Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] made the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | carried out an experiment in which four- , eight- , and twelve-year-olds were asked to indicate which member of a pair of blocks had made the other block move . |
| 2 | In a 1981 report , the committee noted that the use of historic costs had made the resulting figures ‘ highly misleading as a guide to past investment decisions and entirely useless for appraising future ones ’ . |
| 3 | He and colleagues reviewed 70 referral letters from general practitioners and , not surprisingly , found that only 27% of the general practitioners had made the correct diagnosis . |
| 4 | He told his fellow prisoners of an attack on a colonial settlement where the creatures had made the same noises just before they raided and massacred the colonists . |
| 5 | Some member states , for example , were beginning to register large trade deficits while West Germany 's trade surplus continued to grow to embarrassingly large proportions : these discrepancies had made the national governments more interested in the idea of an economic union with coordinated monetary and budgetary policies . |
| 6 | Gloucester magistrates had made the original fine in his absence without knowledge of his limited means , the crown court was told . |