Example sentences of "[noun prp] be make a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 I keep expecting to hear you and Cora-Beth are making a go of it ?
2 Adams is making a snail 's progress through the maze of cheap postwar housing where what some call ‘ the terrorist community ’ resides .
3 AILING comic Richard Pryor is making a comeback — defying doctors who said he was finished .
4 ‘ Director Edmonds is making a mistake .
5 At the County Ground it 's Swindon against Bristol City … former skipper Colin Calderwood 's making a guest appearance as the club stage a benefit for good old Chalky White whose goals have helped the team to the very top …
6 Mr Johnny was making a queer , sucking sound with his lips .
7 Fucking Mick 's making a fortune training at Arsenal !
8 Occasionally a mevleviyet was created by the combination of the kadilik with another post : Kutahya was made a mevleviyet in about 970/1562–3 by the joining of a muderrislik with the kadilik , while Kefe seems to have become a mevleviyet in 992/1584 by the joining of the offices of kadi and mufti .
9 A tiff with his nephew was no disqualification in the eyes of Charles II , who disliked William and his religion ; Ken on his return to England was made a chaplain to the King , who would remark ruefully on Sundays , ‘ Now I must go and hear little Ken rebuke me for my sins . ’
10 Meanwhile , Ivy was made a Dame .
11 Haig was made a field marshal on 1 January 1917 .
12 KOJAK star Telly Savalas is making a television comeback — on the wrong side of the law .
13 Some scholars believe that Matthew is making a play on words and that the original word was Nezer .
14 ‘ Dr Grant was making a round when your call came through to the hospital , and as I happened to be on duty … ’
15 If it means anything else , Hume was making a fool of Adams .
16 Keller was made a Steward of Henley Royal Regatta in 1976 , a time when the proliferation of new six-lane , still-water courses around the world , which had emerged under his guidance , seemed a threat to the regatta founded in 1829 .
17 Joanne is making a pilot for a regular Chuck Spezzano series .
18 THE BBC is to make a £2 million television drama about the fictional break-up of the Royal Family .
19 Blanche is made a victim through Stanley 's bestial behaviour but Blanche has brought much of what she got on herself through her lies and deception of herself and of others .
20 In 1834 , Geikie was made a Fellow of the Scottish Academy .
21 Johnson 's making a gag about it , you know , everybody wants to learn about it , but for us it 's much more difficult in , in the twentieth century .
22 Tonight , bassist Mike Johnson is making a stand for individualism ; he sports short , silver hair instead of de rigueur long locks and wears collar , tie and fetching brown cardigan .
23 Ho was made a prisoner , a convict , ‘ loaded with chains , covered in sores , put amongst the worst bandits , associated with the condemned , like one dead ’ .
24 Following the defeat of a superior Turkish fleet in the Scio channel , Standidge was made a knight of Russia , and presented with a gold Maltese cross with a topaz overlaying a lock of hair of the Tsarina Catherine .
25 We can not be sure that , in choosing a place and time , God was making a point about gender .
26 County Council and the department transport strategy right now is to see the A one three four , north of Bury St Edmunds be made a trunk road and the
27 Porter Paints ' answer in the US is to make a video and send tapes to every local team .
28 SERBIAN dictator Slobodan Milosevic is making a killing — with a £5million deal to make shirts for Marks & Spencer .
29 Chelsea boss Ian Porterfield is making a shock swoop for Sheffield Wednesday left-back Phil King .
30 Ruth Rolph continues her series of lecture-demonstrations , and Molly Scrutton is making a tour of classes in order to promote Society membership .
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