Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] made [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , Roberts herself makes the point that , for example , Anderson 's reliance upon census data made it difficult for him to see the extent of exchanges across households . |
| 2 | The straight forward design and short wheel base made it ideal for negotiating the sharp curves of the Welshpool line . |
| 3 | The close connection between politics and revenue patronage made it difficult for superiors to discipline officers who stepped out of line , and even when an officer was actually dismissed he could , and did , fight to secure his reinstatement by pulling political strings . |
| 4 | Car headlights made it difficult to see , in the way that an usherette 's torch can temporarily blind . |
| 5 | Here , on demanding mountain roads , the yawning gaps between gear ratios made it difficult to keep the engine spinning above the ideal 4000rpm . |
| 6 | John Steele brought Midlands back to life with a splendid 36th-minute drop goal and just before half-time Liley made it 9–10 . |
| 7 | Administration sources made it clear yesterday that Mr Clinton was ready to go to Moscow for the 3-4 April meeting , whose present venue is Vancouver . |
| 8 | READING about how Princess Anne bossed her new husband around on their wedding day made me wonder whether it is time the rules of royal succession were changed . |
| 9 | These divisions within the labour movement made it a less influential force on the side of social reform than is often thought . |
| 10 | The Lindop report made it fairly clear that safeguards with regard to access and illegal use are needed . |
| 11 | Ever since the days it had been called Kingstown , it had been a lovely place to live ; tropical palm trees along the coast line made it seem like somewhere much more exotic than it really was . |
| 12 | The announcement a week ago that the company was seeking new equity financing made it pretty clear that the end was nigh for Littleton , Massachusetts-based massively parallel systems builder Alliant Computer Systems Corp , and the company announced last week that the boom has fallen when it fired all but 50 of its 225 employees and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection . |
| 13 | led wo late Tranmere strikes made it safe for the Merseysiders as they consolidated their second place in the Division One table . |
| 14 | In the same way , the frequent coinage reforms of the late Roman empire or late Anglo-Saxon England made it unlikely that the previous issues survived for very long after the date of the reform . |
| 15 | Scotland opened promisingly but Benoit Bellot 's downwind , downfield punting made it difficult for the home side to sustain pressure . |
| 16 | This clash between school values and home values made it very difficult for some schools to tackle problems of pupil absence . |
| 17 | Their cool , disdainful attitude to strangers and their style and exuberance in the dance hall made them respected and admired by their white contemporaries . |
| 18 | Some parents found social work visits made them fearful and anxious and their self-esteem was reduced . |
| 19 | In striking down the law Duplantier made it clear that he hoped that his decision would provide the opportunity for the Supreme Court to overturn the landmark 1973 judgement Roe v. Wade which provided the foundation of legal abortion in the US . |
| 20 | Delivering the keynote address at the Windows World annex to Comdex yesterday , Bill Gates announced that NT source code will be given to some US research institutions , including the Massachusetts Institute of Technology , the University of Washington , Stanford University , Browns University and Xerox Palo Alto Research Center and they will be free to make their own enhancements to the Microsoft Corp operating system : Unix System Laboratories Inc has been less encouraging of the university fraternity in recent years , and the move is intended to unsettle the Unix community ; Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 21 | Gates also claimed NT 's Posix interface made it as easy ‘ to move applications here as to any of the versions of Unix out there . ’ |
| 22 | When his home town made him an ‘ honoured citizen ’ some years ago , he reminded friends that ‘ they used to fling me in jail ’ . |
| 23 | The clothes of skinhead girls made them look superficially like the boys . |
| 24 | The famous ‘ twinkle ’ in his eye and the firm yet non-interventionist finger he kept on the pulse of hall life made him a fair but firm warden at all times . |
| 25 | This telephone call made me think back over the years . |
| 26 | By the 1930s , when the problems of dialogue recording made it easier to bring the world into the studio rather than taking the camera to the world ( whereas in the pre-sound 1920s it was fine control of lighting that favoured studio shooting ) , moving images — then and now called ‘ plates ’ — could be projected behind the action and foreground props or sets , provided the camera and projector were ( as in the step-printer already discussed ) exactly synchronized . |
| 27 | However , an influential group of central committee members made it clear they felt that Mrs Mandela 's behaviour was damaging the image of the organisation and the reputation of her husband , who appears to view her as ‘ a wayward child ’ . |
| 28 | By his athletic skill William became rich and acquired land , an heiress , an earldom ; and in the end wisdom in the council chamber made him regent of England . |
| 29 | I had tried this myself and knew it was not nearly as simple as the village boys made it seem . |
| 30 | The Traction Avant — driven famously by Maigret — was n't the first front-wheel-drive car , but its demountable engine/drive system made it workable , sort of . |