Example sentences of "made [pers pn] the [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This drug duo may have been singled out because their penchant for fine racehorses and private zoos , not to mention murder on a massive scale , made them the most public of the mafia bosses . |
| 2 | The popularity of Hollywood films made them the most obvious indicator of the general shift in world trade . |
| 3 | A possible Trojan link was claimed by William of Jumièges for William the Conqueror as soon as he became king ; a late eleventh-century genealogy of the counts of Boulogne produced a similar conceit ; and Genealogy IV of the Counts of Flanders , written about 1120 , made them the most important non-royal family to trace its ancestry back to Priam . |
| 4 | Main made me the most incredible clothes . |
| 5 | Ethel ran out of the door with the frightening single-mindedness that later made her the most successful Tiller Girl . |
| 6 | ‘ In practical terms ’ , Luxemburg 's biographer , Peter Nettl , comments , ‘ Rosa Luxemburg 's opposition to the PPS ( Polish Socialist Party ) , and its policy of self-determination made her the most efficient ally of the SPD 's ( German Social Democratic Party 's ) policy of organizational integration for minorities in Germany ’ . |
| 7 | His sparse blond hair was dark with sweat , and his surprised blue eyes and hangdog look made him the most unlikely royal messenger Corbett had ever seen . |
| 8 | However that may be , Cnut 's considerable generosity to Canterbury implies that he did have good relations with Æthelnoth , and this possibly made him the more determined to control the selection of his successor . |
| 9 | Nevertheless its roots have evidently been shallower than in Northern Ireland , where the absence of comprehensive schools perhaps made it the more necessary . |
| 10 | Which made it the more regrettable that , in an age when abortion is pressed on one as if it were a free sample , she should have contrived to have four children in six years — unwanted , dubiously parented , ill cared for . |
| 11 | Especially on the second night , I had the feeling that he wanted to talk , and what made it the more interesting was the variety of his experiences and the mature way in which he alluded to them . |
| 12 | The fact that they had been warned off but made it the more attractive . |