Example sentences of "[noun pl] made [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 2 | ULSTER boxers made a strong claim for an monopoly of the titles in the Maxol National Junior championship semi-finals at the National Stadium last night . |
| 3 | There may be some weathering her and there After a few weeks which to Willis , however , seemed like a few years , the broker 's solicitors made a conditional offer for the poor old barge , and finally agreed to pay £1500 , provided that Dreadnought was still in shipshape condition six months hence , in the spring of 1962 . |
| 4 | The air raids were commonly known as the Baedeker Raids , after a publishing house that produced travel guides , because the Germans made a sudden switch from bombing major cities , industrial and military targets and bombed cities that did not have anything remotely possible connected with any major war effort . |
| 5 | The Germans made a thin capillary out of palladium , heated it red-hot and diffused hydrogen through it . |
| 6 | We might think that ‘ Naxos ’ in Cantos 2 , 24 , and 78 is the place of that name beneath Taormina , the site ( lately and partially excavated ) of the earliest Greek colony in Sicily , and thereafter the port whence the teams from all the Sicilian Greek cities made a ceremonial departure to compete in the Olympic Games ; but the Annotated Index is doubtless right to identify Naxos , on the contrary , with an island in the Aegean . |
| 7 | During their researches , however , the Canadians made an important discovery . |
| 8 | If this seems fast , consider that Armand Charlet guided Wilfred Noyce down this 1,500 metre AD descent in two hours in the 1950s , and I do n't imagine that either of these great climbers made a single unsteady step throughout . |
| 9 | The availability of legal aid to those unable to afford to pursue their legal rights in the courts made a practical reality of the access to justice to many who could not have afforded to do so . |
| 10 | As we shall see in subsequent chapters , a wide range of managerial decision making was subject to ministerial intervention , while over substantial areas of ‘ general ’ policy ministerial views made no significant impact . |
| 11 | It is also the final of the Marley National Pony Society Mountain and Moorland Ridden Championships , and thirty quality native ponies made a splendid sight in the vast Grand Hall . |
| 12 | This was reflected in the prices paid for the average in-calf and maiden heifer , which at times made no more than a good commercial first-calver at Carlisle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A few years ago I and my two sons made an amazing discovery — a discovery we shared with a few of our colleagues here . |
| 16 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 17 | On the militarist question , there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made a significant contribution to the growth of the war mentality , although the early movement was nearly torn apart by the question of militarism which eventually led to break-away groups such as the Woodcraft Folk . |
| 18 | But there can be no doubt that the Boy Scouts made an extraordinary impact on the era . |
| 19 | 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey . |
| 20 | The term continues until determined as if both parties made a new agreement at the end of each year for a new term for the ensuing year . |
| 21 | Lord Donaldson was suggesting that the parties made an informed decision that the matter had to be referred to arbitration on the basis that they had a formulated dispute where their rights and obligations were to be determined . |
| 22 | On the evidence of the autumn action — and last summer 's Lions tour to which Scots made a huge contribution — Scotland can win the championship , especially as they play their ‘ difficult ’ games against France and England at Murrayfield . |
| 23 | His eyes made a comprehensive sweep of her and she realised belatedly that , in the hangover from her nightmare , she had forgotten her own state of undress . |
| 24 | His dark hair and eyes made a good foil for Breeze , whose skin was very fair , and whose short brown curls gleamed like raw silk in the strong morning sunshine . |
| 25 | His eyes made a swift study of her face , before he cast a glance at the sky . |
| 26 | His eyes made a significant dip and he waited a couple of beats before adding , ‘ And the kind of body which has been known to drive men wild . |
| 27 | His eyes made an incredible journey . |
| 28 | At about the same time , French units made a diversionary landing at Kum Kale on the Asiatic side of the strait to confuse the Turks as to the Allies ' true intentions . |
| 29 | D.W. Griffiths made ‘ The Birth of a Nation ’ and the O'Neil brothers made a down-town night-club out of Rafferty 's Bar . |
| 30 | Much of what we saw related discouragingly to familiar bad habits , a thought that occurred , not for the first time , to George Cohen , who for the benefit of younger readers made a notable contribution to the history of English football when turning out in the 1966 World Cup final . |