Example sentences of "[adv] made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fellow suddenly made strange gestures with his fingers . |
| 2 | Here we go and that is that , up to now , erm we 've only made six beams , we 've got to reach , for these tanks , we want to make sixty and the problem is we 're on stop now redesign the whole thing and going on the present rate of production we 're going to go up to about week twenty-eight . |
| 3 | He 'd only made two twists when he stopped , listening . |
| 4 | The SPD polled an average of 26.64 per cent ( 21.88 per cent in March 1990 ) , but apparently only made real inroads on CDU support in Brandenburg , with the respected East Berlin lay Protestant leader and lawyer Manfred Stolpe heading its campaign against the CDU 's Peter-Michael Diestel ( who had been criticized for his handling of the dissolution of the Stasi secret police — see p. 37828 ) . |
| 5 | He really was brought up in his tracks , and said , when he brought her home , well if that only made one person think , it 's been worth it . |
| 6 | Until yesterday the favourite to partner McMahon had been the 22-year-old Michael Thomas of Arsenal , who has only made one appearance for England : a disappointing debut in Saudi Arabia late last year . |
| 7 | She not only made Black Women in Britain professional artists , but also suggested , by our active support for our creativity , that any Black woman could be an artist . |
| 8 | But financial liberalisation and the greater integration of the world economy have not only made current-account deficits easier to sustain ; they have also made trade flows less useful as an indicator of national competitiveness . |
| 9 | She had obviously made some attempt to tidy up . |
| 10 | Paolo personally made tiny cups of rich , dark , aromatic coffee ‘ a la Italia ’ , almost worth a trip in itself ! |
| 11 | Reed had called Jesse to book on his ‘ New York ’ album over the Rainbow Coalition leader 's alleged reluctance to condemn the anti-Semitic utterances of black Muslim leader Louis Farrakhan , and sure enough made pointed reference to this particular troubled racial undercurrent in an America riven by the Reagan-Bush years ' divisive culture . |
| 12 | She was taking off her chocolate sweater and was all twisted up , a rather thin but nicely made young girl with a delicate , withdrawn face , against a wall of dark red roses . |
| 13 | In small , nicely made wooden drums there were new potatoes no larger than damsons . |
| 14 | While their Cup displays have rightly made national headlines , their mediocre League form has taken them to within one point of the bottom . |
| 15 | It 's commonly held that instruments are generally better made these days — even the cheap ones — and one of the prime benefits of this is that the purchaser has a better than even chance of buying a worthwhile instrument , regardless of cost . |
| 16 | The call was apparently made two weeks before Diana was taped in a phone call with her close friend James Gilbey . |
| 17 | The fact that voters think Mr Major has not campaigned impressively has apparently made little difference to their view of him as Prime Minister and party leader . |
| 18 | As the gold backing for the dollar crumbled in the 1960s , the United States increased its pressure on central banks not to join private speculators in demanding gold ; in 1967 West Germany issued a formal declaration undertaking not to ‘ cash in ’ its dollars for gold , and most other countries , with the notable exception of France , apparently made unofficial statements to the same effect . |
| 19 | The coming of the railways literally made possible resorts like Skegness and Rhyl ; conversely , the lack of a rail link retarded Eastbourne 's development . |
| 20 | Thus , as Statement E argues , under certain conditions white workers or residents may get together to freeze out black immigrants because their presence is felt to depress wages or house prices , or to threaten allocation policies which have hitherto made certain jobs or housing the preserve of the indigenous population . |
| 21 | The protest vote theory , though valid , was not sufficient to explain why 2 million adults took the trouble to vote for organic smallholders and kindred green souls who had hitherto made little impression on the political scene . |
| 22 | Dan Pohl , Larry Mize and even Ben Crenshaw all made hopeless hashes of the last hole , Eamonn Darcy holed the putt of his life , Ballesteros was obsessively snuffing out Strange and shortly after that something nice took place in the woodshed . |
| 23 | Works by Laurence Broderick , Nicola Hicks , Kate Braine , Kevin Sinnott and Ian Davenport all made first appearances with varying degrees of success . |
| 24 | To begin with the efficacy of parliamentary control , it is clear that it suffers from the federal constitution itself : the intricacy of policy decisions , complex inter-governmental decision-making structures at the national , sub-national and supranational level , and the inherent complexity of new policy areas , have all made parliamentary scrutiny more difficult . |
| 25 | Politicians , pundits and royal watchers have all made public comment on the private life of Charles and Diana . |
| 26 | Monetary inflation , falling demand and rising fuel and running costs have all made public transport much more expensive to provide in rural areas . |
| 27 | Well I just wondered if turning it down made any difference . |
| 28 | But the company alone made important business investigations and decisions . |
| 29 | Good work by Martin Strutt supported by Stephen McKinty led to a scrum on the Banbridge line and when they failed to clear Michael Long made good ground down the right touch line before slipping the ball inside to full back Mark Tinman who scored at the corner after seven minutes . |
| 30 | The deluge of letters that continued to arrive in the Social Work Department eventually made personal replies an impossible task for the Department . |