Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] made [noun] " in BNC.

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1 And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes .
2 DP supporters nevertheless made accusations of ballot-rigging in the March 31 polling .
3 It was chaotic , true , but Corman 's pictures always made money and that was the way everyone was judged .
4 Many of the new parties also made calls for further political reforms .
5 That was how prospective clients often made contact , since Mala and I made the ship our home and office , in space , much of the time .
6 The Master of the Merchant Venturers graciously made Merchants Hall available for these dinners , the first of which was organised for the Faculty of Medicine .
7 There is no evidence that the Ismaili Assassins ever made contact with the Crusaders in the relatively short history of the sect .
8 At some stage , in general , elements formerly made zero will again become nonzero , though usually smaller than before .
9 During this period contractors frequently made payments in cash and individual sub-contractors changed their names from time to time to avoid detection by Inland Revenue inspectors .
10 The need to guard against desertion had considerable influence even on the development of tactics ; and governments naturally made efforts to repress a practice which so obviously threatened the strength and morale of their armies .
11 Clockwise from left : Mister C sports specially made Shamen T-shirt and pagan symbol pendant ; Houston 's progressive house fans file into the Shamen Hallowe'en ‘ rave ’ at the Tower Theater ; dancer from support band Utah Saints gets into Ebeneezer garb and joins The Shamen on stage for ‘ Ebeneezer Goode ’
12 One of the younger adopted children she had known at school , a very charming and beautiful girl of Indian parentage , some years later made contact with her again , and they talked about fashions and make-up together .
13 WIN.INI is the more important one because applications often made changes here .
14 At Yalta , the two states also made progress in other aspects of their bilateral relations , building on their June negotiations in Dagomys [ see p. 38973 ] .
15 Rather , town planning became involved in other environmental and social concerns almost by chance , though its claim for a comprehensive , synoptic view of things perhaps made expansionism inevitable .
16 JACs and juvenile employment committees also made use of COS methodology and volunteers , who brought with them experience of working with young people .
17 Mr. Jones : Although investment may be rising , surely the industrialists also made representations about the rise in interest rates and the cost of borrowing ?
18 Yet Marx and Engels ' determination to formulate general theories eventually made Marxism one of the most successful transnational ideologies .
19 Ambition and power could not be swayed by love or foolish dreams , and the message was not lost on Rachel as she faced the reality of her marriage now that the honeymoon — how clichés suddenly made sense ! — was over .
20 The proposed amendments also made provision for the appointment of a Deputy Governor who would replace the Permanent Secretary for Finance as a member of the Executive Council and of the House of Assembly .
21 No such partnership arrangements extended to the second category of districts , though they were invited to draw up programmes ; in the case of the third category , local authorities simply made use of the powers of the Act .
22 The Games just made Variety 's famous list of Twentieth Century-Fox Top 10 disasters , weighing in at No.10 , with a $2,000,000 loss .
23 Joachim 's idea of a completely unworldly religious order nearly found expression in the confraternity that began to form around the followers of St Francis of Assisi shortly after Joachim 's death , but the main body of Franciscans soon made concessions to the demands of everyday life .
24 The leaders also made peace over the Gatt talks , Britain 's delay in ratifying Maastricht and the row surrounding the pound 's withdrawal from the ERM .
25 Accompanying attacks on American bases at Guam and Wake Island led to their capture ; Japanese forces also made landings in the Philippines .
26 But the answers never made sense and the fact remained , whatever she had chosen to believe Mark had simply walked out on her and not bothered to come back .
27 The architects duly made economies , although they were dismayed that these had to include the reduction to a dwarf wall of the high wall intended for the street side of the car park because they felt that the omission of a high wall at this point would detract from the character of Rotherhithe Street .
28 The president of a village tribunal in another Low Country district reported that peasants often made use of ritual to solve minor disputes .
29 Even when the docks and wharves were quiet the local carmen often made detours so they could eat at Bradley 's Dining Rooms .
30 There the evidence before him merely disclosed that the defendants whilst being employed by the plaintiffs simply made plans or preparations for their future post termination activities .
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