Example sentences of "make a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ She has made a super fitness video and the advance royalties together with her earnings from a Swedish TV chat show have helped financially , but they are not enough to maintain her in Beverly Hills luxury . |
| 2 | I 'd made my usual lousy start , Niki had made a reasonable one and Clay [ Regazzoni ] had made a super start . |
| 3 | Consequently , there is a nostalgia for traditional values , and it is to the socially threatened lower middle class , and to the respectable working class that the Conservative Party has made a moral appeal . |
| 4 | Secondly , we should have made a moral commitment to the single currency . |
| 5 | Most importantly , punk had made a negligible impression in America , the world 's largest market , where 50 per cent of all records are sold . |
| 6 | The US company backed with British money has made a hasty deal to put its much-publicised camera on general sale in Britain after Easter . |
| 7 | Trade sanctions have been threatened and copyright has been made a high-profile issue in international negotiations . |
| 8 | This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock . |
| 9 | Bridgend 's other scoring star , fly-half Aled Williams , has made a sparkling start to the season with 160 points from 12 games — including 23 against Cross Keys , 27 against London Welsh and 30 against Glamorgan Wanderers . |
| 10 | If Emerson had had the finance to develop a team properly , if his brother had been a better manager and if Emerson himself had not become frustrated as a driver by his car 's constant failures and retirements , if , in short , he had got his act together , he would quite possibly have made a first-class constructor and been hailed as a Brazilian Ferrari or Chapman . |
| 11 | But the chilly economic climate has made a tricky situation desperate , in two respects . |
| 12 | She 'd made a helpless gesture with one beautifully manicured hand . |
| 13 | But former deputy leader Roy Hattersley has already made a defiant call for a return to traditional Labour values . |
| 14 | I I observe that the Liberal Democrats have made a complete U turn in their previous adherence to providing a steady stream of services to the people of Oxford , and by setting for a budget below the capping level you are taking out of funds available to people things that do n't necessarily have to be taken out . |
| 15 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 16 | It was quite another to feel she had made a complete fool of herself and taken her daughter alone so far from the safety of Four Winds . |
| 17 | I 've made a complete fool of myself and I do n't think I can bring myself to ask what I came to . " |
| 18 | She had made a complete fool of herself and had successfully lived down to every low opinion that Piers harboured about her . |
| 19 | THE CANADIAN government has made a complete about-face over the regulation of private satellite-TV dishes . |
| 20 | Had he kicked three more penalties during the Bledisloe Cup series instead of watching them rebound off the posts or miss by a whisker , Fox 's average would have been identical to Hodgkinson 's twenty-eight points from his last two matches amounts to ample proof that he has made a complete recovery from the doldrums of Dublin last October when he spoke of retirement in the immediate aftermath of the All Blacks losing their titles . |
| 21 | She 's since made a complete recovery and Mona 's consultant says she ows everything to Janet . |
| 22 | ‘ Well , he seems to have made a complete balls of it , ’ said Sir Harry . |
| 23 | Well possibly and less likely to enjoy it , I mean I 've made a complete failure of my life , so I 'm , I 'm not and I never really enjoyed from the beginning I must say |
| 24 | None of these investments has yet made a decent return . |
| 25 | It will be made a London-based company , Blue Heaven Productions , for the ITV network . |
| 26 | Despite his remark that ‘ The superego seems to have made a one-sided choice and to have picked out only the parents ’ strictness and severity , their prohibiting and punitive function , whereas their loving care seems not to have been taken over and maintained , ’ he states elsewhere that ‘ The superego fulfils the same function of protecting and saving that was fulfilled in earlier days by the father . ’ |
| 27 | Thus the advance is made a split second after discerning the opponent 's attack . |
| 28 | President Bush has made a major concession to industry over the implementation of the new Clean Air Act , overturning a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) . |
| 29 | There was a hint that this was a short term strategy , Mao at the seventh national congress in April nineteen forty five argued the C C P has made a major concession to land to the tiller . |
| 30 | But then why would Mao in nineteen forty five say that how that they 'd made a major concession to land to the tiller but that this is a correct one and they 're going to , that land reform has to be taken in stages and they 're going to first of all reduce rent and , I mean er |