Example sentences of "made [pers pn] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The assurance with which Gothic schemes were presented made them the obvious alternative to Second Empire , but large secular Gothic buildings of this type were an unknown quantity . |
| 2 | In Soho , hell-bent on a good time , her tremendous vitality made her the female counterpart of Minton . |
| 3 | That made him the perfect fling . |
| 4 | So his political background and other skills made him the logical candidate ’ . |
| 5 | He was immediately dispatched to the scene , where his energy , intelligence and presence of mind made him the chief decision-taker in the first days after the explosion of reactor number four . |
| 6 | The State made him the ecclesiastical head of the Church of England by trampling on the opinions of the relevant ecclesiastical authority . |
| 7 | This made him the intellectual heir of John Hunter , whose Essays and Observations he published with due filial piety in 1861 . |
| 8 | The king 's favour made him the special target of the reforming Ordainers , who in 1311 called for the exclusion from court of both Henry and Isabella , the resumption of his grants from the king , and the transference of the custody of Man to ‘ a good Englishman ’ ( a phrase which reveals one reason for his unpopularity ) . |
| 9 | Some would say this made him the ideal publisher of a newspaper . |
| 10 | This made him the ideal choice to fly this naval fighter . |
| 11 | Kenneth Horne 's rich , fruity voice and warm patrician manner made him the ideal link man and that , coupled with a mischievous sense of humour , ensured that any programme in which he was involved was the better for his presence . |
| 12 | His extrovert personality made him the ideal host at the company 's restaurants . |
| 13 | James Brown made it the perfunctory Single Of The Week and concentrated mainly on the depth of lyrical content . |
| 14 | As far as I was concerned , it made it the logical time to sell . |
| 15 | By 1225 the loss of Poitiers and La Rochelle made it the effective capital of the remaining Plantagenet dominions . |
| 16 | This position put its schools in the forefront and made it the leading school of Europe from the 1140s , until Paris began to take the lead in theology and philosophy ( but never in law ) in the 1180s . |
| 17 | Its proximity to another , larger , Binns store in Middlesbrough only made it the obvious candidate for the axe . |
| 18 | Atlantic City 's vast beach and boardwalk made it the American seaside resort of the nineteenth century . |