Example sentences of "[adv] made the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rebuke to the Congress , that " if this leadership is to succeed , it must have the men it wants " , effectively made the second vote on Yanayev a vote of confidence in Gorbachev , and Yanayev was then elected by 1,237 votes to 563 . |
| 2 | Virgin duly made the appropriate rerelease but nothing happened . |
| 3 | Postponing the necessary adjustment had , however , only made the ultimate adjustment harder , and the policy dilemmas sharper . |
| 4 | This time they killed Charlie 's father , which was a silly mistake because it only made the young fool sign up to fight the lot of them on his own . |
| 5 | That he himself happened to be a congenital cad only made the whole thing more difficult , not easier . |
| 6 | I just made the whole bed and then realized I 'd put it on the wrong way . |
| 7 | In 1955 , after months of agonizing , Dennis and Millie Jones finally made the momentous decision that they would leave the security of tiny Maesteg in Mid Glamorgan and head for a new life of the other side of the world . |
| 8 | After a succession of jobs as bellhop , waiter , car-park attendant , like a bit-part actor who finally made the big time in this aquatic Hollywood , he has built a career out of surfing big waves . |
| 9 | The Savoyard himself did not appear on the day , apparently because he was unsure whether to give precedence to the representative of the king of Bohemia ( the " Winter King " Frederick of the Palatinate ) ; but his absence at once made the Venetian ambassador fear that Savoy , perhaps with French or Spanish help , was intriguing to threaten the precedence claimed by the republic . |
| 10 | Lowe quickly made the telling point that whenever he saw film or photographs of the All Blacks they always looked as grim and serious . |
| 11 | Though he delegated much of the work he always made the final selection choices . |
| 12 | ATORY MP yesterday made the first admission that the Government does not know whether children from poorer backgrounds will be put off higher education by the introduction of top-up loans , writes Celia Weston . |
| 13 | More significantly , the Government yesterday made the biggest effort yet to defuse the row by saying the two Central Office officials ' visit had been cleared by the Tory chairman , Sir Norman Fowler , but Major himself had known nothing about it . |
| 14 | They gratefully made the front door of Nails 's terrace house and crowded into the kitchen with the others . |
| 15 | The Lord President also made the following observation in relation to the consequences of sustaining the first ground , 1959 S.C . |
| 16 | Anticipating much later research , Tylor also made the seminal suggestion that the choice of residence at marriage exerted a crucial effect on the way kinship was reckoned in a society . |
| 17 | The same director , Pen Tennyson , also made The Proud Valley ( 1939 ) which , with Carol Reed 's The Stars Look Down ( 1939 ) , exploited the BBFC 's new leniency towards stories with an industrial setting . |
| 18 | Shevardnadze also made the startling claim that the Soviet leadership had foreseen the revolutionary changes in Eastern Europe in 1989 . |
| 19 | After five years in Yorkshire he was transferred to Manchester City for £56,000 and a year later made the fateful move to Torino . |
| 20 | If the precedent sale was at the request of the defendant , who later made the express promise of the guarantee , why should not the guarantee have been enforceable under Lampleigh v. Brathwait ? |
| 21 | Britain probably made the greatest contribution in literature and science , Germany certainly in music , while in the late nineteenth century , France dominated the world of painting . |
| 22 | A strong bloc of townsmen worth £10 and upwards made the average wealth of Bodmin , Cornwall , a trifle higher than in the rest of Trigg hundred , even though the taxed wage earners , who formed a negligible element in the country parishes , exceeded 40 per cent in the borough itself , numbers which point to a concentration of men who had effectively severed kinship ties with the Celtic extended family that so influenced the social structure of many villages . |
| 23 | Fifth , it examines whether recent elections have produced a realignment in the party system ; have three successive handsome election victories now made the Conservative party the natural majority party ? |
| 24 | Chlothar I even made the heinous suggestion that the churches of his kingdom should hand over one-third of their revenues to the crown . |
| 25 | I even made the occasional trip into the West End of an evening to see the latest music-hall star . |
| 26 | He wondered how many people in all the mental hospitals in the country — or the world " , — come to that — were really fallen Warriors who had either cracked up from the strain of trying to live in this hell-hole , or simply made the wrong choice and thought that the test was just seeing through the whole thing and then having the courage to stand out and make that challenge . |
| 27 | It would be far too glib to suggest that he consciously made the second change , to adopt Christianity , merely to give himself an excuse to abandon sexual relations with Mrs Moore , whatever the nature of those relations had been . |
| 28 | Vaitsos some years ago made the important point that : |
| 29 | Councillor Grubb today made the first call to the helpline . |
| 30 | King Charles , not to be outdone , then made the abandoned wife a duchess , the title to die with her . |