Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] made [pron] " in BNC.
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1 | The way he paused between words made her smile , it made his speech seem foreign , an inadequate translation of his thoughts . |
2 | The difficulties the administration encountered in enforcing the collection of taxes made it impossible for it to maintain a flow of funds to the king in Flanders , and Edward was now suffering the severest financial embarrassment . |
3 | The increasing impact of nuclear weapons upon military planning and the perceived importance of maintaining the integrity of a future theatre of operations made it necessary to standardise doctrine and training and , hence , provide a more integrated forum for addressing joint military requirements . |
4 | In view of the large number of requests made we are unable to advise you pre-departure if they can not be met . |
5 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |
6 | That is to say , Libyans whose families had settled in the cities some generations before were perhaps exempt from this process ; but the majority of Libyans made their history in the same way , and shared this picture of the past . |
7 | Holmes ' warm words of thanks made me feel much happier , and I saw that he was right . |
8 | The absence of vowels made it possible to confuse two words which are crucial to this problem : " eleph and " alluph . |
9 | Arnold was of Tom Arnold 's circus , and his post as the vice-chairman of the party in charge of candidates made him a target of all those who were eager to stand for Parliament . |
10 | After a fabulous day in a London hotel with the six finalists , our prestigious panel of judges made their final decision . |
11 | The sound of footsteps made her raise her head and pause in her rumination . |
12 | According to his findings , 53% of buyers made their purchases as a result of instore promotions . |
13 | Amid some of the tightest security seen in the province in recent years , hundreds of mourners made their way from his Tirkane Road home to St Patrick 's Church just over a mile away . |
14 | Teams of workers made their way through the streets ensuring that properties were safe to re-enter . |
15 | The closely-knit corps of torturers made it difficult for a torturer to give up his job . |
16 | Although the lack of signposts made it difficult to locate the road to Rennes-le-Chateau , I eventually found it and trudged the 4.7km to the village . |
17 | And an egg-stravaganza of eggs made their appearance at Grayswood School last week when the pupils put on their thinking caps to make some weird and wonderful creations . |
18 | The complexity , technology and chemical make-up of goods made it more difficult for people to understand what they were buying and to make a judgment at the time of purchase . |
19 | This disposition of rooms made it possible to treat the residual high-level space as a single living/dining/cooking area , with the kitchen located at its northern end , divided from the generous living-dining-room only by a head-height folding screen . |
20 | His distrust of the power of critics made him ready to jibe at David Sylvester . |
21 | The crucial column is the derived total of offers made which can be compared with the maximum number to be made as a measure of the field 's fullness . |
22 | However , postwar shortages of materials made it difficult to accelerate new building . |
23 | Indeed , the specificity of bacteriophages made them useful in identifying particular strains of bacteria , and the procedure called ‘ phage typing ’ was used for tracing the organism responsible for the spread of an infection in a community . |
24 | More majority voting in the Council of Ministers made it harder for members to block laws ; that strengthened the hand of the commission , which has the sole right to propose laws . |
25 | The President gave his blessing on 20 November , and the Council of Ministers made it official on 27 January , 1982 . |
26 | Between us and the lagoon a number of rivers made their way seaward . |
27 | To the employers , the entry of women made it possible at last to nibble away at — or do away with — such " restrictive practices " . |
28 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
29 | However the evidence suggests ( see pages 75–6 ) that it is more likely that this decision was reached at a later date , when the force of events made it seem imperative . |
30 | The enemy opened up with machine guns , but the glare of fires made it difficult for them to aim accurately . |