Example sentences of "has made a [noun sg] " 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 | ( ii ) has had a bankruptcy order made against him or has made a composition or arrangement with his creditors or has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part VIII of the Insolvency Act 1986 or is or has been a director of a company in respect of which an administration order under Part II of the Insolvency Act 1986 or a winding-up order has been made or in respect of which a resolution for voluntary winding up has been passed or which has made a proposal for a voluntary arrangement under Part I of the Insolvency Act 1986 or in respect of which a person has been appointed receiver or administrative receiver ; or |
| 6 | LASMO is one of the three companies which has made a gas discovery about six miles east of Scarborough off the Yorkshire coast . |
| 7 | Stephen Czerkas is an amateur American paleontologist who has made a name for himself by reconstructing lifelike models of dinosaurs . |
| 8 | Swindon has made a name for itself attracting overseas investment into Britain , American , Japanese and German . |
| 9 | ‘ Darlington has made a name for itself with imaginative use of housing capital . |
| 10 | The manufacture of a five-pronged manual implement for manual digging results in a fork even if the manufacturer , unfamiliar with the English language , insists that he intended to make and has made a spade . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Yet clearly the Philippines has made a breakthrough . |
| 13 | Terry Butcher , the former England centre half who was sacked as Coventry 's player-manager earlier in the season , has made a surprise comeback as a player . |
| 14 | WIMBLEDON champion Andre Agassi has made a surprise appearance at the All England Lawn Tennis Club for lunch . |
| 15 | Now in sporting legend the All Blacks take some beating … but when it comes to the greatest in any sport … there 's just one name … that 's Muhammed Ali … he 's over here at the moment and has made a surprise call on an Oxfordshire man reckoned to be his number one fan . |
| 16 | Like his men , he has made a blanket-roll to carry immediate necessities rather than burdening himself with a blanket bag or other form of knapsack . |
| 17 | Until now the Magistrate had been in the position of a scientist who has made a discovery which he knows to be true but is unable to prove . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Monte Samana is his , I know that now , and he deserves his profits , because he has made a holiday place that sits on the side of the hill as though it were set there by the Spaniards themselves , the Andalusians and the descendants of the Moors . ’ |
| 20 | The government has made a mess of its showpiece , the privatisation of the profitable Muslim Commercial Bank . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | TOP rugby coach Mostyn Richards has made a plea for all clubs to back fully the Mid-Wales District representative team . |
| 27 | After meeting staff he has made a plea to agency chiefs to delay the transfer so that full consultations can take place . |
| 28 | BIRDS OF A FEATHER actor Peter Polycarpou has made a shock admission . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | For example , when Dostoevsky abandons the ‘ At Tikhon 's ’ chapter but retains the brief exchange in which Shatov urges Stavrogin to go to Bishop Tikhon , and Stavrogin replies ‘ Thank you , I will ’ , let nobody persuade us the novelist has made a mistake . |