Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Donkeys saluted our passing with those howls of anguish that had made maiden ladies establish animal sanctuaries in Cairo between the wars . |
| 2 | It had a breathless untidiness , with an underlying stratum of solid good things : expensive carpets and curtains in dark plain colours , antique furniture ranging from valuable to junk , but having in common a charm or whimsicality that had made each piece claim her attention originally . |
| 3 | According to one modern historian , their " systematic destruction of all that had made western Europe a going concern economically " marked the definitive break between the sub-Roman and medieval worlds . |
| 4 | The patient , domestic acts performed in this country of fogs and mists that had made English murderers the doyens of the civilized globe . |
| 5 | Mary Hammond-Heath had distinguished herself as junior to a QC in a fraud case that had made national headlines , and was inclined to regard the Bouveries ' life as an excellent test case for some of her theories . |
| 6 | Practice that had made these things second nature to the T'ang . |
| 7 | At a banquet held in his honour in the Chinese capital Beijing , his host , Lu Ping , Director of the Hong Kong and Macao Affairs Office of China 's State Council , referred to Wilson as " our old friend " who , over the years , had made unremitting efforts to promote mutual trust and co-operation between the UK and China on the Hong Kong issue , on the basis of the Sino-British Joint Declaration , and had made useful contributions to the stability and prosperity of Hong Kong . |
| 8 | Lacking adequate finance , information and technical expertise , and saddled with a piece of legislation riddled with loopholes and contradictions , the Institute was faced with an impossible task and had made little headway by the time the political climate changed in autumn 1933 . |
| 9 | We found that in the long term a little under a third of the participating teachers had been significantly influenced by what they had heard and seen and had made major changes in their classroom practice as a result . |
| 10 | Her parents had had the sense to realise how unhappy she was , and had made alternative arrangements . |
| 11 | He had spent most of the day talking to the people of the exiled Court and had made copious notes . |
| 12 | She has been recuperating from the shoulder wound at the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic and had made enough progress to prompt speculation that she might , after all , be fit to defend her French Open title . |
| 13 | Ulster 's Lord Chief Justice Hutton said Christie had carefully planned the murder and had made sustained efforts to evade being caught , showing that her ‘ residual mental responsibility was very considerable . ’ . |
| 14 | He had become a political exile in France in October 1990 , and had made public statements to the effect that he would not return to Albania until democracy had been restored there [ see p. 37792 ] . |
| 15 | Chairman Judith Eyles said : ‘ You were responding to an acute emergency and had made considerable efforts to avoid driving . ’ |
| 16 | A Lake Chad Basin commission with representatives of Chad , Cameroon , Nigeria and Niger ( which all bordered on the lake ) had been established in 1964 but had made little progress . |