Example sentences of "made [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Well , ’ Fritz went red , which , Erika thought , made rather a nice change from her own blushing , and looked at his shoes . |
| 2 | One could detect a purr of satisfaction when John Major replied that actually some other European countries made rather a mess of things : that Belgium had taken 100 days to form a government ; that the Italian political system was a disaster and the French one not much better ; and that , if they had any sense , they would copy the way we do things . |
| 3 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 4 | Aunt Janice was clothed ( shirt and jeans ) , which made rather a refreshing change , and standing in the hallway . |
| 5 | Thus a buyer 's legal position is better if he made no examination than if he made merely a superficial one . |
| 6 | Scratches made only a few minutes before . |
| 7 | His voice on that last telephone call came back to her , made only a few days before he disappeared . |
| 8 | Swedish international Anders Limpar made only a brief substitute 's appearance in that victory at Selhurst Park , but his popularity was underlined by the reception he was given by Arsenal fans at Selhurst Park . |
| 9 | Therefore — rightly claiming that his force was as yet incomplete and most of his field guns not brought up — he made only a token attack on the Russian left , while positioning his troops as they detrained and making his own tactical preparations . |
| 10 | It proved very successful in terms of the increase in exports [ Worswick and Ady , 1952 ] , though new research is beginning to suggest that official efforts ( largely through the agency of the Board of Trade ) made only a marginal contribution as compared with general forces leading to an expansion of international trade . |
| 11 | By and large , the cached IDE host adaptor made only a marginal difference to my benchmarks . |
| 12 | In lieu of speech she made only a strange croaking sound . |
| 13 | They were used mainly to provide public works and made only a marginal impact upon the distressed : the Poplar workhouse was severely overcrowded in both winters . |
| 14 | He made only a brief speech to the meeting , described by Bridgeman to Davidson ( who was in the Argentine ) as ‘ a good opening — plain and dignified — and with fewer mannerisms than have recently been apparent , and no apparent nervousness ’ . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the party made only a limited concession ; Home Rule 's suspension was real , and every attempt to implement it in wartime provoked sufficient Unionist outrage to stop it . |
| 16 | In 1961 , the President made only a few shadowy and conventional gestures to the black community . |
| 17 | They made only a short distance in the remainder of that day , for Miss Fergusson demanded frequent rests . |
| 18 | The eventual UN resolution passed on Oct. 29 , however , made only a veiled reference to the war crimes issue , in calling for information on breaches of international law . |
| 19 | Although the G-7 final communiqué made only a passing reference to " developments in the Soviet Union " , it was understood that a decision to shelve the issue of Soviet participation in the IMF and World Bank [ see p. 37730 ] had been prompted by widespread condemnation of recent Soviet attacks on nationalists in Latvia and Lithuania [ see pp. 37944-45 ] . |
| 20 | That may be so , but the prince was ousted from power by the Lon Nol coup back in 1970 , and made only a brief comeback as a Khmer Rouge figurehead in 1976 . |
| 21 | Remembering the other woman 's private income , Loretta made only a faint protest . |
| 22 | Until late in the eighteenth century Methodism made only a limited advance . |
| 23 | So do we understand from that that in the event it made only a few seconds difference , if at all ? |
| 24 | One outgoing player is striker Derek Parker , who made only a couple of appearances after coming from Hyde United . |
| 25 | From where she stood , the business of the Fish , the activity around the field , the movement of the crowd at the country meeting — dressed in a range from the metropolitan fashionable to a package of rags — made scarcely a blemish on the landscape . |
| 26 | ‘ But to suggest that coincidentally this recording , made just a fortnight earlier , was also picked up in the same way does stretch one 's credibility . ’ |
| 27 | Twenty eight years of age , Tommy , made just a handful of appearances for Sunderland before coming here to Shrewsbury Town and he 's made important contributions at both ends tonight , because his could be the goal that takes Shrewsbury past Blackburn and to a lucrative tie against Tottenham . |
| 28 | Chairman Peter Swales insists there is no more money for signings — but City made nearly a million in the last financial year and gambling now could mean the difference between success and failure . |
| 29 | During his reign Edward made nearly a thousand presentations to church livings , as many as sixty-nine in one year alone in 1304–5 . |
| 30 | The argument was fuelled exactly a year ago when the League Against Cruel Sports made public a video showing Prince Charles 's favourite hunt , The Quorn , breaking the sport 's strict code of conduct by digging out a fox and throwing it to the hounds . |