Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] made the " in BNC.

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1 This practice made the clay into a more workable material , improved the firing qualities as well as making economic use of the materials readily available on the farm .
2 Like Jean Rhys 's fictional Englishmen , these real ones were taught early to rely on reason and suppress their feelings , and this opposition made the struggle of their lives .
3 This issue made the front page on the Daily Mail as well as its editorial .
4 The first speaker who was here at this rostrum made the point about er , the right of individuals and it 's not in the rulebook .
5 Mistakes of this sort made the movement many enemies and hastened its demise to the fairground , and having one 's bumps read for sixpence .
6 This gulf made the formation and manipulation of a specifically Polish identity in Pomerania very difficult .
7 This supposition made the marriage bar popular in the press , and accounted for the weakness of an occupational group such as married women teachers , whose position could not be accounted for in terms of lower levels of skill or poor unionisation .
8 This emphasis made the so-called ‘ monologic ’ forms of literature problematical , and Lodge quotes from an interesting late essay by Bakhtin which seems to suggest that all literary discourse is to some degree dialogic .
9 And I sha n't come back until I remember what the great Daybog said , " This news made the old man very sad , for he loved Yanek the best of his three grandsons .
10 THIS LEASE made the day of One thousand nine hundred and eighty-seven between Albert Hardcastle of The Gamekeeper 's Cottage Highfields near Scunthorpe in the County of Humberside Farmer ( hereinafter called the Landlord ) of the one part and Adam Swannson of 1 Delderfield Close The Kentish Hexagon near Westerham Kent Haulier ( hereinafter called the Tenant ) of the other part WITNESSETH as follows :
11 Another speaker made the point that the House was being asked to give power over the press to the presidency , not merely to its present incumbent , President Nyerere , who , he said , could be trusted not to abuse his power .
12 This indenture made the 12th daye of June , the 20th yere of the Rayne of Kynge Harry the 8th .
13 This indenture made the [ twentieth ] day of September in the five and twentieth yeare of the reigne of our Soverayne Lord Charles the Second by the grace of God of England Scotland France and Ireland Kinge ...
14 In a trance-like state he re-climbed the wall and this time made the top , in pain but without further incident .
15 If the accounts of British politics between 1832 and 1867 pointed to the sovereignty of Parliament , then the accounts that came to the fore after that period made the additional point that the sovereignty of the people was behind this and was now of the constitutional and political essence .
16 I was there the night that Madame made the first move in what I now see was a careful campaign to prepare Boy for this romance or meeting .
17 Just that thought made the energy surge through her .
18 It was while reading an article about frozen food packaging equipped with a warning patch which changed colour as the food melted , that Wotherspoon made the connection which lies at the root of all great inventions : why not a climbing rope which changed colour after it had been stressed ?
19 It was in 1975 that Congress made the SEC set up a National Market System for securities , which required efficient execution of transactions , fair competition among broker-dealers and the availability of price quotes .
20 The same edition made the unfortunate error of substituting ‘ condemneth ’ for ‘ commendeth ’ in the St. Mark xii paraphrase ‘ Christ commendeth the poore widdow . ’
21 I 'm not sure whether 40 years later , the same mechanism made the word ‘ capitalism ’ popular among the people ; the Leipzig demonstrations suggest that in Saxony , at least , it may have done .
22 They can never take that championship away for us , and at the same time made the scum pay the ultimate price ( he-he-he ) .
23 She looked as if she had been kissed thoroughly — her fair hair was tangled , her lips full and red , and even her own blushing made the point clearer .
24 In the face of recessionary gloom , Potton 's have just had their two most successful years ; in 1990 they sold 250 units , but those who built that year made the original commitment — such as finding land and seeking planning permission — several years earlier .
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