Example sentences of "has made a [noun sg] [prep] " 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 Fifthly , a member who is adjudged bankrupt or who has made a composition with his creditors ceases to be a member .
5 Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs .
6 Swindon has made a name for itself attracting overseas investment into Britain , American , Japanese and German .
7 ‘ Darlington has made a name for itself with imaginative use of housing capital .
8 The group 's Snob subsidiary is steadily raising its sales per square foot and management has made a breakthrough at the previously troubled Peter Brown menswear acquisition , which has performed markedly better since June .
9 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 .
10 The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 ) .
14 After meeting staff he has made a plea to agency chiefs to delay the transfer so that full consultations can take place .
15 Rob Collister , president of Britain 's mountain guides , has made a plea for guides to set the example to the climbing community of the virtues of adventure climbing over convenience climbing .
16 The charity to benefit this year is Leukaemia Research , and Lisburn 's own golden girl Mary Peters has made a plea for runners to help the valuable work of this group by obtaining sponsorship .
17 TOP rugby coach Mostyn Richards has made a plea for all clubs to back fully the Mid-Wales District representative team .
18 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 .
19 At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious .
20 Proving that a contravention has occurred , even if only on the balance of probabilities , will not be easy , nor will demonstrating that an alleged miscreant has made a profit as a result of his contravention .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 I do n't think I know anyone who has made a fortune from their knitting machine , but then they are not likely to tell me if they have a yacht in the Mediterranean and a villa in the south of France , are they ?
25 Virani has made a fortune from acting as middle-man , between the English property tycoon and the Asian shopkeeper .
26 The adult has made a change to the array — introduced garages irrelevant to the number of cars .
27 ( b ) The child The child is entitled to respondent status in : ( i ) applications under Parts IV and V of the Act ( proceedings which relate to care , supervision , contact , child assessment , emergency protection and recovery orders ) ; ( ii ) applications under Part III of the Act ( secure accommodation orders and approval to the emigration of children in care ) ; ( iii ) any application for a residence order under s8 in relation to a child in care ; ( iv ) any family proceedings in which the court has made a direction for investigation under s37(1) ( see Chapter 3 , 1(b) ) and has either made or is considering whether to make an interim care order .
28 The court has made a direction to the local authority that the guardian ad litem be allowed to have continuing involvement with a view to making an application in due course if thought appropriate .
29 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 .
30 ‘ Crusaid has made a donation to almost every major HIV/AIDS project in the UK ’
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