Example sentences of "[adv] make [pers pn] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The third John Booth provided much of the capital for his partners , Samuel and Aaron Walker , when they established the business that eventually made them the leading ironmasters in the North of England . |
| 2 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 3 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 4 | This only makes it the more significant that contempt and disdain were very far from the whole story of foreign attitudes , and where they were expressed there was normally some particular reason for it . |
| 5 | Moving to Guildford , Leese 's fanaticism and his willingness to devote all his time and resources to the new movement soon made him the fulcrum of racial nationalist activity in Britain . |
| 6 | His name has already made him the butt of many jokes . |
| 7 | His reward came in July 1655 when Carvajal and his two sons were endenizened , thus making him the first English Jew , at least since the expulsion in 1290 . |
| 8 | Their cornucopian haul was to realise more than £10,000 in bills and banknotes , thus making it the largest highway robbery yet to be achieved . |
| 9 | During World War Two over 20,000 DFCs were awarded , with 1,550 first bars and 42 second bars , thus making it the most frequent gallantry award of the War . |
| 10 | Arsenal 's mastery of the First Division was already making them the best-loved , best-hated club . |
| 11 | they 're about the same , so when the hundred gram bar has got the extra ten per cent it 's it 's just just makes it the better bargain , er , they 're not losing much on that cos they save on the wrapping , so it probably costs them the same |
| 12 | However that may be , Cnut 's considerable generosity to Canterbury implies that he did have good relations with Æthelnoth , and this possibly made him the more determined to control the selection of his successor . |
| 13 | By common consent Murphy comes over as easy-going , but behind that there is a sharpness that even he admits does n't always make him the easiest person to work for . |
| 14 | Wayne 's grandparents , Ken and Pat Peckham , paid just £1,700 for Champ whose marathon exploits quickly made him the people 's champion . |
| 15 | Tories , long , short and tall , queued with the stoicism that had once made us the envy of the world . |
| 16 | This still makes it the one serious , widespread offence in which the rate of female offenders is nearly equivalent to the rate of male offenders , as the table on page 49 illustrates . |
| 17 | This also made him the winner of the European League of the World Cup , with the final in Del Mar , California , on April 15–19 as his next major task . |
| 18 | Ethel ran out of the door with the frightening single-mindedness that later made her the most successful Tiller Girl . |
| 19 | Edo mushroomed from the late sixteenth century and had an estimated population of around one million by the mid-eighteenth century , probably making it the largest city in the world at the time . |
| 20 | Lewis fuses a blend of soul , jazz and rock to haunting effect which may well make him the hottest new talent since Seal . |
| 21 | Small but perfectly put together — that 's sassy Current Account , a compact A4 publication distributed three or four times a year to a circulation below 1,000 , which might well make it the least-read of any of the winners in the Editing for Industry competition . |
| 22 | I might as well make it the whole way . |
| 23 | The former England Under-21 international , 23 last Tuesday , has been intrumental in the Norfolk club 's surprise position at the top of the table with his 12 goals , arguably making him the buy of the season . |
| 24 | Gerrit Viljoen , hitherto Minister of Constitutional Development , was appointed to the newly created post of Minister of State Affairs , effectively making him the State President 's deputy . |
| 25 | Within this region up to 350,000 sq km would be owned outright by its Inuit inhabitants , thereby making them the largest private landlords in the world . |
| 26 | Beardsley , meanwhile , produced a performance of such craft , guile and wisdom that it could yet make him the saviour of England manager Graham Taylor — if only he would pick him . |
| 27 | At a conference organized in June 1950 by the Liturgical Institute of Trier , a lecture by Romano Guardini led to a resolution calling upon the German bishops to request Rome to move the long Holy Saturday service from the early morning to the late evening , thus again making it the vigil service it once had been . |
| 28 | ‘ Which presumably makes me the better teacher , ’ he returned with a dryness that made her want to pummel him with her fists from sheer frustration . |
| 29 | Solitude , darkness , or the horrible crowd which one sees always in such places as this never make me the least afraid … . |