Example sentences of "make [noun] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The picturesque countryside , fantastic choice and family events , excellent shopping and the host of places to visit make Nottinghamshire the perfect short break destination . |
| 2 | But it 's not ease of use which made WordPerfect the best seller . |
| 3 | As soon as he realised his mistake he tried to go into reverse , but once America sent troops to Saudi Arabia the dictator was trapped : only then did he make Kuwait the 19th province and drop all talk of withdrawing . |
| 4 | Ca n't make Friday the ninth . |
| 5 | The agreement will make Tuxedo the only on-line transaction processing technology on mainframe AIX . |
| 6 | The redirection will probably make Corollary the only company to produce a generic P5 multiprocessor board and chipset targeted at OEMs . |
| 7 | In pre-Tom Watson days , this made Thomson the greatest British Open champion of the era . |
| 8 | As the battle fleet made headway the Japanese government met on December 1 and decided to wage war on the USA , the following day at 0530 the message Niitaka-Yama Nabore ( Climb Mount Niitaka ) was sent in code to the task force , the signal that the Pearl Harbor raid was on . |
| 9 | In addition , the BLA argued that unlimited liability generated claims by encouraging unjustified risk-taking by solicitors , clients and lenders alike , and also made solicitors the first target for loss recovery when the fault occurred . |
| 10 | Had times been normal we are sure that Mr Crawford would have made Otago the foremost province in the Dominion . ’ |
| 11 | The major success of the development of the Campos Basin has made Brazil the third largest oil producer in South America at some 25 million tonnes . |
| 12 | Those statistics , more than the shuffling , lethargic charade of sparring he 's staged under canvas as well as on canvas these past few days , have made Holyfield-Bowe the first heavyweight title fight to open at evens with bookies since Liston-Patterson in 1962 . |
| 13 | ‘ We have made Ygelda the new Steward , and she says it will be nothing new to her for Gwion was always running to her for help . ’ |
| 14 | Perhaps it would have been too easy : they 'd made love the first night they met , both involved with women who gave them pain . |
| 15 | This morning , as always when they had made love the previous night , she had been short and bad-tempered , complaining of a headache . |
| 16 | The Moldovans have made Moldovan the only official language , putting Russians and Ukrainians at the same disadvantage as Sri Lanka once put its Tamils . |
| 17 | Such business acumen has made Glasgow the third-biggest earner of contract income among all UK seats of higher learning , beaten only by London and Oxford . |
| 18 | Louise now greatly regretted having made Fleury the green coat , which she feared made him too conspicuous … and it was a fact that the sepoy sharpshooters could seldom resist trying to hit this brilliant green target . |
| 19 | He was made sergeant the following year . |
| 20 | The degree and meaning of prostitution was an important issue in itself ( one estimate would have made prostitution the fourth largest female occupation ) but more important , given the double standard , was the reservoir of venereal disease especially syphilis , that it was perceived as constituting , a threat particularly to the efficiency of the armed services , and it was concern over this that led to the passing of the Contagious Diseases Acts ( in 1864 , 1866 , 1869 ) . |
| 21 | What then has made debt the single most pressing problem for CAB clients in the late 1980s ? |
| 22 | Borrowing an idea from the fiercely competitive US market , ITN has made McDonald the sole anchorman but his role seems not so much to read the news as to make it simple for the viewer before the reporter fills the story out . |
| 23 | THE IMPORTANCE of Hengist 's Saxon town and the ancient university made Stamford the ideal location for the siting of the Mercian court and government . |
| 24 | Furthermore , 12,5000 shipping connections a year to some 1,000 ports make Rotterdam the ideal port to serve all of your international markets worldwide . |
| 25 | Adam of Bremen reports that Cnut had intended Swegen to rule Norway , Harthacnut Denmark , and Harold England , and the Historia Regum attributed to Symeon of Durham that he made Harold the English king , but the Encomium says that he not only promised Emma that any son of hers should be heir , but later on oath pledged the whole kingdom subject to him to Harthacnut , who received oaths of loyalty from English nobles . |
| 26 | When the first English settlers sailed up the Chesapeake Bay on America 's eastern coast , they found an estuary worthy of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 's fable — vast , limpid and dense with marine life , sustained by the unique mix of brackish water and nutrients that make estuaries the richest marine incubators in the world . |
| 27 | The resolution would maintain a military imbalance which " made Israel the dominant aggressive power in the region " . |
| 28 | ‘ It is difficult ’ , the study concludes , ‘ to see how such an ill-conceived , ill-equipped , under-funded project could ever have been successful , ’ Of KME , it recalls that , in the face of advice that a proposal which made job-preservation the paramount consideration was likely to fail , Mr Benn decided to advance £3.9 million by way of assistance provided under Section 7 of the 1972 Industry Act . |
| 29 | The museum at Wardown Park ( north of the town centre ) has tools and products of straw-plaiters and hat-makers , for the local expertise in straw plaiting made Luton the chief centre of the straw-hat industry . |
| 30 | The new law , passed by the National Assembly on Dec. 26 , made Arabic the national language and exacted stiff fines for using anything else in official transactions and in schools . |