Example sentences of "[vb infin] [be] make [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Hang on John , all this will do is make at least a quarter of our own members , in this union , to be inactive in their own industries .
2 The plea to spread a message that the bombers will not succeed was made by the chairman of the Down Economic Development Agency , Councillor Malachi Curran at a dinner in Newcastle last night .
3 On no account should direct contact be made with the management or staff of the Company .
4 Could better use be made of health board professionals for meeting school staff development needs ?
5 Erm what place erm does the convenor see being made in the legal processes to make available to estranged couples the opportunity for erm voluntary conciliation between the parties ?
6 MS 9 What alterations , if any , would you suggest be made to existing arrangements ( in association with existing other distribution officer ) ?
7 Here and there minor changes in field boundaries may have been made during the past 150 or 200 years , but on the whole the enclosure map lays down the present-day pattern exactly .
8 If you 've had office copy entries , the date from which to search is that given at the foot of each page , when the office copy entries were issued ; your search will then reveal any entries that may have been made since that date .
9 Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe .
10 Normally , any limiting adjustment which may have been made to the amount of positive pitch available will be overridden by this control .
11 Finally , the question arises whether this application should have been made to the Court of Appeal .
12 He said arrangements should have been made to actually take him to a medical officer and said he should not have been allowed to leave Comber and Newtownabbey RUC stations when he called that day .
13 Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch .
14 They were so still that they might have been made of granite .
15 Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ .
16 Many tools may have been made of organic materials but some , for instance wood-working tools , were of metal .
17 This was well symbolized by the enthronement of the gospel book at the Council , though more could have been made of it ( de Maio , 1963 , p. 21 ; Bianchi , 1987 , p. 117 ) .
18 Incumbent members of Congress have always been difficult to defeat and too much may have been made of the advantages of incumbency in the modern legislature .
19 I would have preferred black pipework to white , for its unobtrusiveness but , more to the point , the hopper itself could have been made of a darker and heavier-gauge material .
20 He could tell nothing from their faces ; they could have been made of stone .
21 I was out of my element , and the air itself could have been made of gold for all the use it was to me .
22 Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice .
23 Still it suggests that some profit might even have been made of the Tilberthwaite work .
24 They might have been made of stone .
25 ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces .
26 The same observation could have been made of the refusal to give Rangers a penalty immediately before the Belgians scored .
27 Mr Richard Aiken , counsel for BBC Enterprises , had told the court that a decision on whether to continue the BBC Europe service should have been made at the end of November but had been deferred until a meeting of the directors on December 29 .
28 Decorated metalwork and pottery can , in addition , be studied by the measurement of elements in designs to determine which objects may have been made at the same source , using the same tools , or even by the same craftsman .
29 Black Fury could only have been made at Warner Bros , a studio which had firmly aligned with Roosevelt and the New Deal and which quite clearly believed that there was a market for films which dealt with topical issues and in particular with matters of social justice .
30 For exemption to apply , the gift must have been made at least seven years before the donor 's death and moreover , it must have been unconditionally given ; or to use the jargon , ‘ without reservation ’ .
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