Example sentences of "[unc] [noun] made [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 There may be some weathering her and there After a few weeks which to Willis , however , seemed like a few years , the broker 's solicitors made a conditional offer for the poor old barge , and finally agreed to pay £1500 , provided that Dreadnought was still in shipshape condition six months hence , in the spring of 1962 .
2 The 18-year-old 's enthusiasm made the first and third chances for Hendrie after 51 and 66 minutes .
3 But there was no semblance of a fluke about the result — it was the fastest Gold Cup ever run — and as Norton 's Coin made the long walk past the stands to the winner 's enclosure he started to receive the reception he deserved .
4 The court held that the tendering of the delivery note was another counter-offer , and that the defendant 's employee made a further counter-offer when he over-stamped the delivery note and signed it .
5 The Society 's President made an official visit to Tokyo in March , following up the EC/Japan Conference on Legal Services , a multi-lateral forum seeking to relax restrictions on foreign legal practice in Japan .
6 There were letters from the boy here in his closet , no more than a week old , cold-blooded enough in their analysis of the military situation since Grey 's loss , and ruthless enough in their acceptance of the necessity to deal in extremes in the last resort , but still arguing the advantage of restraint , even daring to suggest that Lord Grey 's capture made no substantial alteration in the case for negotiation , since he was the original party to the complaint which had never actually come to a judgment under law .
7 Perhaps knowing the likely outcome , New Scientist 's editor made a pathetic excuse about being in Canada at the time and dropped one of his old colleagues into — and swiftly out of — the balloon .
8 Commenting on the Arens statement the Middle East Economic Digest of Dec. 22 said that " the PLO 's apparent approval of Cairo 's move made the Egyptian government an unacceptable interlocutor for Tel Aviv " .
9 Sec. 's team made a strong run at the post and just pipped Russell Mulford 's team for second place .
10 Even mentioning the marquis 's name made the dull ache inside Topaz worse .
11 Old man Riddle was cracked on religion and the old lady 's father made a small fortune out of rabbit skins .
12 Harriet Taylor 's theories made a major impact on Mill , and led to their mutual conception and drafting of On Liberty ( 1859 ) .
13 The Queen 's cousin made a public plea to construction giant Trafalgar House not to demolish the last hangar at Brooklands in Weybridge , Surrey .
14 Billy Bingham 's men made the perfect start with a goal after just 14 minutes from Jim Magilton .
15 In those early days , its isolation on the distant north-west coast seemed to make it unattainable by anyone who had only feet to get him there and whose opportunities were restricted by a busy working life south of the Border , although later I was to discover that a MacBrayne 's bus made the forty-six-mile journey to and from Lairg every weekday .
16 Lissa 's stomach made a strange somersault .
17 The collapse of Duke John 's position made an English response inevitable .
18 Rosa 's mother made a rare interruption : as annual leaseholders , they too owed tithes to the landowner .
19 Police said : ‘ A man who appeared to know the baby 's mother made an anonymous call just after midnight from a kiosk in the village . ’
20 Many prisoners of war were now arriving in Liverpool and the girls in Sarah 's office made a large Welcome Home banner .
21 Tug 's throat made a strange , clicking noise and the Woman 's shadowy hand clutched at his .
22 The Queen 's workmen made a special bedroom for me .
23 SCOTTISH lawyers ' leaders made a blistering attack on changes to the civil legal aid system yesterday , declaring that access to justice for about 250,000 people will be severely restricted .
24 The parents ' lawyers made the same points .
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