Example sentences of "[noun] made [pron] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faldo took his 1992 winnings to a world record £1.5m , while Norman 's only consolation was that the £190,234 runner's-up cheque made him the first player in history to breech the $10 million barrier in career earnings . |
| 2 | Eleven years later the World Federation of the Deaf at the seventh Congress in Washington awarded him an International Solidarity Merit Award , and Gallaudet College , taking advantage of his presence made him the first recipient of a medallion for " outstanding international service to the deaf " , which he received at a special convention attended by the Vice-President of the United States . |
| 3 | He was never equal to Self in Citrine 's esteem , and he remained jealous of intervention by Self in matters of engineering and the development of policy on the generation side , for which his background and experience made him the natural senior voice among other engineers and managers . |
| 4 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 5 | So his political background and other skills made him the logical candidate ’ . |
| 6 | Sussex , though , are unlikely to be among the cynical chorus , not after their slip-up against the Minor Counties on a Marlow marsh made them the 14th first-class county in 55– or 6–overs play to have their colours lowered by junior opposition . |
| 7 | He was immediately dispatched to the scene , where his energy , intelligence and presence of mind made him the chief decision-taker in the first days after the explosion of reactor number four . |
| 8 | The impressive hardware , the ( rather primitive ) motion-control techniques , and the startling light effects made it the biggest single breakthrough . |
| 9 | In Soho , hell-bent on a good time , her tremendous vitality made her the female counterpart of Minton . |
| 10 | However , although Leese 's virulent anti-semitism and racial fascist beliefs made him the nearest equivalent in outlook to an English Hitler , his personality and attitude to leadership were very different . |
| 11 | Atlantic City 's vast beach and boardwalk made it the American seaside resort of the nineteenth century . |
| 12 | Kenneth Horne 's rich , fruity voice and warm patrician manner made him the ideal link man and that , coupled with a mischievous sense of humour , ensured that any programme in which he was involved was the better for his presence . |
| 13 | On top of that , scoring the third in the 3–1 win over the Sky Blues made him the youngest scorer of a First Division goal . |
| 14 | Jamie Spence 's win in the Canon European Masters made him the sixth first-time winner on this season 's Volvo Tour . |
| 15 | The State made him the ecclesiastical head of the Church of England by trampling on the opinions of the relevant ecclesiastical authority . |
| 16 | The king 's favour made him the special target of the reforming Ordainers , who in 1311 called for the exclusion from court of both Henry and Isabella , the resumption of his grants from the king , and the transference of the custody of Man to ‘ a good Englishman ’ ( a phrase which reveals one reason for his unpopularity ) . |
| 17 | Her population , geographical position , army and industrial strength made her the leading continental nation . |
| 18 | His extrovert personality made him the ideal host at the company 's restaurants . |
| 19 | Il Moro won , becoming the first challenger to claim a finals place , while Nippon 's loss to New Zealand made her the first to be eliminated . |
| 20 | IN THE beginning there was John Mortimer QC , waxing lyrical about the great ideals of the 1945 Labour government and judging that its commitment to the welfare state and social equality made it the greatest this century . |
| 21 | ( George 's conviction made him the first high-ranking member of the CIA ever to be convicted of felony offences while conducting official duties . ) |
| 22 | James Brown made it the perfunctory Single Of The Week and concentrated mainly on the depth of lyrical content . |
| 23 | DAVID Sinclair made himself the ideal employee when he filled in an application form for a sales job , a court heard yesterday . |
| 24 | Sawle acknowledged this on the eve of the final Test when , asked to defend the dumping of Marsh , he made the point that it had been the bowlers — Craig McDermott ( whose 31 wickets made him the highest Australian wicket-taker in a series against India ) , Bruce Reid ( a wrecker in the second Test before breaking down again ) and Merv Hughes — who had been the key figures throughout the series . |
| 25 | By 1225 the loss of Poitiers and La Rochelle made it the effective capital of the remaining Plantagenet dominions . |
| 26 | It was by conquest that the Danish King Cnut made himself the first king of a truly united England in the early eleventh century . |