Example sentences of "make a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , you 're , you 're made a laugh of are n't you ? |
| 2 | ‘ Yes , Pip , dear boy , I 've made a gentleman of you ! |
| 3 | The danger is if Mr X had entered into that transaction partly with a view to avoiding tax then the entire gross income without any deduction for trustee expenses and indeed ( in strictness ) for the payments of interest under the loan will be taxed upon Mr X. He would have made a transfer of an asset . |
| 4 | He has n't made a semblance of a mistake . |
| 5 | The campus was fenny-flat , laid out like a kind of chess-board , redeemed by an imaginative water-gardener who had made a maze of channels and pools , randomly flowing across and around the rectangular grid . |
| 6 | ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) . |
| 7 | 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 . " |
| 8 | In all four schools , participation in the project had made a range of departments and a number of individual teachers look closely at their existing library resources for the purposes of stock editing and selection . |
| 9 | It noted that Ealing Council , which , like Hounslow , is Labour-controlled , had made a grant of £50,000 , and listed a number of events : ‘ April 1986 , organised a meeting at Southall Town Hall on the seventh anniversary of Blair Peach 's death , called for full inquiry … |
| 10 | So many people have benefited from its help that this year the parish council have made a grant of nearly £2,000 to see that its work continues in the village . |
| 11 | 7–10–1874 The trustees of the late James Bannatyne had made a grant of £100 to assist in employing a Catechist and the money was lodged with the Greenock Board of Police at 4% interest , to be drawn as required . |
| 12 | He had stood for them all , when he was made a hero of the Soviet Union by Stalin himself . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 15 | In recent years this has been more widely recognized and both doctors and nurses have increasingly made a specialty of the care of the aged . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In addition to the oratory provided by Havelock Wilson , the NAS&FU also made a contribution of £pound100 to strike funds and encouraged various branches of the Seamen 's Union throughout Australia to donate over £pound1,000 . |
| 18 | One thousand babies later , in April 1919 , Edith Pye departed , one of very few women to have been made a chévalier of the Legion of Honour . |
| 19 | I 'm not really computer literate , I 've probably made a botch of things , and will most certainly use incorrect terminology ; please forgive ! |
| 20 | ‘ I think it can be made a kind of elective institution . |
| 21 | Indeed most of them had made a kind of negative progress . |
| 22 | And he drew it out actually , remember he 's only six , seven years old and what he 'd done was to put this spring loaded hanger into the back of the tube and he 'd made a kind of trigger with a little , little plastic peg , and he said here 's your gun ! |
| 23 | The South-West , who beat London last year , have made a total of three changes , choosing the Plymouth wing Steve Walklin instead of Peter Blackett of Bath , and bringing in the Bath lock Nigel Redman in place of his club-mate John Morrison . |
| 24 | Most outstanding orders were completed , but two Extra Large Bloomers were cancelled , which would have made a total of five of that class . |
| 25 | Once he had made a crown of poppies for her hair and a daisy chain for her neck , and she had danced all the way home , feeling like a princess . |
| 26 | If Hollywood ever made a film of it ( Ha ! ) , it would doubtless finish with violins , smiles and tears of joy all round . |
| 27 | Today we 'll hear from polytechnic lecturer Reg James , who 's just made a film of the special needs Brickwall School , and from local remedial tutor Dave Pollock , who 'll give us some suggestions for teacing dyslexic children . |
| 28 | Her life is over-emphasized — ‘ blooming ’ , her freshness — ‘ dew ’ , and her exceeding fairness ; the ‘ fountain' , clearly made a symbol of life in the poem of that title , ‘ trips ’ 'from its rocky cave' — possibly in association with ‘ basket ’ a reference to the return of Proserpine from the underworld , combining the idea of spring and the return of a daughter . |
| 29 | One of the organisations has made a pledge of £25,000 to the appeal . |
| 30 | One of the accusations concerned Aldo Fortí , appointed to adjudicate on the bids for the La Paz Hotel ( formerly the Sheraton ) , who had allegedly made a present of a hacienda ( large farm ) to Zamora . |