Example sentences of "make a [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury . |
| 2 | The one with the fine stripes looked slightly flashier , but he 'd made a better ironing job of the plain one . |
| 3 | Just turned 21 , she has sold more than 30 million records worldwide , has made a major feature film and has silenced the carping critics with a massively successful debut tour as a live performer . |
| 4 | It 's tricky , as someone who skis and mountaineers , to whine about the encroachment of ski developments in Scotland , especially when the developers of Aonach Mor spilt so much ink about how they were ‘ conservation friendly ’ , they could have made a major motion picture out of their press releases . |
| 5 | Returning from a break in Wales , we found annual nettles , chickweed and seedling thistles had made a major takeover bid for the plot ; a bit of a blow , but not entirely unexpected . |
| 6 | Palace face a fierce battle with Scottish giants Rangers to sign the tall , explosive striker who has already made a major impact north of the border . |
| 7 | This would have made a fascinating court case . |
| 8 | On 8 December , the former prime minister , Stanley Baldwin ( Lord Baldwin ) , had made a successful radio appeal on behalf of refugees , ‘ the victims … of an explosion of man 's inhumanity to man ’ . |
| 9 | There , she had been happy in Pakistan ; she had been happy in the Peckham house at least for the first year ; she had been happy working for Graham ; she 'd been enthusiastically interested at college and during the first two years after she had qualified ; she had been completely delighted when she had got the job she now had : a tenants ' association garden in a dreadful estate in Hackney , but where she , with a community group , had planned the garden from scratch and had made a small desert blossom like a rose . |
| 10 | I asked if she had made a separate tension swatch for the stocking stitch , to which she replied yes and that although she used stitch size 7 for the Fair Isle and 5.2 for the stocking stitch , it had matched exactly ( ? ) . |
| 11 | He 'd made a regular spaghetti junction of his potato . |
| 12 | That much is clear from the standard of his labels ; he would have made a poor museum curator ! |
| 13 | I remember before that the wind changed pretty suddenly from southwest to nearer west I think and I 'd made a new hen house I thought indestructible . |
| 14 | I 've made a new term planner actually but I 've forgotten to bring it . |
| 15 | He would have made he would have made a good Sun journalist . |
| 16 | HP 's Larry Lytle , loaned to the Open Software Foundation back at its inception to handle recruiting , has made a 180 degree turn after a stint at Netwise as strategic relations director where he had philosophical differences with OSf : He 's now gone to Unix System Labs as director of corporate communications . |
| 17 | Well they 'd never , they had n't made a long player Amstrad did and now one or two of them are now are n't they ? |
| 18 | You 've made a bloody death trap on the stairs . |
| 19 | BGS geologists have made a systematic reconnaissance survey of the solid geology of an area around Dounreay as part of a nuclear-waste-repository study , commissioned by UK Nirex Ltd . |
| 20 | I recently took the ‘ little people ’ along to my local Heron Knitting Club where they were much admired and one of our members — in fact my former knitting machine tutor — said that she had once made a whole Nativity scene with empty cones . |
| 21 | ‘ Castlemilk was made a special initiative area by the Government and major improvements to housing and the environment have taken place . |
| 22 | Somehow containing her fury , she flashed him a smile that would have made a lesser man shrivel . |
| 23 | Luke Calder sat down on the settee , pulling Fran down next to him as he favoured her with a smile that would have made a lesser woman fall in a grateful little heap at his feet . |
| 24 | President Roh Tae Woo made a three-day state visit to the United States beginning on July 1 , the first such trip by a South Korean leader for 26 years . |
| 25 | If he had made a full brake application , his guard , Gerry Briggs , would have been thrown from one end of the brakevan to the other with a possible resultant injury . |
| 26 | And so these two brothers , they both got back on , but unfortunately er Les , he was made a full time official of the miners , when he retired , full time official of the miners union . |
| 27 | The Local Plan inquiry had been taking place and the village had made a large input thanks to help from Rear Admiral Charles Weston and Christine Darter , who had devoted time and effort in presenting the parish point of view on many matters . |
| 28 | The father-of-three became chairman of the Bar Council in 1972 and three years later he was made a High Court Judge and was immediately appointed to the Chancery Division . |
| 29 | 5.15 Re-letting boards To permit the Landlord at any time during the last [ 6 ] months of the Contractual Term and at any time thereafter [ unless the Tenant shall have made a valid court application under Section 24 of the 1954 Act or otherwise be entitled in law to remain in occupation or to a new tenancy of the Premises ] [ ( or sooner if the rents or any part of them shall be in arrear and unpaid for longer than [ 28 ] days ) ] to enter upon the Premises and affix and retain anywhere upon the Premises a notice for re-letting the Premises and during such period to permit persons with the written authority of the Landlord or [ its ] agent at reasonable times of the day to view the Premises It is not unreasonable for the landlord to be entitled to erect a re-letting board at the premises within a reasonable period prior to the termination of the term unless the tenant proposes to apply for a new tenancy of the premises , provided that the board is in a position so as not to interfere with the tenant 's or any undertenant 's business being carried on at the premises . |
| 30 | The clause could be amended as follows : To permit the Landlord at any time during the last [ 6 ] months of the Contractual Term and at any time thereafter unless the Tenant shall have made a valid court application under Section 24 of the 1954 Act or otherwise be entitled in law to remain in occupation or to a new tenancy of the Premises to enter upon the Premises and affix and retain upon the Premises in a position so as not to interfere with the Tenant 's or any undertenant 's business being carried on at the Premises a notice for re-letting the Premises and during such period to permit persons with the written authority of the Landlord or its agent at reasonable times of the day on reasonable notice to view the Premises |