Example sentences of "made the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of it was clearly new to them , and er , they made the right responses . |
| 2 | If the right hon. Gentleman begins to listen to what many employers elsewhere in Europe are saying , he will learn that they recognise that we made the right decisions . |
| 3 | And it surely is som something that the people of Wiltshire can be glad that they made the right decisions in May , that they have n't got that administration , |
| 4 | ‘ I 'll have a lot of time to go back over the past in the coming years , I suppose , wonder whether I made the right choices at the right time . ’ |
| 5 | The egalitarian implications of this announcement led the Governor-General of Moscow to ask the tsar for clarification , with the result that on 30 March Alexander made the oral remarks which are usually taken to represent the beginning of the emancipation process . |
| 6 | But only the very superior pugilists made the ultimate escapes and so it was in every boxing slave 's interest to wring out his best efforts on every occasion . |
| 7 | The gait of the creatures that made the four sets of trails has been described in detail , two weeks ago , at a conference in Berkeley , California . |
| 8 | She made the mischievous eyes look at her and one finger pointed at the ladybird , another drew her gaze downwards to the lake . |
| 9 | Words came into my ears and my fingers made the appropriate movements . |
| 10 | He made the appropriate motions . |
| 11 | A serious blow , of course , was also dealt to the reputation of the Labour Party , which controlled many of the councils with the greatest needs and which made the heaviest demands on the public purse , and whose members were least apologetic about doing so . |
| 12 | The ones who made the best records with the least effort , took the most drugs , gatecrashed the best parties and got involved with the strangest people . |
| 13 | Tom Mann believed that they made the best pickets of all . |
| 14 | I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him . |
| 15 | He maintained that an interest in chemistry was inborn in Germans , who also possessed a ‘ cold-blooded spirit of research , slow but accurate reflection and unremitting patience ’ , which made the best chemists . |
| 16 | He engaged Jonathan Otley to do the scientific work necessary for his guide books , and John Gough made the botanical notes required . |
| 17 | They were in cupboards , boxes , bags , under beds , in drawers , behind cushions , and even in the big soup pan where she made the marvellous soups . |
| 18 | This period therefore saw the culmination of tendencies already visible in previous generations which made the diplomatic services of Europe more technically efficient than ever before . |
| 19 | Agricultural prosperity rested on secure tenures that made the substantial farmers feel themselves to be full proprietors . |
| 20 | From Bonn it heads north across the relatively flat north German plain , but southward it has to cut its way through the hard rocks of the Taunus range where narrow gorges once made the upper reaches of the river dangerous to navigate . |
| 21 | France 's Algerian policy was his policy , not only in the sense that he made the critical decisions about when and how to launch an initiative or offer a concession , but because he personified the policy . |
| 22 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 23 | Primitive Methodists made the greatest strides of all : the number of their ministers without any college training fell by 60 per cent while the number with , rose by 59 per cent . |
| 24 | If redundancy was the leading form of change to 1981 , it was gains in productivity that made the greatest inroads from then . |
| 25 | It was in the elaboration of its programme rather than in its Parliamentary Opposition or in campaigns in the country , that the Labour Party made the greatest advances in recovering from its collapse . |
| 26 | He might not have involved himself too much in the day-to-day running of the club , yet I was never in any doubt as to who made the final decisions . |
| 27 | Delays in the announcing of results made the final results unclear , but the trend indicated a decisive rejection of President Carlos Andrés Pérez . |
| 28 | Next door , in the mirror of the basement cloakroom of Canon Wheeler 's house , Julia made the final adjustments to a maid 's uniform . |
| 29 | John 's mother , Maria , who had often earned her living as a seamstress , made the lavish costumes ; the cream-coloured dresses made up in a pinafore smock style reaching just below the knee . |
| 30 | The film stars Sir John Gielgud and is directed by John G. Avildsen , the man who made the Rocky blockbusters into box-office hits around the world . |