Example sentences of "make of the [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Using the work of social anthropologists and social psychologists to get closer to an understanding of the unique parts of Japanese culture , great play has been made of the primacy of group over individual interests .
32 To test this hypothesis a number of stream patterns are generated using the program described above and a count made of the number of streams with no tributaries ( these are called first-order streams ) , then the number of streams formed by the junction of two first-order streams ( these are second-order streams ) and so on .
33 No estimates could be made of the number of systems or the number of applications involving personal data — guesses ranged from 50,000 to 350,000 .
34 Orthographic content is estimated by a tedious but accurate procedure by which a count is made of the number of times each letter appears in each position in a word of specific length .
35 As assessments are made of the impact of tax changes on project economics , other oil companies are expected to join Amerada 's call for Government consultation with the industry on methods of increasing taxation without affecting incentive for re-investment in the UK .
36 In this paper particular mention has been made of the application of Cognitive–Behaviour Therapy to depression .
37 Together with radiometric age determinations of the most recent eruptive episode , such reconstructions enable estimates to be made of the amount of material eroded over a known period of time .
38 Cheshire 's assistant chief constable , Brian Baister , said in response to last night 's IRA statement : ‘ A warning was given half-an-hour before , but no mention was made of the town of Warrington .
39 During both World Wars less was made of the effect of women 's work on childbearing and childrearing .
40 First , if restriction on liberty is the defining feature of punishment , what are we to make of the experience of children who have to go to school and adults who have to work for a living ?
41 US investors , it says , do n't quite know what to make of the outbreak of peace .
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