Example sentences of "[been] make [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three freemen : Three long-serving Middlesbrough councillors have been made freemen of the borough in a special ceremony at the town hall . |
| 2 | They felt they 'd been made fools of … and the ring is some sort of family heirloom and his father went on as if it was all Rick 's fault that Angy had made off with it . ’ |
| 3 | Tolerance and openness have been made excuses for much which is in fact lubricious ( and usually commercial ) exploitation of them . |
| 4 | Because we have been made children of God ; we carry the family likeness through the indwelling of the Holy Spirit ; we want to live so as to please our Heavenly Father ; and we enjoy his Fatherly protection and generous provision . |
| 5 | I 've been making notes on it , all evening . |
| 6 | I have been making notes on these for more than seventy years in the interest of my work as a cataloguer and expert at the Print Department . |
| 7 | Her personal milliner John Boyd , who has been making hats for the princess since she was 16 , said : ‘ She already has such a collection of hats that she does n't need anything new for this occasion . ’ |
| 8 | Burgon and Ball have been making shears in Sheffield for over 200 . |
| 9 | Fox set up New World Pictures to make British films , and Columbia Pictures engaged Irving Asher , who had been making quickies for Warners , to initiate a production programme that led to such interesting pictures as The Spy in Black ( 1938 , U-Boat 29 in US ) and Q Planes ( 1939 , Clouds Over Europe in US ) , both of which tapped into contemporary anxieties about the prospect of war . |
| 10 | GEC , which has been making fibres for Telecom for two and a half years , says it is aiming to get the cost down to £100 per kilometre by the end of the 1980s . |
| 11 | Unfortunately , Mr Bones takes his work home with him , and he 's been making members of the LUSH sick by bringing the skulls of baby birds to dinner . |
| 12 | Although I have n't been making records for the last six years , I have been working behind the scenes at Artists Against Apartheid , and me the Mandela concert last month , seeing that speech go out live on the BBC to all those people , was a culmination of all that work . |
| 13 | As for Houseparties — well , I 've been making friends with the villa girls who run them on islands throughout the Med ; I 've sailed the Turkish coast on a ‘ Gulet ’ , and gone island-hopping in Greece on the luxurious motor yacht ‘ SunSun ’ — they 're all really floating Houseparties . |
| 14 | ‘ One of our strengths is that we have been making catalysts for many years and only market those which we have used in our own plants , ’ explained Dr Barrie Pearce , commercial assistant for ICI Catalysts at Billingham , Cleveland . |
| 15 | I 've been making sketches for a painting I shall do when I 'm free . |
| 16 | JSL of Hereford has been making pistols since 1975 , mostly for export . |
| 17 | " Who else has been making bids for Mr Rayne ? " |
| 18 | Apart from the battle of Qadesiyah in AD 637 during the original advance of Islam , so frequently invoked by Iraq as a source of inspiration in the more recent conflict with Iran , Persians and the inhabitants of what is today Iraq have been making forays into one another 's territory for centuries . |
| 19 | ‘ Its concentration on domestic mortgages makes it more like a building society than a bank and , although it has been making losses with the rest of them , it has just managed to climb back into profitability . ’ |
| 20 | This entailed an eighty-mile drive in all , at a time when I should have been making sandwiches for the post-funeral bun-fight . |
| 21 | Obviously the police had been making enquiries about the Sally Nash case . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been making enquiries on your behalf and I 'm astounded — astounded ! ’ |
| 23 | Dr Jelley and Dr Himes have been making measurements of the beta decay of radioactive nickel ( nickel was used in the magnetic-spectrometer experiment most widely respected , one done at Canada 's Chalk River national laboratory ) . |
| 24 | Where Deray has been making films for 30 years , Pierre Jolivet 's Force Majeure ( complete with an eccentric appearance by a French-speaking Alan Bates ) represents only his third feature . |
| 25 | Rourke , who has been making films since Spielberg 's 1941 in 1979 , earned his reputation in 1987 after slamming the producers of A Prayer For the Dying for turning his part into ‘ an Irish Rambo ’ . |
| 26 | Where the task has been to make judgments of affective tone or extract central information from a slide , differences have emerged between central and peripheral details and this may well reflect the fact that attention to arousing information or central information ( which are assumed to be the same thing ) is explicitly required for task performance . |
| 27 | Her preferred method has been to make policies with small working parties , drawn from sympathetic ministers and members of her Policy Unit and ‘ think tanks ’ , as with the introduction of the poll tax , the health service review , and some of the education reforms . |