Example sentences of "[noun] made the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved . |
| 2 | Good manners demanding it , Luce made the formal introduction , adding perforce , ‘ Mr and Mrs Cook are staying in the same hotel . ’ |
| 3 | And the Union made the expected noises about not appointing a forensic scientist . |
| 4 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 5 | It did n't take much anaesthetic to render the exhausted patient unconscious , and , as Sophie made the first incision , she put aside her dislike of being critically watched by her professional rival and concentrated on her life-saving task . |
| 6 | Durham County champion Craig Kilgour made the first steps towards his comeback last weekend when he was among a number of county players who took part in a coaching session held by English Golf Union coach Bill Ferguson . |
| 7 | Takeshiba-O made the early pace followed by the two American horses Czar Alexander and Fort Marcy , while Piggott was content to keep Sir Ivor well covered up at the back of the field with La Lagune . |
| 8 | Swinburne read Greek and took English metric in hand ; Rossetti brought in the Italian primitives ; Fitzgerald made the only good poem of the time that has gone to the PeoPle ; it is called , and is to a great extent , a translation or mistranslation . |
| 9 | To begin with , people thought that electric charges could be arbitrarily big or small , but Faraday made the crucial step of showing that charged atoms , or ions , are always associated with a fixed amount of charge or some multiple thereof , suggesting atoms of electric charge . |
| 10 | With Marlboro 's backing , McLaren made the right decision : Hunt could continue to be himself . |
| 11 | The Norwegian biologist Thorleif Schjelderup-Ebbe made the first important observations on dominance , in the 1920s . |
| 12 | The 18-year-old 's enthusiasm made the first and third chances for Hendrie after 51 and 66 minutes . |
| 13 | The bravery of men swimming ashore in these pioneer beach reconnaissances is beyond question , and knowing Norman Teacher as a friend , as well as being his CO , the Commander feels there is a strong probability that the young Lieutenant made the supreme sacrifice in swimming to his death rather than risking his capture , as others , too , may have done . |
| 14 | ALAN KELLY made the crucial penalty shoot-out save that crowned Sheffield United 's FA Cup fightback against Blackburn and clinched their first semi-final for 32 years . |
| 15 | After Simmons stabbed at a lifter from Bosch and was caught off the shoulder of the bat in the gully in the fourth over , Snell made the vital breaks , removing Haynes and , first ball after tea , Richardson . |
| 16 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 17 | Leaders Sunderland made the short trip to Seaham and things looked close at half time as they nosed in front 19–14 . |
| 18 | Scott and a team including Chris Bonington made the first ascent in 1977 ; on the rock ridge of Shivling East Pillar ; Greg Child belayed on Lobsang Spire in the Karakoram — another first ascent for Scott in 1983 . |
| 19 | Shoe shop owner Nick Dando and his wife Melanie made the gruesome find while taking their daughters on a nature ramble in remote woodland . |
| 20 | When W. S. Rockstro made the first thorough-going attempt at a life of Handel in 1883 , he had before him a list of no fewer than 53 likenesses made during the composer 's lifetime . |
| 21 | Navarre lost his castles and was lucky not to lose his life ; he was to attempt further intrigues with the English , but his double-dealing made the English wary of him . |
| 22 | Danish star Torben Piechnik , who will complete a £500,000 move to Anfield today from FC Copenhagen , had hardly settled into his seat before Stewart made the vital early breakthrough in the fourth minute . |
| 23 | She was rehomed , but the story made the front page of the local Sunday paper . |
| 24 | During a period of pitiful loneliness and depression , Marinello made the ill-advised decision to compromise his skills and try to win his way back into the Arsenal first team as an auxiliary midfield player rather than an avaricious dribbler . |
| 25 | In the early stages both Pat Eddery on Dancing Brave and Gary Moore on Bering held up their mounts towards the rear , but had improved to the middle of the pack as the field made the downhill run towards the straight . |
| 26 | In October Gen. Dmitri Yazov made the first visit to the USA by a Soviet Defence Minister , at the invitation of US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney . |
| 27 | Repton made the same point in his Sketches and Hints of 1794 : ‘ To improve the scenery of country and to display its native beauties with advantage is an art which originated in England . ’ |
| 28 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 29 | Chola reached up to the arch above the doorway add seven times made the same imprint with the pad of her thumb on to seven discs of semi-dried cow-dung . |
| 30 | In 1974 Hawking made the astonishing discovery that black holes , previously regarded simply as absorbers of radiation , do in fact themselves radiate . |