Example sentences of "has make a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man has made a fool of himself , but the girl was almost equally stupid . |
| 2 | ‘ However , your vanity has made a fool of you . |
| 3 | It has made a lake of the Mediterranean , a stream of the Atlantic and a winter garden of Algeria ’ . |
| 4 | This means that the seller has made a return of 50 per cent on his initial investment of 200 in just five days while the buyer has lost 50 per cent of his initial investment . |
| 5 | The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank . |
| 6 | There is nothing which can be guaranteed to alienate the affections of a statistician more than the surveyor who goes for advice after he has made a mess of sampling and needs someone to get him out of the mess . |
| 7 | We learn that John has had an affair with a fashion model ( Sunny Griffin ) , who moves in with her dresses , wigs and dog , but decides to leave after she has made a mess of the kitchen by boiling the spaghetti over . |
| 8 | The Federal Assembly has made a mess of the country 's name , rejecting the Czecho-Slovakia with a hyphen and finally agreeing on the Czech and Slovak Federated Republic ( CFSR ) . |
| 9 | If the arrest is lawful but the accused believes it to be unlawful , he is guilty because he has made a mistake of law : Bentley ( 1850 ) 4 Cox CC 406 . |
| 10 | But his widow has made a present of a portrait of , of the , of the prophet , which is now in the Meeting House in Sussex University , with a plaque erm commemorating the gift . |
| 11 | Scotland 's rugby coach is acknowledged worldwide as the master alchemist whose inspired blending of the human elements at his disposal has made a nonsense of the form book . |
| 12 | He is acknowledged worldwide now as the master alchemist whose inspired blending of the human elements at his disposal has made a nonsense of perceived national pool strengths . |
| 13 | DAVID Mellor , who has made a variety of television and radio appearances since his resignation as Minister for Fun , is about to take a major step in his broadcasting career . |
| 14 | The solution is not to abolish honorary degrees for this would remove the one means in the gift of the University of recognising a debt to a person who has made a contribution of time and service to the well being of the University . |
| 15 | None of them has made a hash of things like the British government . |
| 16 | I know that I 'm being unfair to you and to Virginia , but what I feel for you — what I have always felt for you — has made a weakling of me . " |
| 17 | One of the organisations has made a pledge of £25,000 to the appeal . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , the Ego has made a monopoly of guilt , seeing it as a splendid excuse for misery and martyrdom . |
| 19 | But , since the earliest times man has made a network of tracks and paths to form routes across the countryside . |
| 20 | If your vet is n't up to date with this problem , I suggest you write to Peter Neville , the animal behaviourist who has made a study of pica . |
| 21 | Management consultancy Kinsley Lord , which has made a study of empowerment , recognises that a major effort is required to bring about a fundamental change of attitude . |
| 22 | Uitsmijter has made a study of Maa . |
| 23 | Sonya at fourteen , has made a study of the cheeky little comedian . |
| 24 | The president has made a habit of breaking election promises . |
| 25 | One of the most advanced examples of development has been CLIMAP ( Climate , Long Range Investigation , Mapping and Prediction , Hays and Moore , 1973 ) which has made a reconstruction of global sea surface , ice extent , ice elevation and continental albedo for the northern hemisphere summer at 18,000 years BP and this has provided the boundary conditions for global general circulation models to simulate the climate when the northern ice sheets were at their maximum extent ( see Lockwood , 1983a ) . |
| 26 | This could be because Carlo ( left ) has made a career of clothes . |
| 27 | Frank has made a career of knocking on doors , finding the wood is solid and going round the back way . |
| 28 | He has made a score of films since , including his infamous documentary about the Rolling Stones 's 1972 tour , which the Stones suppressed because of its depiction of drug use and sex . |
| 29 | ‘ Indeed , ’ said Bishop Jon , ‘ 't is to be hoped that the two saintly souls got on well together in life ( if so be that they ever met at all , which I take leave to doubt ) now that the lord King has made a packet of them , so to speak , for posterity . |
| 30 | Age Concern England has urged the Government to monitor more closely the provision by health authorities of continuing care , and has made a number of recommendations about how this might be done . |