to mar their careers , and shortly after his clash with the provost of Inverkeithing Main made his peace with the Cunningham family . |
| 2 | The pope 's ardent desire for clarification and decision made it possible for judges to be used who were not always the bishops , in close contact with Rome , but abbots and other ecclesiastical officials . |
| 3 | The Bournemouth decision made it clear that the Unity Campaign 's success had been more apparent than real . |
| 4 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 5 | The difficulty was , Maddy made him nervous , and the more anxious he became , the stickier became his palms . |
| 6 | On this plate was depicted a map of the heavens , and holes along the line of the ecliptic made it possible for a representation of the sun to be moved at intervals of a day or two in imitation of its annual motion . |
| 7 | Only when it became clear that the rules made it impossible for them to shake the landowners ' grip on the zemstvos did interest decline so that the last pre-war zemstvo elections were marked by peasant apathy . |
| 8 | But Will made it clear he 'll be happy to work with me and was keen that we all pull together . ’ |
| 9 | The large numbers of the English gentry and aristocracy who enjoyed the profits from impropriated tithes were further alarmed when the Laudian ecclesiastical authorities made it clear they would spare no pains in an attempt to recover as much as they could of the church 's former wealth and power . |
| 10 | Although the discovery of the double helix made it possible to understand how information might be stored in DNA , revolutionary advances in areas such as nucleotide sequencing and computing have been needed before people can contemplate recovering the stored information on a large scale . |
| 11 | Taylor made it clear that he is not happy with Platt , scorer of England 's last five goals and widely regarded as the manager 's favourite footballing son . |
| 12 | Criticisms within and without Parliament made it clear that this audit model of control was beginning to falter in the post-war period . |
| 13 | A screwed access plug or ‘ eye ’ in the bottom of the U made it possible to empty the trap of debris if it got blocked . |
| 14 | Jacqueline made it clear that she disapproved and eventually told Catherine to move out . |
| 15 | But France 's own reliance on US financial support made it difficult to resist the Anglo-American policy . |
| 16 | Mr Baker made it clear that the leadership was determined to use the conference — under the slogan ‘ The right team for Britain 's future ’ — to lift the flagging morale of supporters and raise the party in the opinion polls . |
| 17 | Victoria made it clear any schedule would have to make time for both shopping and relaxing , with official duties including opening hospital wards and presenting medals at swimming galas . |
| 18 | In this case Mr Kelly made it clear to Dixons that his client needed a PC which could be upgraded to 4Mb of RAM and could take a dongle plugged into Com1 . |
| 19 | This was because the terms of the contract between seller and buyer made it clear that the buyer in re-selling the goods was doing so , not for his own account , but as agent for , and on account of , the seller . |
| 20 | The publishing explosion following the development of printing made it necessary for catalogues to give rather more detail : for instance , the edition and date of a book might now be more crucial to the reader , because there were so many variants . |
| 21 | This split made it impossible to unite a broad democratic majority and left the republic divided almost from the start of the regime . |
| 22 | The courts of law , they argued , are procedurally ill-equipped for this task since their formality , cost , speed , and complexity made them inaccessible to , or intimidating for , the ordinary citizen . |
| 23 | The straight forward design and short wheel base made it ideal for negotiating the sharp curves of the Welshpool line . |
| 24 | The nationalised Boards , being larger than their predecessors , could , moreover , now afford to employ more specialist sales staff to cater for these markets ( though they found that their pay scales made it difficult to recruit and keep good industrial salesmen in competition with the electrical manufacturing concerns ) . |
| 25 | They asked : were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible ? |
| 26 | The latter measure made it worthwhile for the Americans to try and do what the British had failed at , making British films which would go down well in America . |
| 27 | The judgment on the News International ban made it clear that political censorship , at least , could be fought effectively , and the basis for the defence against censorship was the Public Libraries and Museums Act 1964 . |
| 28 | However , William made it clear that he was opposed to limitations , and not only was it doubtful whether such far-reaching reforms could have passed the Lords ( where the Tories held the ascendancy ) , but even the moderate Whigs showed themselves unprepared to support them . |
| 29 | Their casual acceptance of his presence made him edgy . |
| 30 | Their long-lived presence made it possible for them to act as a kind of semi-permanent critique of newer cultural trends . |