Example sentences of "[pron] [noun] be made [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The repeal of the sedition statute failed to avert a march by 10,000 students through Taipei on March 20 , during which calls were made for the resignation of the Prime Minister , Gen. Hau Pei-tsun . |
| 2 | His original mind and interests in music , linguistics and the human voice led him to study the problems of deaf education and to invent " The New Sign Language , " in which every sign was a pantomimic version of the spoken word and in which signs were made in the same order and in the same sequel as the words of normal speech . |
| 3 | In that case a claim to purchase tax in respect of one of their products was made against the plaintiffs . |
| 4 | the basis on which provision is made for the redemption of debt ; |
| 5 | The committee applied to strike out his claim as an abuse of the process of the court on the ground that their decision was made in the exercise of a public law duty , and could only be challenged by way of judicial review . |
| 6 | Genes are made of the nucleic acid DNA , and they exert their effect by determining which proteins are made in the cell . |
| 7 | He made his call at a meeting of high-level civil servants , police and military officers on Nov. 2 , three days before a House of Representatives debate on prostitution at which demands were made for the closure of all brothels nationwide . |
| 8 | This would lead to the conclusion that the relevant ‘ discourse subjects ’ for a particular discourse fragment must be those to which reference is made in the text of the discourse . |
| 9 | The serjeants at law , who had the exclusive privilege of practising , pleading and audience in the Court of Common Pleas from time immemorial until their exclusive privileges were abolished by the Practitioners in Common Pleas Act 1846 ( 9 & 10 Vict. c. 54 ) , had always fallen into a special category and before the events of 1292 to which reference is made in the 1970 judgment , Parliament had introduced an elementary form of disciplinary control over serjeants and pleaders in the Statute of Westminster 1275 ( 3 Edw. 1 c. 29 ) which provided , in the event of attainder for deceit or collusion in the King 's Court , for a term of imprisonment and for disqualification for life from ‘ pleading in that court for any man . ’ |
| 10 | However , an index is essential for any volume containing many items to which reference is made by the reader . |
| 11 | Moving to the dais , the Lord Lieutenant then heard a speech of welcome by Mr D G Titcombe , in which reference was made to the development of autocatalysts since 1970 , including the Queen 's Award for Technological Achievement made to the Johnson Matthey Technology Centre in 1977 . |
| 12 | Lastly , the Spanish Government argued that the possibility afforded by the Act of 1988 of exempting certain persons from the nationality condition to which reference was made in the last part of the national court 's question ( 2 ) in no way altered the foregoing considerations . |
| 13 | It is well known that the UKCC has to this date been a bastion of conservatism , its appointments being made through the patronage of the secretary of state or the national boards . |
| 14 | Their view is that if the office furniture division were sold for £23m ( the amount of capital employed in the business ) , the group 's borrowings of £49m and gearing of 57% would be nearly halved ; that Athena 's high operational gearing offers scope for cost cutting ; that an expected upturn in the UK small business sector would benefit Ryman ; and that Dillons , the group 's core business , has performed relatively well , considering that around one-third of its sales are made in the difficult terrain of central London . |
| 15 | According to the company , the market is expanding fast : three-quarters of its sales were made in the past 18 months . |
| 16 | The spacious porch leads into an elegant hall , from which access is made to the lounge , bar and dining room . |
| 17 | ( a ) a bankruptcy order or its equivalent is made against the RFL whether in this or another jurisdiction ; or |
| 18 | There is no real reason to believe that the civil-military mission which the US sent to Vietnam would , in any event , have come to substantially different conclusions but the fact remains that their report was made under the impact of the Korean War and as one of its leaders said of the other his thoughts seemed largely to be with ‘ his ’ division in Korea . |
| 19 | Finally , the Appendix contains a short bibliography that includes mostly those works to which references are made in the text . |
| 20 | Its recommendations were made in the document Improving Secondary Schools ( ILEA , 1984 ) . |
| 21 | Their bristles were made from the finest hair available , taken from inside the ear of a goat . |
| 22 | He is the custodian of the shrines at which offerings are made to the ancestors of the group which he leads . |
| 23 | Furthermore , we want to ensure that those whose appointments are made by the Secretary of State have the appropriate qualifications and experience to fulfil their functions . |
| 24 | Despite offering similar hereditary rights to the nobles themselves , Henry was not successful in implementing this plan , but he died before any firm rejection of his proposals was made by the German princes . |
| 25 | One of the great distinctions in his mythology is made between the Elves , who are ‘ animist ’ and ‘ pagan ’ , and the Men , who are destined to move beyond this . |
| 26 | His call was made in the wake of a six month sentence imposed by a judge at Castleblayney on Gerard Smyth , 22 , of Darkley , Co Armagh . |
| 27 | Does my right hon. Friend accept that , whatever changes are made to the sitting hours , it would be a retrograde step — a step detrimental to the rights of Back Benchers — to introduce legislation to reduce them ? |
| 28 | What assumptions are made about the audience 's understanding of educational shorthand/jargon and their grasp of basic skills ? |
| 29 | Stylistics , as Leech and Short point out ( 1981 , p. 13 ) , can be simply defined as the study of a style which is an exercise in describing what use is made of the language . |
| 30 | ( b ) Stylistics , as Leech and Short point out ( 1981 , p.13 ) , can be simply defined as the study of a style which is an exercise in describing what use is made of the language . |