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

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1 However , recent trends in farming practice have made agriculture even more incompatible with uncontrolled recreation .
2 The other appointments were Lee Dong Ho , who became Home Affairs Minister , Kang Hyon Wook who was made Agriculture , Forestry and Fisheries Minister , and Noh Won Il who became Transport Minister .
3 Literally translated , euthanasia means ‘ easy death ’ — but there is nothing easy about ending the life of a patient for whom pain has made existence intolerable .
4 He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention .
5 He had been active in south Wales under Edward IV , being made chamberlain there in 1479 , and it may have been this which brought him to Gloucester 's attention .
6 She lived in the Palestinian camp at Rashidiyeh , a wretched four square miles of breeze-block huts and cabins relieved only by the occasional tree , a straggling plant hanging from a poorly made brick wall and an open sewer that snaked uneasily down the centre of the mud roads .
7 She points to cutbacks in beds and says the full complement for acute mental patients should be made avaialble .
8 ( Our word derives from the French jonches or rushes , one of the numerous old French names for freshly made milk cheese drained in rushes or a rush basket . )
9 It was chaotic , true , but Corman 's pictures always made money and that was the way everyone was judged .
10 He had made money from his movie The Wild Angels and now he wanted to prove he could do something worthwhile .
11 Engineer Charles Stratton 's claim to have been ‘ the only person to have made money from such a machine ’ is difficult to substantiate .
12 For us , the Ceramics Fair has always made money and for a dealer that is the most important reason to return year after year .
13 Having it in their hands never made money their own .
14 Baldwin had a profound distaste for those who had made money out of the war and in 1919 he made an anonymous donation of part of his wealth to the nation as his personal sacrifice ; Neville Chamberlain was greatly affected by the death of his cousin Norman and determined that such sacrifice should not be wasted .
15 Our objective is to see whether we would have made money on those or not .
16 There was people that actually made money from it , oh they made money .
17 The journal apparently never made money for Crookes after all , but it kept his name before the public ; and being an editor does give some power , patronage and influence .
18 It was a phrase often used by her mother to describe women whose husbands had made money and moved to Edgbaston .
19 The business men and boffins here have made money moving people from A to B across the globe , but very few of the governments they 've advised have ever tried to privatize their railways , and none have tried in quite the manner Mr MacGregor proposes .
20 I , I know I agree with the committee but on the year we have actually made money , is that right ?
21 The actual show has actually made money .
22 Mr Bell said : ‘ The people who really matter are the businessmen who make wealth , these people just made money .
23 and that 's what I 'm gon na be aiming to do , if it , if I break even in two years I 'd be happy cos I 've made money back and then I 'll be making profit after that , and you wo n't make it back in the first year , no way
24 Where broad discretionary powers have been conferred upon public authorities the courts take it upon themselves to review the exercise of those powers to ensure that the body does not make decisions which are so unreasonable that no reasonable body could have come to such a decision ; to ensure that the decision-makers are not biased and that decisions are not made mala fide or for any improper purpose .
25 In 1928 , when Cosmo Lang was made Archbishop of Canterbury and went for his first royal audience , the King remarked that he hoped he would stop the clergy wearing moustaches .
26 Of the promotions made under Cnut , nothing can be said of the origins of Ælfric II of Elmham , Leofgar of Lichfield , Brihtmær of Lichfield and Æthelric of Selsey , or of the reasons why Ælfric Puttoc , the praepositus of Winchester , was made archbishop of York in 1023 .
27 A hotel owner has made rail enthusiasts the offer of a lifetime … to learn to drive their own steam engine .
28 I did all those movies because they were the only work I could get , ’ Nicholson said in a frank assessment of his next few years of acting roles on the fringes of Hollywood , appearing almost entirely in low-cost , quickly made horror films , and what were then called teenage exploitation pictures , mostly with Roger Corman .
29 Looking further ahead , Mr Garnett has made provision for using refillable plastic cartridges of chemical with his device .
30 Building contractors and employers soon became aware that the contracts into which they had entered no longer made provision for those situations which were beginning to arise : but new standard forms were slow to emerge , and it is only in recent years that these have proliferated .
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