Example sentences of "made [pers pn] [adj] [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below her hospital gown , her legs were still as she remembered — although her reinforced thigh and shin bones made them two and a half inches longer . |
| 2 | A fulsomely congratulatory message to me from Reuters later in the day made me aware that no representative of my rival overseas agencies had been present at the Jeanes conference . |
| 3 | He could command her responses as easily as though he held her in thrall , and that made her more than a little afraid . |
| 4 | Both victim and aggressor would be immune from moral judgment ; the former for taking whatever social path it was that made him vulnerable and the latter for unleashing his fury , frustrations or whatever , upon the passive recipient of his cruelty and wrath . |
| 5 | The official results announced on Dec. 30 made it apparent that the second round of voting scheduled for Jan. 16 , 1992 , would almost certainly produce a FIS government . |
| 6 | When Nan rushed in , pulling her hat and coat off as she came in , she laughingly looked at the clock and said , ‘ Made it all but a minute , miss . |
| 7 | Fraternal black feeling made it inevitable that the ANC would speak out in defence of its rival . |
| 8 | Apart from encroachments on Western-held territories , the trend in Japanese strategic thinking made it inevitable that the crisis in East Asia , resulting from the China War , would become closely tied up with the course of events in Europe . |
| 9 | The fluid political situation in the 1930s made it inevitable that the " Left " was strengthened as it was in all other democratic societies . |
| 10 | That made it 24-0 and the game effectively over and yet there were as many points to come . |
| 11 | The COI also made it widely-known that the shy Blewitt had been made a Freeman of the City of London in recognition of Dunston-based DMB 's skills in tackling the restoration of the city 's Blackfriars Bridge . |
| 12 | The plan for the evacuation to be in groups of three had to be abandoned , as it would have taken 40 hours to get all of the men out and the gas collecting near them made it imperative that the exercise be completed in much less time . |
| 13 | In the same way , the frequent coinage reforms of the late Roman empire or late Anglo-Saxon England made it unlikely that the previous issues survived for very long after the date of the reform . |
| 14 | This did not imply an end to the CME 's fungible link with SIMEX , but it did signal the realisation that regulatory complications made it unlikely that the mutual offset system could be extended around the globe . |
| 15 | ‘ If an assassin were to dare to enter my kitchen , ’ Auguste announced in tones that made it clear that no villain would have the temerity , ‘ do you not think that poison would be his chosen means , rather than an arsenal of rifles hidden in a kitchen range ? ’ |
| 16 | Well I think he made it clear that no jury could forget what everybody knew er which is of course er the the facts that emerged at the time er that the Birmingham Six were acquitted . |
| 17 | Both Ken Clarke and my special adviser Nicholas True made it clear that a good speech was ‘ needed ’ at the Party Conference in Blackpool . |
| 18 | Evidence in favour of this interpretation of the phrase ‘ the physical environment ’ is found in DoE Circular 55/77 ( now withdrawn ) which made it clear that a statement of pollution policy could appropriately form part of a structure plan , albeit necessarily of a general nature since they are policies stated by an authority ( county council ) responsible neither for air pollution control nor for most development control . |
| 19 | The significance of Rookes v. Barnard was that it made it clear that a threat of a breach of contract was unlawful for this purpose but the criticism has been made ( and this indeed was the opinion of the Court of Appeal ) that if intimidation is extended to threats to break contracts ‘ it would overturn or outflank some elementary principles of contract law , ’ notably the doctrine of privity of contract , which holds that one who is not a party to a contract can not found a claim upon it or sue for breach of it . |
| 20 | Mr. Simon Hughes As the Minister 's first answer made it clear that a price differential has been a major cause of the substantial increase in sales of unleaded petrol , and as the Secretary of State is on record as saying that the market has a role to play in cutting the use of petrol across the market in the United Kingdom , by what figures does the Department currently estimate that petrol prices will increase over the next few years ? |
| 21 | However , the Un Secretary-General , Javier Pérez de Cuéllar , made it clear that a conference would take place only if sufficient progress towards an outline agreement had previously been made . |
| 22 | Reynolds held talks with leading politicians on Feb. 19 , in an attempt to find cross-party agreement on the case , but made it clear that a referendum to dilute the constitutional clause on abortion would be avoided if possible . |
| 23 | The Court of Appeal made it clear that an employer could not use a restrictive covenant in an employment contract to protect confidential information unless that information could be classified as a trade secret or equivalent . |
| 24 | Later the hierarchy made it clear that the basis for their objections was the increase in power by the state vis-à-vis the liberty and self-reliance of its citizens which such legislation would entail . |
| 25 | In a statement issued in Pretoria yesterday , President de Klerk made it clear that the South African government was not involved in the London talks , and disapproved of them . |
| 26 | Mr Baker made it clear that the leadership was determined to use the conference — under the slogan ‘ The right team for Britain 's future ’ — to lift the flagging morale of supporters and raise the party in the opinion polls . |
| 27 | They also made it clear that the party fears that New Forum and other opposition groups could turn into mass movements . |
| 28 | Yesterday Mr Clarke again made it clear that the 9 per cent offer was final , and continued to attack the TUC unions — particularly the National Union of Public Employees and the unions ' chief negotiator , Mr Roger Poole . |
| 29 | Mr Roger Poole , chief union negotiator , accused Mr Clarke , of sabotaging the talks after the statement made it clear that the 9 per cent 18 month offer would not be improved . |
| 30 | However Mr Olsen made it clear that the company had no intention of allowing its stake to fall below 50 per cent . |