Example sentences of "[adj] [vb past] made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 No deals for hostages I could understand , yet the French had made future business and full diplomatic relations conditional on their hostages being freed and no more being taken .
2 In the case-studies of 15 boards it was clear that half had made significant progress .
3 None of this suggested that the English would go forward to build up the most wide-ranging empire that the world had ever seen , and even if Hakluyt had added that the English had made some attempts to settle in North America and had organized themselves for trade in the East Indies he would not have much altered the case .
4 By late afternoon the FT-SE 100 had made some progress and closed 26.2 up at 2732.4 , with news of the GATT deal coming after the end of trading .
5 Both Edward I and Edward II had made substantial use of the traditional feudal levy for raising an army , summoning all tenants-in-chief of the crown to serve unpaid with a set quota of men for forty days .
6 Vortigern The Thin had made foolish deals with Saxon invaders who 'd double-crossed him and occupied major cities and plundered the countryside .
7 Gen. Lebed had made controversial statements in July on the role of Russia 's armed forces outside the Russian Federation [ see p. 39019 ] .
8 They agreed to extend the aid programme ( already applying to Hungary and Poland ) to Bulgaria , Czechoslovakia , Yugoslavia and ( pending unification ) East Germany , on the grounds that all four had made sufficient progress towards democracy and a free market economy .
9 Both had made previous flights to Fairbanks on the Irkutsk-Fairbanks ferry run and hoped one day to see more of America than the tundra regions of Alaska .
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