Example sentences of "[noun pl] made a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The Germans made a thin capillary out of palladium , heated it red-hot and diffused hydrogen through it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | His eyes made a swift study of her face , before he cast a glance at the sky . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Crusaders Reserves made a winning start to their B Division Section Two campaign on Saturday . |
| 20 | His lobster telephone and pouting lips made a rare appearance . |
| 21 | I hear him not answering from where I lie above them with my ear to a hole that the rats made a long , long time ago . |
| 22 | Three stab wounds made a neat triangular pattern on his chest . |
| 23 | Michael Bentley suggests that the actions of the Conservative leaders were deliberate for the , ‘ Conservatives made a conscious attempt to eradicate all traces of policy in order to appear stolid and silhouette Lloyd George as a very dangerous thing . ’ |
| 24 | On May 5 the judges made a formal application for their immunity to be lifted . |
| 25 | The airport duties made a pleasant change for a few of our lads , and one of them was offered a helicopter flight to the rigs one day . |
| 26 | ‘ Your parents made a good-looking couple , did n't they ? ’ |
| 27 | Years later her parents made a sworn statement testifying that the couple had met in July 1917 . |
| 28 | They walked along by the harbour , where the tall masts and the draped fishing nets made a dramatic backcloth as the men prepared for their nightly trip out , working on the nets and the sailing gear by the light of lanterns , and with much singing and swearing and good-natured banter . |
| 29 | The stoicism with which the Masai endured the harsh circumstances of their lives made a deep impression on the British , and the opportunity to share that hard life and thus to display to some extent their own possession of this admirable quality was part of Masailand 's attraction for many Englishmen . |
| 30 | Initially it was not entirely clear how they , or other British units further west along the frontier , should be expected to respond if the Croats made a concerted advance further into Austria . |