Example sentences of "the [noun] made [pers pn] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Times recorded that this was their sixth partnership of over 150 ; the Telegraph that it was their seventh century stand ; while the Guardian made it the eighth . |
| 2 | Round him , she was talkative in order to provoke him into replying , and the attempt made her a habitual confessor , though she would have been amazed if she had been charged with talking about herself all the time . |
| 3 | The snow made her a prisoner , diminished her world , took away the pleasure and the freedom — — |
| 4 | The city 's site on the Isthmus made her a natural centre for trade , and the aryballos seems to have been created to meet a new need : to bottle scented oils , imported from the East , for re-export east and west . |
| 5 | His self-promotional skills combined with his love of sport and the arts made him a popular choice in his new fields . |
| 6 | By the reign of Queen Victoria the 3rd Marquess was the richest man in England and the Queen made him a duke . |
| 7 | He was only eight when Bruce Lee , whose 1973 film Enter the Dragon made him an international star , died mysteriously aged 32 . |
| 8 | The Italians made it a central part of their defence arrangements because of its fine natural harbour , and erected barracks to house 20,000 soldiers . |
| 9 | The dressing-robot made me a wedding dress — we have robots for everything like that . |
| 10 | The offer made them a special case but by the same token was condemned by other groups such as the ancillary workers , who protested that they were offered only 4 per cent . |
| 11 | The intensely provincial , Catholic and Nationalist environment within which the DHAC operated was not conducive to its kind of class-based , quasi-Marxist political rhetoric which would , ten years earlier , probably have unleashed a backlash that it would have found difficult to survive ; even the mild leftism of Stephen McGonagle had in the past made him an object of suspicion among Derry Catholics . |
| 12 | The State made him the ecclesiastical head of the Church of England by trampling on the opinions of the relevant ecclesiastical authority . |
| 13 | Cardus ' determination in his battle with the American made him a big hero in Spain last year . |
| 14 | When incitement to racial hatred was first criminalised in 1965 , the legislation made it a requirement that an intention to incite racial hatred be proved . |
| 15 | The win made it a double celebration for Betty and husband Arthur . |
| 16 | Article 5 of the draft made it an offence to ‘ propagandise against the rule and policy of the party , the law of the state or against socialism . ’ |
| 17 | The conduct of the foresters made them a by-word for oppression and extortion . |
| 18 | Marlene Dietrich played Lola , and the film made her an overnight international star ( please note that this film will be shown at QFT — see page 33 ) . |
| 19 | The Company made her an offer in the advertisement which she accepted by buying a smoke ball from a retailer . |
| 20 | A contract is a bargain and the bargain was that the Company made her the promise in the advertisement and she in return bought one of their smoke balls from a retailer . |
| 21 | Having to hold the button down all the time made it a bit awkward for looking out of the side window , but by craning her neck she could just manage to see the hole to the rear of the craft . |