Example sentences of "[adj] made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That made perfect sense of Miss Julie 's slightly tatty and irregular patrician origins . |
| 2 | I 'd have them all on if I needed a confidence boost , or just for the sheer enjoyment of the sound , but it was fundamentally one AC30 that made that noise . |
| 3 | That made some sort of sense . |
| 4 | Bragad had brought quite a few men with him — a dozen or so though some , of course , were Mugeary 's , if that made any difference . |
| 5 | In fact we made rubber stamps for people in the office — the departments to go in , the bureau , and the stamp was the J because they were all photostated to that made this stamp just loved it . |
| 6 | On 21 January the Communists numbering up to 3000 made another assault on the Secretariat and were again repulsed . |
| 7 | Hence , each made great efforts to achieve a dominant position . |
| 8 | Nick Skelton , on Burmah Serenade , and Germany 's Franke Sloothaak , on Walzerkoenig , could have taken the prize , for the rider clearing the highest course , but each made one error . |
| 9 | The appellants , who each made repeated sales at the shop , pleaded not guilty to indictments charging burglary and handling stolen goods as alternatives . |
| 10 | They were desperate for solid information rather than rumour , and a few made veiled threats to scale down their coverage of another case for which the Yard was desperate for publicity unless there was a press conference . |
| 11 | The French made countless varieties of goats ' milk cheeses which are often small and wrapped in a chestnut leaf and then tied with raffia ( see p67 ) . |
| 12 | Because German opposition was light in this sector , and because the Germans thought that , after their bleeding at Verdun , they were incapable of massed attack , the French made some gains . |
| 13 | Members of Parliament did complain about poor radio reception in their constituencies , and some made occasional allegations of political interference and bias in the radio news . |
| 14 | Nearly half the funds were , however , unable to offer independent substantiation of their ethical claims , and the report showed that some made surprising investment choices , with Nestlé and RTZ , among others , attracting " ethical " investment . |
| 15 | While this made eminent sense for production efficiency in wartime , it was very much apparent to the British that this would give the United States a natural advantage when the war ended . |
| 16 | This made short-term gilts an attractive buy ( before any interest rate cut ) , because of their fixed interest payments , so the price of these rose , driving down their yield . |
| 17 | When Paisley was later told about the woman 's remark , he immediately condemned it and rebuked her , but this made little impression on the basic loyalties of the audience . |
| 18 | The ‘ No Smoking ’ and seatbelt signs were on , although this made little difference to Myeloski who had clamped himself into his seat as soon as he had boarded the aircraft . |
| 19 | As far as the administration of relief was concerned , this made little difference ; the public assistance committees of the local authorities could be regarded as broadly the guardians under another name . |
| 20 | The one factor which might have altered this made little difference . |
| 21 | For most couples this made little difference in terms of tax actually paid , but , as feminists were quick to point out , it treated the wife as a dependant and not a separate entity . |
| 22 | Taking a share of the profits : Prior to s. 2(3) of the Partnership Act 1890 , the courts had decided that if a person took any share in the profits of a business this made that person a partner . |
| 23 | This made geographical sense : both valleys drain west to the River Lune and the Irish Sea and are separated from the rest of Yorkshire by the barrier of the Pennines ; nevertheless , the breaking of traditional ties was not to the liking of all the inhabitants . |
| 24 | Coupled with under-funding , this made commercial software development unattractive and many of the major educational publishing companies such as Heinemann , Longman , Oxford University Press , and Macmillan , who had initially invested heavily in software development , eventually retrenched or withdrew from their activities . |
| 25 | All this made interesting reading over breakfast , but it did n't seem to advance the hunt for Andrew Stavanger . |
| 26 | Finally , and this returns us to Kumar 's statements , it is unlikely that with the elimination of the scarcity of resources — and this made cultural direction incredibly simple — and the internationalization of media productions a nation can ever maintain its defensive walls unbreached . |
| 27 | None of this made any sense — none of it . |
| 28 | e.g. " Combined with the NEP and the thaw in Russia 's relations with other countries , this made some Bolsheviks fear the onset of a creeping reaction ; they were haunted by fears of Thermidor " . |
| 29 | Although this made less appeal to Chinese taste than paler varieties , it was found useful for feeding a growing export market to the west . |
| 30 | After victory over China in 1895 made territorial control a reality , the haphazard search for political and economic influence ( direct or indirect ) of earlier years became a systematic one , in which emulation of Western imperialism was seen as both practicable and desirable . |