Example sentences of "made [pron] [noun] of the " in BNC.

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1 Had Andrewes remained in Cambridge , his reputation would probably have been unblemished but he would have lacked the stimulus to write the magnificent sermons which he preached at Court ; and he would not willingly have engaged in the controversial writing in which for the first time he set out the Anglican Church 's position in terms which European scholars could respect ; above all his Preces , even had they been written , would not have contained the breadth of experience , and the depth of feeling , based on that experience , which made them treasures of the Church .
2 Frankie 's very success made them part of the pop family .
3 For Clarke , football hooliganism developed at the intersection of these trends : the fans have now taken the traditional values of toughness , masculinity , local identity , collective action and partisanship and made them part of the game 's new , more spectacularised style .
4 Or , rather , a lion — there was something about those gold-brown eyes and swept-back mane of hair that made her think of the King of Beasts , dressed up in the trappings of civilisation .
5 The room made her think of the children 's game where the floor is the sea and full of sharks , and you are only safe on the furniture .
6 With the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 , Florence Lees volunteered for war nursing and the Crown Princess Frederick of Prussia , Queen Victoria 's eldest daughter , made her superintendent of the Royal Reserve Hospital at Homburg .
7 In July 1263 Fitzjohn 's local influence was acknowledged and increased when Montfort 's government made him keeper of the peace in Bedfordshire and Buckinghamshire ; in December , with the other Montfortians , he accepted Louis IX 's offer to arbitrate on their quarrel with the king .
8 She later made him keeper of the musical archives of the Italian court .
9 This , allied to the respect and admiration he had already gained here as captain of our 1977 promotion team and as a member of the full Welsh International side , established an empathy between Ian and the fans which made him part of the folk-lore of Crystal Palace Football Club .
10 Machin says : ‘ John 's a real leader on the pitch which is why we made him captain of the youth team .
11 The position , vacant for 25 years , made him captain of the guard of the Sultan of Sokoto , the spiritual leader of Nigeria 's 60,000,000 Moslems .
12 692 , Wilfrid took refuge with Aethelred who made him bishop of the Middle Angles ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 45 ; HE IV , 23 ) and stood by him when Wilfrid refused to submit to Aldfrith and Archbishop Beorhtwald at the council of Austerfield c .
13 In 1969 the Italian government made him commander of the Order of Merit for services to Italian culture .
14 Sixty years after Schoenberg was making those remarks and nearly twenty years since Karajan made his recording of the Op. 31 Variations , it is still possible to meet the argument that the gramophone can never be a substitute for the sound of ‘ the real thing ’ in the concert-hall .
15 The Colonel then made his rounds of the southern parties while Bill Copland , landing from the destroyer , visited those to the north .
16 These performances directed by Kuijken have many of the qualities that made his set of the Haydn ‘ Paris ’ Symphonies , also on Virgin , so winning .
17 Yet it was through the derided Teenybop that the next pop generation came , as young women quickly moved from varieties of Osmond to something a bit meatier — men who instead of masking the femininity of the adored object , flaunted it and made it part of the package .
18 And of course made it part of the job that you had to attend night school classes for bread baking and confectionery .
19 Soon afterwards we were able to use real rifles , for the authorities made us members of the ‘ Universal Training ’ organization , our criminal past being deliberately overlooked .
20 I think almost daily there were discussions between our two shop stewards and the quarry owners about you know , levels of production , expected targets , increase in production and all this , and er I think you know through those daily discussions we made our side of the argument known and we we told him that we 'd work to rule if things were n't proper and if we did n't like it .
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