Example sentences of "make a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , you 're , you 're made a laugh of are n't you ? |
| 2 | He submitted that the order itself had made a compromise because it contained the words ‘ counterclaim withdrawn ’ and because it dealt with the rent so that the plaintiffs had no further claim in respect of it . |
| 3 | So there was a further delay in operations until February this year , when the single made yet another appearance and ultimately made a reacquaintance with the UK Top Ten , sparking off talks of that Madness reunion . |
| 4 | ‘ Yes , Pip , dear boy , I 've made a gentleman of you ! |
| 5 | Where the beneficiary 's interest comes to an end to any extent or is in any way disposed of during his lifetime , then unless he becomes at the same time beneficially entitled to the property in which the interest subsisted or to another interest in possession in it CTT is to be charged as if he had made a transfer ( Continued on page 129 ) of value at that time and the value transferred had been equal to the value of the property in which the interest subsisted . |
| 6 | The danger is if Mr X had entered into that transaction partly with a view to avoiding tax then the entire gross income without any deduction for trustee expenses and indeed ( in strictness ) for the payments of interest under the loan will be taxed upon Mr X. He would have made a transfer of an asset . |
| 7 | He has n't made a semblance of a mistake . |
| 8 | As well as his chemical discoveries he had made a reputation for himself from his electrical investigations . |
| 9 | It 's not at all what I thought it would be I just made a bloomer there . |
| 10 | The campus was fenny-flat , laid out like a kind of chess-board , redeemed by an imaginative water-gardener who had made a maze of channels and pools , randomly flowing across and around the rectangular grid . |
| 11 | Like his suitors , he has never made a BBC programme . |
| 12 | By the following morning my father and the doctor had made a plan for his escape . |
| 13 | Best of all , they had made a plan together . |
| 14 | ( His fecklessness was on an appealingly grand scale : when he was made a yeoman of the guard , responsible for fire-fighting equipment , his negligence permitted the fire which burnt down the Houses of Parliament ) . |
| 15 | Women of that age , she 'd read somewhere , often made a push for one final fling . |
| 16 | It had to be made a crusade , and so it was . |
| 17 | I know that I 'm being unfair to you and to Virginia , but what I feel for you — what I have always felt for you — has made a weakling of me . " |
| 18 | Must have made a mint out of the wars . |
| 19 | Extreme have made a concept album ( Rule One of life : All concept albums are shit ) . |
| 20 | SPEAKER of the House of Commons , Betty Boothroyd , has yet again made a change in the running of Westminster , by ensuring that menus for her official dinners are written in English instead of French , the traditional language of banquets . |
| 21 | Silver Reed knitters will find we 've made a change in their favourite feature . |
| 22 | The adult has made a change to the array — introduced garages irrelevant to the number of cars . |
| 23 | She had made a change in her life , broken away from her mother . |
| 24 | and that 's where it should be nice made a change did n't they ? |
| 25 | In all four schools , participation in the project had made a range of departments and a number of individual teachers look closely at their existing library resources for the purposes of stock editing and selection . |
| 26 | It was the first time two West Indian batsmen had made a century stand for the sixth wicket in each innings of a Test and it took the game right away from England ; when the last wicket fell , Logie was left unbeaten on 95 , the score was 397 , and England had to survive for the best part of two days . |
| 27 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |
| 28 | Attempts by " several gentlemen " to end these customs had been of little avail for a complaint of a very similar kind was still being made a century later . |
| 29 | It noted that Ealing Council , which , like Hounslow , is Labour-controlled , had made a grant of £50,000 , and listed a number of events : ‘ April 1986 , organised a meeting at Southall Town Hall on the seventh anniversary of Blair Peach 's death , called for full inquiry … |
| 30 | So many people have benefited from its help that this year the parish council have made a grant of nearly £2,000 to see that its work continues in the village . |