Example sentences of "made [art] [adj] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back on the white(ish) stuff , John Welford made the second ascent of Simon Nadin 's 1987 testpiece Gonads giving it F8a+ , and then red-pointed Out of my Tree at Raven Tor as a warm down . |
| 2 | Latter and I made the second ascent of Fer de Lance on sight , confirming the E6 6b grade . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They made the best discovery of all . |
| 5 | Rutherford again made the best stand of the innings , for the fourth wicket , with the captain who was n't keen on having him in the team . |
| 6 | When Chandler nearly scored himself near the end , Shaw , the former First Division goalkeeper with Bristol City , made the best save of the evening . |
| 7 | That is because it is an area where Marx and Engels , misled by Morgan , went most wrong , yet where at the same time they made the best use of anthropology . |
| 8 | A panel of experts decided Kate 's winning menu made the best use of French cheese and awarded her the top prize a Concorde flight to Paris for a supersonic celebration . |
| 9 | The sun made the mullioned glass of the manor house windows shimmer like pools of light . |
| 10 | In turn he made the polite mistake of asking her what she believed socially and politically . |
| 11 | Watson also deserves credit for lifting the veil from Braidwood 's secret teaching methods by publishing after Braidwood 's death in 1806 a book entitled The Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb : or a theoretical and practical view of the means by which they are taught to speak and understand a language , which made the early technique of such teaching in this country public knowledge . |
| 12 | The unit 's subsequent successes in Italy , France , and Germany made the postwar renaissance of the SAS , as a permanent part of the British defence forces , that much easier to achieve . |
| 13 | It would be difficult to understand why an otherwise ordinary country woman should have been singled out and made the central character of the tradition if there was no truth in the story . |
| 14 | To meet this gap in the old ‘ circle of control ’ , an Estimates Committee was appointed in 1912 and reappointed in every session , except during the two world wars , until 1960 when Standing Order No. 80 made the sessional appointment of the committee mandatory . |
| 15 | I was among her escort to Bristol when Stephen made the idiotic mistake of allowing the Countess to join her half-brother . ’ |
| 16 | The first meeting took place on the following Monday , 7th June , when the seven members present made the momentous choice of Hope as chairman . |
| 17 | Two-digit inflation was a great boost to buying on credit , and buying a house on credit made the greatest sense of all because inflation ensured that the capital value of your house increased while your repayments took a gradually smaller percentage of your income . |
| 18 | Establishments in public administration ( particularly in education ) made the greatest use of fixed-term contract workers — 39 per cent did so — and the least use of agency workers — eight per cent did so [ see Tables 3.1–2 ] . |
| 19 | This made the total cost of erecting the lift to be an estimated £27,000 . |
| 20 | The last man to leave , General Boris Gromov made the final part of the crossing on foot . |
| 21 | It was not only intensely irritating , but it also frightened many women off , and made the normal process of two people getting to know one another quite impossible . |
| 22 | Averaging of this kind was first done at the National Hospital in London in the 1940s by George Dawson , initially using a technique of photographic superimposition and then later a system of addition using banks of condensers , but it was the electronic processing and computing power of the 1960s and 1970s which made the accurate timing of these averaged potentials possible , resulting in a rapid expansion in ERP research . |
| 23 | An agreement signed on March 27 by Humberto Ortega on behalf of the Sandinista government and by Chamorro 's chief aide Antonio Lacayo had prohibited active members of the armed forces from holding positions in political parties , and made the peaceful handover of power and the subjection of the armed forces to civilian authority conditional on the disarming of the contra guerrillas by April 25 [ see below ] . |
| 24 | You made the supreme sacrifice of your life for your work last night , so do n't be shy about admitting it . |
| 25 | Ramsay MacDonald was beaten by such a campaign in 1921 with language that made the general election of 1918 seem tame . |
| 26 | It was funny and sad , but the miracle of it was the good-humoured way in which Rosenthal ( an old Coronation Street hand ) made the crushing boredom of it all , the sullenness and tantrums , seem somehow interesting . |
| 27 | The Party never listened to him , anyway , and it was about 15 years before they made the gushing film of the Kinnocks on the clifftop — otherwise know as Jonathan Livingstone Kinnock . |
| 28 | In mid-August I made the great mistake of seeking a four-day break from London to stay with friends in France . |
| 29 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 30 | They gratefully made the front door of Nails 's terrace house and crowded into the kitchen with the others . |