Example sentences of "[noun sg] have make the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already , the Smith camp has made the right noises — about reform of the trade union block vote , about an openness to electoral reform , and about a wide-ranging policy review — that might not have happened had Gould not intervened . |
| 2 | All of a sudden , the prospect of an economically over-mighty Germany in a fast-changing continent has made the pragmatic path seem complacent and a more radical approach altogether more urgently attractive . |
| 3 | But it is in the area of conversational analysis that ethnomethodology has made the greatest contribution . |
| 4 | Witold Krassowski : Images of Poland , a long history of oppression has made the Polish people tough , with a strong sense of national identity . |
| 5 | Continuous oppression had made the Irish a completely wretched nation , and now , as everyone knows , they have the job of providing England , America and Australia etc. with whores , day labourers , pimps , pickpockets , swindlers , beggars and other wretches . |
| 6 | CARDIFF rugby club have made the biggest signing in their history . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal has the advantage ( if dealing with cases such as these after the trial judge has made the initial decision ; it is difficult to say on the basis of these cases how a trial judge at first instance should approach them . |
| 8 | In addition to the third instalment on the Cuyp , the national gallery has made the first instalment on a Cranage painting . |
| 9 | An SFA selection committee had made the odd decision to pick a team months before the finals and conspired to select a pool of only 13 players which barely reflected the best talent available . |
| 10 | The rural district council relied on the assumption of responsibility by the corporation in 1945 , while the corporation denied responsibility for the former rural district families and claimed that the 1956 Housing Act had made the rural district council responsible for all the families in the camp . |
| 11 | The exercise had made the public familiar with the coalition and had given the local branches of the three parties experience in working together for a common purpose . |
| 12 | I always donate to these organisations and have benefited to the extent that organisations like THT , Body Positive and LAGER have made the general public aware of the infection and have made some employers take it into account . |
| 13 | A pleasure steamer has made the first day trip down the Severn to the Devon coast for almost a century . |
| 14 | Fame has made the former rebel into a smug , uncommitted and corrupt member of the musical establishment . |
| 15 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 16 | I read it as you asked , but rain had made the magic blur . |
| 17 | The Liberal government before the First World War had made the first tentative steps in the introduction of old-age pensions ( 1908 ) and national health and unemployment insurance ( 1911 ) . |
| 18 | Legal claims for medical injury must normally be filed within three years , but the High Court has made the unusual decision that Keith can sue for damages , 25 years after his operation . |
| 19 | ‘ Your Grace has made the right decision , God be thanked ! ’ |
| 20 | The third example is like the second , since the testator has made the intended beneficiary explicit . |
| 21 | Ardent royalist Dorothy Myers , a nurse of Rochdale , Lancs , said : ‘ That woman has made the Royal Family into a laughing stock . ’ |
| 22 | In this there is a parallel , by no means fanciful , with the motor car — surely the only product that might challenge TV 's claim to have made the greatest difference to most people 's daily lives between 1945 and 1990 . |
| 23 | Jackson 's 1957 paper had made the first study of muon catalysed fusion in mixtures of deuterium and tritium but had concluded that there too the energy return did not offer much practical hope . |
| 24 | ‘ As hysteria results from the repression of sexuality in the child 's upbringing , the marked change in society 's attitudes towards sex has made the conspicuous symptoms disappear . |
| 25 | But both authors recognise that experience in office in the coalition government had made the Labour leaders more cautious than they would otherwise have been : Dr Marwick comments that ‘ Middle-class radicalism and official trade unionism were much stronger influences than left-wing Socialism ’ , and Dr Addison speaks of an ‘ Attlee consensus ’ to which the Conservatives , when they returned to office in 1951 , also subscribed . |
| 26 | I did n't know who was in and who was not , but the incident with Russell and the telephone call had made the whole family wary . |
| 27 | The public grew to hate the licensors , and Parliament eventually uncovered widespread corruption in their operation — fraud , extortion and intimidation had made the whole system a scandal . |
| 28 | Professor Murray 's study was interesting , however , I must point out that the report has made the common error of calling schizophrenia a split personality . |
| 29 | But his sudden withdrawing of his Fourth Symphony and his artist 's response in his Fifth Symphony had made the young revolutionary acutely aware of the precarious role of the creative artist in Stalin 's Soviet Union . |
| 30 | The case had made the front page ; eight column inches in the bottom right-hand corner : |