Example sentences of "[noun sg] who [verb] made a " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if 24-17 and derisive chants of ‘ Easy , easy ’ were not bad enough , this humiliation was against a side who have made a wretched start to the season — a week earlier Pontypool had given them a 35-6 going-over — and were short of at least half-a-dozen first-choice players . |
| 2 | Her father , ‘ a younger … and illegitimate , though much loved , son of the eccentric 2nd Earl of Kilmoray ’ , served in the First Life Guards and was military attaché in Rome from 1895 to 1901 ; her mother was the daughter of ‘ a Dutch nobleman of ancient lineage who had made a fortune out of East Indian tin ’ . |
| 3 | Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs . |
| 4 | For the first time in his life , Peter found her pitiful , a tiny figure who had made a cage of her routines and spent her life staring through the bars at the glorious unpredictability of the world outside . |
| 5 | An occasional treat or privilege for a child who has made a big effort to master a new skill or managed to give up a bad habit hardly comes into that category . |
| 6 | He lost Manoj Prabhakar , carried away by the exuberance of his own and everybody else 's strokeplay , but Kapil Dev survives - and he is the only Indian who has made a faster Test hundred than Azharuddin 's . |
| 7 | Until now the Magistrate had been in the position of a scientist who has made a discovery which he knows to be true but is unable to prove . |
| 8 | The medal is traditionally presented at the end of the city 's annual Science Festival to a scientist who has made a particular contribution to science and society . |
| 9 | His eyes were those of a chess-player who has made a good move . |
| 10 | There was no general ruling on what type of person was best able to carry out these tasks but the two most common groups were : ( a ) the older wife who had a great deal of experience , and ( b ) the young wife who had made a determined effort to acquire as much knowledge and skill as possible . |
| 11 | In 1715 , Thomas Doggett , an Irishman who had made a successful career in London as an actor , theatre manager and author , instituted a race between six young watermen , donating the prize of an ornate jacket , cash in pocket and silver badge to the winner . |
| 12 | The Whitney Museum of American Art has established an honorary award to be given annually ‘ to an individual or representatives of an organisation who have made a significant contribution to the arts in America through a sustained commitment to the diversity , quality and originality of American artistic achievement ’ . |
| 13 | The solution is not to abolish honorary degrees for this would remove the one means in the gift of the University of recognising a debt to a person who has made a contribution of time and service to the well being of the University . |
| 14 | I imagine she leaned eagerly over the desk towards me , as towards a pupil who has made a good point in his essay , smiling and nodding encouragingly . |
| 15 | I had a sudden flash of memory of one of the most remarkable women I had ever met — Sister Kenny , a woman who had made a great impact on me because of Clare . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the service may come to late for a childless woman who has made a desperate plea for an egg donor . |
| 17 | The elderly lay proprietor , Miss Cordelia Claybury , had inherited the madhouse from her father who had made a good living out of the rich and insane . |
| 18 | The house had been built by a mill owner who had made a comfortable fortune at the woollen mill which straddled the river Pleshey a mile or two west of Lulling . |
| 19 | The campus was fenny-flat , laid out like a kind of chess-board , redeemed by an imaginative water-gardener who had made a maze of channels and pools , randomly flowing across and around the rectangular grid . |
| 20 | a geomorphologist who has made a substantial contribution which includes a considerable number of process-type contributions as well as some concerned more with evolutionary geomorphology , concluded after a review of three recent statements on the issue ( Dury , 1972 , p. 201 ) : |
| 21 | If your vet is n't up to date with this problem , I suggest you write to Peter Neville , the animal behaviourist who has made a study of pica . |
| 22 | Mr. Flack 's own interest began in 1934 when he was in court for the libel case brought against the MGM film company who had made a film about Rasputin . |
| 23 | A customer who has made a major purchase may then realise that he needs other , smaller items . |
| 24 | He queried whether a solicitor who had made a promise without strictly complying with the criteria suggested in question 10 could escape liability as a matter of law . |
| 25 | Cricket director Bob Cottam said : ‘ Leaving him out would be the equivalent of dumping a batsman who had made a hundred on his Test debut . ’ |
| 26 | Eamonn McCann , the ‘ unofficial Labour ’ candidate in Londonderry , demanded that the Official Unionist , Robin Chichester-Clark , dismiss those members of his constituency party who had made a deal with the Protestant Unionists or be seen as a puppet on a Paisleyite string . |