Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] make [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in this way that Galle came to make the first sighting of the planet now known as Neptune . |
| 2 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 3 | Mrs Meacock and Araminta had made a first appearance in a short story , ‘ The Prerogative of Love ’ . |
| 4 | Truman had made the first move in South-East Asia at the time of the Korean War , sending financial and other aid to the French government , by then engaged in a desperate attempt to maintain their control of Indo-China . |
| 5 | Margaret Gowing in her official history of the British post-war atomic programme said : ‘ Polonium was a little-known element needed for a vital component of the ( atomic ) bomb … after Harwell had made the first polonium , Windscale assumed production responsibility … |