Example sentences of "make [noun prp] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the 1960s the oil boom made Venezuela the country to emigrate to , and it was a common occurrence for the emigrant who made good to hire a large American car ( Cadillac or similar ) and to return to Madeira by ship with the car . |
| 2 | Coal from the valleys of south Wales made Cardiff the world 's leading coal-exporting port . |
| 3 | Relaxed laws make Vegas the home of quickie weddings , although Jackson himself has never had a girlfriend . |
| 4 | We know that another Jewish Egyptian historian of the second century B.C. , Artapanus , made Moses the originator of the Egyptian cult of animals ( Eus . |
| 5 | Success in key areas has made Germany the world leader in the export of manufactured goods . |
| 6 | She slept , with something of her old determination , in order to be awake when he came ; and often she wanted to talk : about Bruges ; about the past ; about all the foolish exploits that had made Claes the apprentice notorious — the jokes with the gun and the waterwheel ; the chases , the skating ; the escapade with the ostrich . |
| 7 | It ends a deal that would have made BA the world 's biggest airline , flying 80 million passengers to 340 cities in 71 countries . |
| 8 | The inevitable long loose mackintosh and knitted scarf were in evidence , which along with his totally bald head had long made Sammy the victim of local humour . |
| 9 | When in 1574 , Rudolf II made Prague the capital of the Holy Roman Empire , he gave the Jews yet greater security . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 11 | The shows that top the ratings are soft , for example we make Rupert the Bear and that gets a 60 per cent share of the kids ’ audience . ’ |
| 12 | The order follows one placed earlier this year for fourteen Tampicos , and will make Embry-Riddle the world 's largest fleet operator of Aerospatiale light aircraft . |
| 13 | Versace dazzled with psychedelic prints , Dolce & Gabbana sent corsets disguised as frocks shrieking down the catwalk and even the conservative Genny showed micro-skirted green and orange checks instead of the restrained tailoring that made them , made Milan … made Italy the world 's leading fashion force . |
| 14 | Yet the successful launch of the first Diamant A rocket with its rudimentary A I ‘ Asterix ’ satellite ( or space capsule ) nonetheless made France the world 's third power in space — a feat achieved eight years after the Russians but with minimal resources compared with those of the Russians or the Americans . |
| 15 | It is the original India Pale Ale that made Burton the brewing centre of Britain . |
| 16 | It was the Quaker ironmaster Abraham Darby ( q.v. ) who first used this method successfully here in 1709 , and in so doing , he made Coalbrookdale the cradle of the Industrial Revolution and Shropshire — for a time — the centre of the industrial world , with ideal coal deposits at hand to give the area a head start in the production of pig-iron . |
| 17 | Two weeks later Sarah told Mrs Bradford that she would have to leave , making Maggie the excuse . |
| 18 | Although Cornwall was not the only county where nothing less than 40s. was reckoned as substance , the making of an independent return by each hundred resulted in five sets of officials taking different views of the native poor , the complement of which tapered off from the modest ( 15 per cent ) in the eastern parts to the negligible ( 0.4 per cent ) in the far west , balanced to some extent by aliens , who were classed as poor and accounted for one-eighth of this category , making Penwith the antithesis of East hundred , notwithstanding that many who were subsequently taxed in Kerrier hundred were passed over in 1522 . |
| 19 | However 1 per cent of a very large and expanding GNP produces a significant total , making Japan the world 's ninth biggest military spender . |
| 20 | Marcellus met with opposition from conservative senators , who accused him of making Rome the object of envy , and of corrupting the populace with a taste for leisure and idle chat . |
| 21 | ‘ The Blue Angel ’ is , of course , set in Germany , while Shakespeare , rather surprisingly , made Vienna the scene of ‘ Measure for Measure ’ . |
| 22 | Under twenty years of military rule , its output has grown to make Brazil the world 's largest agricultural exporter after the United States . |
| 23 | The Druids by their widespread influence in high places were able to make Boudica the focus and figurehead of all anti-Roman feeling . |
| 24 | Part of the push to make Tuxedo the OLTP standard is coming from a group of seventeen Tuxedo reseller/licencees known simply as ‘ The Club . ’ |
| 25 | The fame of Peter Abelard had helped to make Paris the centre of the intellectual world of the twelfth century , the Mecca of all students . |
| 26 | Help us Lord , to live a hundred percent for you ; fill us with the Holy Spirit , and help us to make Jesus the centre of our life and work every day , wherever You have called us to be . |
| 27 | This has worked in the past : in 1990 the indignation of the world 's intelligentsia stopped the plan to make Venice the site of Expo 2000 when most Italians had resigned themselves to its being inevitable . |
| 28 | That makes China the world 's second-biggest economy . |
| 29 | He will happily talk about his films and what makes Jack the performer that he is , but now he rarely allows interviewers into his private territory . |
| 30 | And the apologist who might wish to make Huxley the aggressor should know that one observer , the zoologist Alfred Newton , clearly reported that it was Huxley who had first been chaffed by the bishop . |