Example sentences of "[noun pl] made the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 2 | The Times made the suggested link their front-page headline — Porn videos turned ‘ Fox ’ into rapist — while the Daily Mail used this theme in their editorial of the day , as part of their continuing campaign against porn videos . |
| 3 | Chola reached up to the arch above the doorway add seven times made the same imprint with the pad of her thumb on to seven discs of semi-dried cow-dung . |
| 4 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 5 | 100 years ago a legion of artists and craftsmen made the same journey . |
| 6 | When , flushed with success , proregulationists pressed Gladstone 's government to extend the statutes in the late 1860s , many supporters made the traditional connection between the threat of the prostitute and wider anxieties about public order and moral habits among the unrespectable poor . |
| 7 | This was operated by a series of huge lifts at either end , and horses , carts , and thousands of Glaswegians made the daily descent into the Stygian depths beneath the cold waters of the Clyde . |
| 8 | The regular salaries attached to the more important posts in the customs and excise administration , for example , were in themselves attractive to many voters in Scottish constituencies , and were the objects of a great deal of political negotiation , for this kind of appointment was the normal currency of management for the politician able to procure it , and the links between parliamentary politics and the disposal of such offices made the nominal right of appointment possessed by the boards of commissioners in Edinburgh somewhat illusory . |
| 9 | As the fifties proceeded , a succession of coups , countercoups , wars , revolutions and civil disorders made the Middle East one of the most volatile areas on earth , a place that in the words of one historian , " reverberated with the sound of crashing throne . " |
| 10 | The Iraqis made the fullest use of these defensive advantages in 1984 to supplement the positions they had prepared on dry land while awaiting the half million or so Iranians whom US satellite photographs had identified as massing on the frontier near Basrah . |
| 11 | Clapton is a graceful , authoritative performer , even sitting down , and his ten acoustic country-blues tunes made the 6,000 seat Royal Albert Hall seem like a club . |
| 12 | In both these cases the old plates made the necessary points , and there was no need to go to the trouble and expense of getting new ones . |
| 13 | An extreme climate and thin , stony soils made the windy plateaux ( the páramos ) of Teruel and Huesca the most sparsely populated parts of Spain . |
| 14 | The field-grey of the Wehrmacht and a new generation of military heroes made the brown-shirted Party functionaries stand out in even more unattractive light than before the war . |
| 15 | A team of 123 competitors and 22 officials made the long trip after much media criticism of the small size of the original allocation of places , particularly for athletics . |
| 16 | Citizens young and old laid bird traps , and 700,000 sparrows made the supreme sacrifice so that the down from their necks might pad a birthday quilt . |
| 17 | This time the Official Unionists made the red scare claims , asserting that the Protestant paramilitaries were in league with the Provisional IRA to create a socialist republic in Northern Ireland . |
| 18 | Paisley was the sole DUP candidate and John Hume was the candidate for the SDLP , but the Official Unionists made the tactical mistake of fielding two candidates . |
| 19 | The busmen 's case had been that their strict schedules made the satisfactory operation of physical functions difficult . |
| 20 | Very little was left to chance and great attention was given to every detail of publicity so that posters , signs , displays , and press advertisements made the maximum impact . |
| 21 | THE first Mormon migrants made the long trek west to what would become Utah in the 1840s to escape religious and political persecution . |
| 22 | The American neo-Lamarckians made the same point , arguing that the fossils seemed to support a theory of directed evolution , not one based on the selection of random variation by the local environment . |
| 23 | But Education Department lawyers made the out-of-court settlement and agreed to pay his £12,000 costs . |
| 24 | The parents ' lawyers made the same points . |
| 25 | Even though they were against the wind , Colleges made the better start and after Thomson had missed two penalties and John Mackenzie had had a ‘ try ’ disallowed for a foot in touch ( signalled by the Colleges touch judge Bert Barclay ) the home side went 10-0 up . |
| 26 | Primitive Methodists made the greatest strides of all : the number of their ministers without any college training fell by 60 per cent while the number with , rose by 59 per cent . |
| 27 | But only the very superior pugilists made the ultimate escapes and so it was in every boxing slave 's interest to wring out his best efforts on every occasion . |
| 28 | THE INFLUX of Australians into the English domestic cricket scene continues unabated , the difference between today and yesteryear being that in the late 1940s and early 1950s players made the 12,000 mile northern journey to take up contracts with league and county sides after falling out of favour with State and national selectors . |
| 29 | The moment last year when the JET scientists made the big breakthrough … producing energy from nuclear fusion … the joining of atomic particles . |
| 30 | Other European socialist thinkers made the same judgement , but some argued for diverse proletarian strategies , including reliance on trade union action and the strike weapon , or the creation of working-class communes outside capitalist relations , where a new civilization could be constructed piecemeal . |