Example sentences of "[adj] and made " in BNC.
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| 1 | Justin Lekhanya , who seized power in 1986 from the then Prime Minister Chief Leabua Jonathan , was himself led into the studio of Radio Lesotho by troops on April 30 and made to broadcast his own resignation as Chairman of the six-member ruling Military Council . |
| 2 | They would has/e swum naked only Rufus 's father had discovered them doing this and made a fuss out of all proportion to the offence , if offence it was . |
| 3 | He was always extremely proud of this and made a point of being known as Dr Dresser . |
| 4 | next year compared to this and made further increases which will bring the programme to over £450 million in 1994-95 . |
| 5 | The plan contained no hint of tax revenues to pay for all this and made only passing reference to budgetary requirements and credit policy . |
| 6 | The Thatcher government in the 1980s recognized this and made reducing the PSBR the central feature of its medium-term financial strategy . |
| 7 | The sound was strident and made the hair curl on the back of his neck . |
| 8 | The Queen delighted in his preaching and made him Dean of Westminster . |
| 9 | Herodotus says that a rich Lydian called Pythios tried to get his son exempted from the draft by entertaining the king magnificently ; but the king had the young man sliced in half and made the army march between the pieces ( Hdt. vii.27f . ) . |
| 10 | She folded the silver square of wrapping paper in half and made it into a little boat . |
| 11 | Inside it was cool and restful , with honey-coloured stone tiles covering a huge entrance hall , where she 'd promptly dropped her suitcase and flight-bag and made a dive for the kitchen and the fridge to quench her raging thirst . |
| 12 | Nails and Hoomey wriggled free and made off like hares and by the time the opposition had refocussed on Seb as main aggressor rather than Jazz a police car was cruising to a standstill alongside and a new element was introduced . |
| 13 | ‘ The FA should have been brave and made a decision either to eliminate Peterborough or allow the 9-1 result to stand . |
| 14 | Some are direct and made up of straight lines , others meander around ; in some the electron moves fast , in others it dawdles . |
| 15 | Throughout the colonial period they made little use of the judicial system set up by the British and made few requests of their administrators . |
| 16 | So after a year 's preliminary investigation they moved the charter and their centre of government to Boston ( Massachusetts , though named after the East Anglian port ) in 1630 and made it clear that they intended to cut off all official connection with the English government . |
| 17 | It is normally unlined and made as one short curtain rather than as a pair . |
| 18 | The carpet beneath her feet was , she thought , an antique Persian , its deep blues and maroons softened and made even lovelier by decades of use . |
| 19 | He looked slightly embarrassed and made no answering comment . |
| 20 | The room seemed very quin as he closed the volume and selected another and made himself turn its unseen pages for ten more minutes . |
| 21 | So the 700 Goldman Sachs employees can look forward to an extensive selection of cold starters , salads and both pre-packed and made to order sandwiches , gateaux , cakes , yoghurts and fruit as well as a wide range of non-alcoholic beverages , in attractive surroundings . |
| 22 | ‘ Mark has done well in pre-season and made it difficult for me because Dublin has also done quite well . |
| 23 | Lehmann was born in 1888 and made her début in 1910 . |
| 24 | The justices adjourned the matter for the trial to take place on June 19 , 1991 and made orders prohibiting publication of the defendant 's name and address and those of his business and the allegations made against him . |
| 25 | Li Peng paid a visit to North Korea in May 1991 and made a tour of South-East Asia in August 1990 and of the Middle East in July 1991 . |
| 26 | Once the contraceptive pill ( invented in 1952 ) had become available and accepted and made any further baby boom unlikely , years of frustrated and dammed-up feminism were ready to burst in the new wave of women 's liberation . |
| 27 | He again pushed his tee shot into trees on the second and made five , which was a par this time . |
| 28 | Two was blurry and made her anxious . |
| 29 | Training and Enterprise Councils will be retained , reformed and made more broadly representative of their local communities and given stable budgets . |
| 30 | ‘ It was partly the Welshness of it all which appealed to her — the wool is grown , spun , woven and made up here in Wales , but it was also her feeling that in the commercial life everything was grab , grab , grab and here was a little corner of the world where she could do a bit of good . ’ |