Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] made " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is exactly the same tension that made The Smiths a success , and in their low-key way I suspect that Felt will keep some of the same cult appeal now they are gone . |
| 32 | He swung away from her , walking over to the edge of the small pond , his body rigid with a tension that made her afraid to do or say anything that might unleash that anger once again . |
| 33 | Of the 16 funds that made up our Global Strategy umbrella fund when it was launched five years ago , no less than four have come first in their respective sectors over this period , according to Finstat . |
| 34 | Was it this kind of intrusion that made Jean-Claude anxious ? |
| 35 | The fact that many made inquiries so early in secondment suggests an anxiety about the future that made for insecurity rather than stabilisation . |
| 36 | It was of a man ; huge , encrusted with bony protrusions that made the head appear square , as though he was wearing a helmet . |
| 37 | His bulk created an intimacy in the small workroom that made her wary , and the atmosphere , just for a moment , became charged , until he gave a little grimace which dispelled it . |
| 38 | The vast majority of the biomedical research that made this possible was carried out on animals . |
| 39 | Mischief or discontent , a hard master or some family tragedy that made home hateful to them had shuffled together these jacks and knaves . |
| 40 | He put little slips of paper in the entries that made up his fragile narrative or non-narrative . |
| 41 | It was Smarties that made the coloured hand prints on the wall ; with Smarty ‘ buns ’ she would charm all the grown-ups , and with Smarty ‘ prezzies ’ they would encourage her performances and tricks ; with Smarties she would entertain her invisible friends ; Smarties bribed her to bed , to bath , to the toilet . |
| 42 | It was the United States ' adamant policy with respect to the PLO that made the latter 's relations with Moscow so robust . |
| 43 | The only other study that made corrections for pyloric loss and duodenogastric reflux came to conclusions that are the same as ours . |
| 44 | Michele was answering with a brevity that made it abundantly clear that he was disinclined to talk about the sculptor . |
| 45 | In modern times the Spanish aristocracy has given little cultural leadership : in the late eighteenth century the few esprit forts who corresponded with Voltaire or Rousseau were swamped by the traditional formality and tedium that made Madrid society a nightmare for intelligent ambassadors . |
| 46 | Giving her a long , slow appraisal that made her wriggle uncomfortably , he asked softly , ‘ Decided to rejoin the human race ? ’ |
| 47 | She shook her head and felt colour wash into her cheeks as his eyes drifted slowly over her face in a very thorough appraisal that made her feel both weak and excited . |
| 48 | It was a Frankie Howerd interview that made me realise I do not even want one . |
| 49 | Charles told her about his movements on the Sunday night , concluding , ‘ … so it must have been the arrival of Nigel 's car that made me run out of the place . ’ |
| 50 | In practice , the ambiguities of class blurred the theory ; rich Kenyans had privileges that made them virtually equal to the British , and a large number of the British — including the instruments of power , the soldiers — were not accepted as equals by the Establishment . |
| 51 | The salaries of staff , the replacement of vital instruments and many large items had to be funded from the National Health Service funds , so that there was never enough left to buy the extra comforts that made all the difference to the welfare of the patients . |
| 52 | Or was there something about the nature of French rule that made revolution inevitable ? |
| 53 | On their third night she ordered him quite roughly to bring his legs closer together and found a way of rubbing herself against his knee while sucking at his neck that made him shudder . |
| 54 | He rushed in , then , with many words , many more words about awfulness and pills , and if onlys and sadness ; words that were curses and words that made the issue opaque and words that sounded trivial because he was so angry . |
| 55 | With words that made them known ’ |
| 56 | After that she stood in a hazy dream , listening to the words that made them husband and wife . |
| 57 | ‘ And then they painted the walls of his office with a chemical that made him lose his mind , ’ she was saying to her brother Phil , who was sitting next to her . |
| 58 | As mountaineers , we would long remember the great companionship that made the expedition so successful ; the days spent on ice faces or silver crests ; the extensive views west along the Karakoram chain . |
| 59 | The boy shook one of the branches that made the framework of the hide . |
| 60 | Yet all that feeling , all that energy , discharged itself into the void so long as it did not flow down one of the channels that made the great wheels turn — in Edinburgh , in London and Paris . |