Example sentences of "[noun] made them [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | They asked : were there really no girls in youth cultures and street gangs or had sociological accounts made them invisible ? |
| 3 | Polished parquet and a narrow scarlet runner made them all look the same . |
| 4 | Since , on principle , they could not say that lesbianism made them nervous and that the complex new demands made on them scared them , they found more underhand and aggressive ways of expressing their resentments . |
| 5 | The top-rope on the first two pitches made them possible , and then we worked upwards , forcing tired bodies to perform and tired minds to keep them safe . |
| 6 | A sound from the doorway made them both turn . |
| 7 | Other speakers seemed to be relatively exposed to standardizing mainstream influences , in that they had contracted few personal ties which were likely to exert normative pressure on their behaviour ; but in any case the geographical spread of the ties contracted by most Braniel speakers made them difficult to investigate . |
| 8 | The failure of any of the interviewers to ask the politicians about these dangerous and difficult matters made them all seem like collaborators in the politicians ' games . |
| 9 | They were actuated by entirely unselfish motives and their training in trade union work made them invaluable in the most important work — picketing at the entrances to the docks " . |
| 10 | Their cool , disdainful attitude to strangers and their style and exuberance in the dance hall made them respected and admired by their white contemporaries . |
| 11 | Some parents found social work visits made them fearful and anxious and their self-esteem was reduced . |
| 12 | ‘ Have n't you read , ’ Jesus replied , ‘ that at the beginning the Creator made them male and female , and said , ‘ For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife , and the two will become one flesh ’ ? |
| 13 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
| 14 | The lights came back on and then a thud overhead made them all jump . |
| 15 | They came , they went : their rarity made them beautiful . |
| 16 | While he was still searching for the right question to ask , the sound of a key in the padlock made them both jump . |
| 17 | Early Han overian governments could be viciously repressive , especially in Scotland after the Forty-Five , but their very unpopularity made them careful about the way they treated English grievances . |
| 18 | The depute fiscal , Elaine Warden , asked the sheriff to demand more staff for patients whose agitated conditions made them liable to fall out of bed . |
| 19 | A comment was made that the idiosyncrasies of each library made them difficult to use . |
| 20 | Here we illustrated numerous dramatic conversions of warehouses and textile mills whose open-plan layouts made them adaptable for virtually any purpose . |
| 21 | Neither were visible and the heavy spray made them undetectable by radar . |
| 22 | Melissa was about to retort that as she had only known Bonard for three days he could hardly be described as a friend of hers , when a surprised , ‘ Well , what do you know ? ’ from Jack made them both glance round . |
| 23 | The shrill jangle of the door bell made them both jump . |
| 24 | The Lord God made them all . ’ |
| 25 | The Lord God Made Them All . |
| 26 | Mr Cavendish adapted the hymn with great enthusiasm : My meat 's fresh and flavoursome , All creatures great and small , All things roast and barbecued , The Lord God made them all — and bang ! down came the cleaver and the blood trickled away down the special channel . |
| 27 | In particular I want to highlight the words recorded by Mark where Jesus said ‘ But from the beginning of the CREATION God made them male and female . |
| 28 | They coughed their way through All Things Bright and Beautiful , and when they came to the bit about ‘ God made them high and lowly , and ordered their estate , ’ he waved them to an unceremonious halt and plunged into his sermon : |
| 29 | Mike Benton 's ideas are reminiscent of those of Tony Swain and Gillian Cooper-Driver who proposed that dinosaurs became extinct through their dietary requirements They suggested that the development of alkaloidal synthesis of cyanogenic glycoside precursors in the early angiosperms made them unpalatable to the dinosaurs , effectively starving them into extinction . |
| 30 | Indeed , the specificity of bacteriophages made them useful in identifying particular strains of bacteria , and the procedure called ‘ phage typing ’ was used for tracing the organism responsible for the spread of an infection in a community . |