Example sentences of "made the [noun sg] [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the same time , rising rates of divorce and remarriage have made the division of assets within families more complex . |
| 2 | I always was , and have been ever , a devoted admirer of the fairer sex , but after you have made the acquaintance of men like Christopher Marlowe , you really ca n't trust anyone . |
| 3 | Furthermore , while ‘ logically ’ it might appear that at least from summer 1941 only Hitler could be blamed for the extension and prolongation of the war , a sufficient platform had been constructed by years of propaganda and ideological indoctrination to buttress the transfer of the blame to Germany 's external enemies — the Bolsheviks , the Jews , the British , the Americans — or to internal incompetence , naturally stopping short of the Führer , as when Field Marshal von Brauchitsch was made the scapegoat for mistakes in strategy and provisioning on the eastern Front in the winter of 1941–2 . |
| 4 | Her books , among them Wood and Garden ( 1899 ) , Home and Garden ( 1900 ) , and Colour in the Flower Garden ( 1908 ) , were widely read and followed in Britain and her ideas were taken up by Mrs Francis King , a founder of the Garden Club of America , who recognized her as having ‘ made the planting of gardens in the English-speaking countries one of the Fine Arts ’ . |
| 5 | The NRA noted ‘ a welcome trend towards the reporting of incidents on industrial sites … but several regions indicated that complex water surface drainage systems , and wrong connections of foul sewage and industrial waste outlets into the surface water drainage system , have made the investigation of incidents on industrial estates very difficult ’ . |