Example sentences of "made the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who has made the highest aggregate number of runs in a career which has not included a score of 300 ? |
| 2 | Arguably the blinder kinds of sexual radicalism , wherein sexuality is made the prime political mover , have tended to be mainly heterosexual , and in the case of Wilhelm Reich , overtly homophobic . |
| 3 | The Liberal government before the First World War had made the first tentative steps in the introduction of old-age pensions ( 1908 ) and national health and unemployment insurance ( 1911 ) . |
| 4 | She had come to painting late but after the exhibition of ‘ Angela ’ in 1900 , an Impressionistic portrait of a woman at a mantelpiece in a shimmering , full-skirted dress , she was made the first female member of the New English Art Club . |
| 5 | SENIOR office-bearers in one of the Scottish National Party 's Lanarkshire branches have made the first formal call for the party leader , Alex Salmond , to resign . |
| 6 | Sir John Cockroft , the Director of Harwell , had won a Nobel Prize for his 1932 work where , with the prototype high energy nuclear accelerator , he and Ernest Walton had made the first artificial disintegration , or fission , of atomic nuclei . |
| 7 | Dave Walsh and Roger Mear have made the first British ascent of mighty Nanga Parbat , 8,165 metres . |
| 8 | Latest news from the expedition to climb Ultar , Pakistan 's highest unclimbed summit at nearly 7,300 metres , is that while no result has emerged from the tussle with the main objective , Mick Fowler and Craig Jones have made the first British ascents of Bublimiting ( 5,750 metres ) and Hunza Peak ( 6,250 metres ) . |
| 9 | News from France is that recent Peak immigrant Felicity Butler has just made the first British female ascent of an F7c . |
| 10 | Hateley made his England debut as a substitute in a Wembley defeat by the USSR in June , 1984 , and looked to have made the central striking role his own with nine goals . |
| 11 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 12 | But his sudden withdrawing of his Fourth Symphony and his artist 's response in his Fifth Symphony had made the young revolutionary acutely aware of the precarious role of the creative artist in Stalin 's Soviet Union . |
| 13 | Of course we now know that the intelligence Ultra was providing should have made the Allied High Command — too complacent and overconfident — much more wary of committing their lightly-armed airborne forces to Operation Market Garden . |
| 14 | I always donate to these organisations and have benefited to the extent that organisations like THT , Body Positive and LAGER have made the general public aware of the infection and have made some employers take it into account . |
| 15 | His father , annoyed that he had n't followed family tradition and become a solicitor , had made the hoary old joke about marrying a rich man 's daughter . |
| 16 | For economic or social reasons ( plus a sweet tooth ? ) it was they who seem to have made the biggest dietary switch from meat , fish and wild plants to largely maize , which , being rich in carbohydrates , caused their teeth to decay more markedly than before . |
| 17 | A warm family atmosphere has made the Massi popular for many years . |
| 18 | It is not clear whether the transition from one quite understandable activity to another that would have made the old commercial librarians blush even to contemplate ( one thinks of Day 's library ticket with its ‘ Scarce books and books out of print carefully searched for ’ ) was simply a question of the slippery slope in a semi-literate world . |
| 19 | We made two hundred and forty five pounds on Thriller of the Year one hundred and nineteen pounds on Tea for Two but that is after we 've made the three hundred pounds donation to Whiston Hospital we made a thousand and eighteen pounds on the panto Wuthering Heights we lost four hundred and nine pounds , but that was basically that we do costume plays and have to hire the erm fixtures and set pieces from Wrightsons or wherever we 're always going to be in this position and I think it 's the tradition of the Garrick that we continue to do them , and I think we have to accept that we may have losses in future on those particular erm things . |
| 20 | Bobby Robson has made the three expected alterations to the team that began the 0-0 draw in Sweden last month . |
| 21 | The subsequent growth of Teheran had made the previous royal quarters in town too cramped and after an attempt on the Shah life in 19965 , on of several that he survived , the family had moved to Niavaran . |
| 22 | For the first time Camilla has made the top 20 in the 1992 league table of Christian names , entering the spotlight at No 13 . |
| 23 | Susan came downstairs for the first time on Christmas Eve , and was genuinely delighted to see how pretty Breeze had made the sombre old dining-room . |
| 24 | Jewish and Muslim mystics had also made the same radical claim . |
| 25 | And the teacher , too , might have made the same terrible mistake that she had made back in Teheran all those years before . |
| 26 | His first impression of Galvone had been of a mobster , but Newman had met other reasonably honest Americans holding high positions who had made the same initial impression . |
| 27 | At only 14 , she had made the national junior side ( in 1970 ) and , by 1973 , she was the European junior champion , but , she reckoned , at a cost : |