Example sentences of "[adv] made [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ambition and power could not be swayed by love or foolish dreams , and the message was not lost on Rachel as she faced the reality of her marriage now that the honeymoon — how clichés suddenly made sense ! — was over . |
| 2 | Laski suggested that it was ‘ probably undesirable ’ for law officers to be suddenly made judges and so required to act impartially . |
| 3 | The energy crisis has suddenly made governments show extraordinary interest in investing large sums in research into alternative energy sources . |
| 4 | Rather , town planning became involved in other environmental and social concerns almost by chance , though its claim for a comprehensive , synoptic view of things perhaps made expansionism inevitable . |
| 5 | The Police , said Nicky , had no idea who was responsible , so made routine inquiries of Glasgow 's known villains . |
| 6 | Then John had more or less made fun of him . |
| 7 | That there had been no time to prepare for a gradual hand-over of power , to make plans for social , political , economic and military integration , only made things worse . |
| 8 | The report in the Bude and Stratton Post , headlined MAROONED ON ROCK only made things worse . |
| 9 | The fact that Carlo was sitting next to her , overhearing the conversation , indolently gazing round the table or raising his glass to sip the delights of the Princesse 's cellar , only made things worse . |
| 10 | Knowing he was in the right , that she had taken a stupid risk , only made things worse . |
| 11 | The driver revved the motor but that only made things worse . |
| 12 | That all this was long gone and impossible to recover , except through industrialisation , social change and arduous struggle with a resilient and increasingly nationalist foe only made life in the eastern borders even more frustrating . |
| 13 | The Office of Management and Budget defined emergency spending as " a necessary expenditure that is sudden , urgent and unforeseen , and is not permanent " ; to date , Bush had only made emergency declarations to aid Kurdish refugees in Iraq , to pay benefits for Gulf war veterans , and to bail out the savings and loan industry [ see p. 38090 ] . |
| 14 | Rather , it is the case that people with a fairly strong religious tradition may react to crises by turning back to the traditional patterns of belief which not only made sense of their individual predicaments but which also created a strong sense of communal solidarity . |
| 15 | The choice of the Waterside railway station as an assembly point only made sense if the sole criterion was the convenience of demonstrators coming from other parts of Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | And though she cherished the times when Friend soared in companionship beside her through forever , always — reluctantly , it seemed sometimes , but always — he would pluck new motes of light and weave them into new shapes for her to read , but the shapes only made sense in their beauty , not in the real world where the coarseness of eating and cleaning and going to the toilet squashed the meanings out of the corners of her eyes . |
| 17 | But such reconciliatory action only made matters worse , reawakening hostilities in the Marne . |
| 18 | And Charles 's stubborn attitude has only made matters worse . |
| 19 | While any Japanese involvement in Manchuria remained there was no hope of a rapprochement between China and Japan , and the presence of Japanese interests and troops in China only made matters worse . |
| 20 | I tried to look sympathetic but that only made matters worse and the fellow waved his fingers in the air as a sign for us to go and , turning his back , resumed his prayers . |
| 21 | The Grand Trunk Canal ( 1766–77 ) not only made use of aqueducts , cuttings and embankments , but was carried through the hill country between the Mersey and Trent basins by means of five tunnels , of which the Harecastle Tunnel near Kidsgrove was 2,880 yards long and more than two hundred feet beneath the surface at its deepest point . |
| 22 | She 'd only made 60p that day . |
| 23 | The proximity of Tribschen to Basle obviously made contact easier , but it was undoubtedly Nietzsche 's new professional eminence that made it particularly welcome to Wagner and led to a rapid development of the relationship between the two . |
| 24 | The way the press attacked it and so on obviously made life a lot harder for us . |
| 25 | Developers are already cottoning on to the trend by building houses with ready made work rooms . |
| 26 | ready made curtains |
| 27 | And if you want to collect ready made salad type things from M&S I am sure you can eat in on some evenings by arrangement , depending on our social plans . |
| 28 | In the first place , it was quite useless to preach ready made doctrine to them . |
| 29 | Well , that does n't sound too exciting , because basically you 're ending up with transcripts , well , ready made transcripts . |
| 30 | Ready made greenwash is provided in Welsh crafts : homemade scones and slate dragons replace coal and steel as major Welsh exports . |