Example sentences of "made a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not to have made a Will can only add to that stress . |
| 2 | Venturi was a university teacher , son of a famous father , Adolpho Venturi , who had made a substantial contribution to the publication of documents of Italian art . |
| 3 | John Canaday , the incoming editor of the newspaper 's art page and responsible for the dismissal , had made a challenge to a climate of opinion in which Dore Ashton 's criticism was valued for its sensitivity , and where the art which she praised was accepted . |
| 4 | A journalist politician , Meredith Herbert , is made a minister — perhaps in order that he should be damaged by having to deal with the people on the streets ; he is , perhaps , physically beaten up . |
| 5 | The Shah had made a showplace of his country with his colossal purchasing of weapons , and look what it had all come to : ‘ If you drive from Shiraz to Isfahan even today you 'll see hundreds of helicopters parked off to the right of the highway . |
| 6 | At the end of the book , though , Zuckerman confronts Roth with the opinion that the latter has made a mistake in trying to tame or to shed his imagination in the foregoing text , that fiction is superior to fact , and that the factuality of The Facts is specious . |
| 7 | By now you will have made a definite decision to become an actor — no matter what the problems or obstacles . |
| 8 | We did Decadence in London and America together — and we 've made a film for Channel 4 television . |
| 9 | It was made a compulsory subject in the schools , an essential part of the Leaving Certificate , and it was necessary to pass an exam in the language to enter the civil service . |
| 10 | My last chance and I 've made a mess of it . |
| 11 | She has made a crucial contribution to the race and representation debate in the U.S. Through works of self-investigation and transformation Piper explores her own racial identity and forces viewers to question their own values and beliefs . |
| 12 | As I had never actually made a cold application for a job before , I did n't really know what to make of this . |
| 13 | She may have made a mess of her life ; she may have faced problems beyond your comprehension . |
| 14 | Returning from a break in Wales , we found annual nettles , chickweed and seedling thistles had made a major takeover bid for the plot ; a bit of a blow , but not entirely unexpected . |
| 15 | Where there is a slight risk in the event of a swing , a pilot may be said to have made a simple error of judgement or taken an unnecessary risk . |
| 16 | Usually they really believe this and do not accept that they have made a mistake . |
| 17 | Thus the advance is made a split second after discerning the opponent 's attack . |
| 18 | A great anger had heated up , one of Robertson 's new windows had been shattered by a stone , and the womenfolk had made a move to drag the teacher out and throw him in the river . |
| 19 | ‘ Oh , he knuckled under , but the young man made a great show of being a soldier and the McLaggans went to cool him down . ’ |
| 20 | Had I known that the previous year , I could have made a good case to contest the abolition of my old job . |
| 21 | An infant at eight months who retrieves a completely-occluded object has made a major advance in understanding the appearance-reality distinction , at least on the plane of action , because he now knows that , although the perceptual input at one time tells him that there is no rattle in his reachable space , really there is . |
| 22 | Now she thinks , not his cock but his tongue , I should have cut his tongue out with them , his slow quicksilver tongue ; for he partly took me backwards out of my joy , into an old timidity that 's there still ; and it 's made a meal of me sometimes teaching , when the sharper ones have had me squirming for my lazy luck . |
| 23 | After all , in Paris and Rome , Copenhagen and Amsterdam , I had frequently made a complete mess of whole sentences , much less place names , and had generally been set in the right direction , after a little bit of repetition and a lot of hand waving . |
| 24 | The 1900 U.21 Champion , Arantxa Sanchez certainly made a successful switch this year by reaching the final of the Ladies singles ! |
| 25 | I then wonder why some enterprising manufacturer has n't made a cheap engineer 's lathe as an alternative to the old-fashioned wood lathe . |
| 26 | Has anyone made a user/friendly racket ? |
| 27 | Adrian Jones , who studied for a number of years at Parnham House , has made a similar cabinet , and in the September issue he displays that piece and talks bout his work as a successful furniture-maker . |
| 28 | Age Concern England has urged the Government to monitor more closely the provision by health authorities of continuing care , and has made a number of recommendations about how this might be done . |
| 29 | A National Consumer Council report suggests that only 31% of council and housing associations tenants were satisfied with the way in which their complaints were handled , and that one in six tenants dissatisfied with the service provided by their landlord had not made a complaint at all . |
| 30 | Probably because it started the 1980s with a fleet of new 125mph HSTs which had made a major impact on its market , the East Coast main line was far better placed to withstand the rigours of the recession than its West Coast neighbour . |