Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] make [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A grey coat and skirt were made trimmed with darker grey silk braid , and a pearl grey silk blouse with a tall frilled collar . |
| 2 | The general picture , then , is of project work being rather a vague area , with little attempt being made to capitalise on its potential as a teaching technique . |
| 3 | His Majesty being made acquainted with it by the Bishop of London , Order was given for calling the Printers into the High-Commission , where upon Evidence of the Fact , the whole Impression was called in , and the Printers deeply fined , as they justly merited . |
| 4 | Little attempt is made to treat like situations in a like manner or to act consistently within a framework of judicial analysis . |
| 5 | In Very small farms — a distinctive role ? some attempt is made to reply to that question . |
| 6 | Rather than try to disentangle the scores of relationships examined between animals and plants in this area by putting them into categories of predation or dispersal mechanism , an attempt is made to look at the relationships of particular taxonomic groups of animals and their food plants . |
| 7 | Against each group a preliminary choice of chemical is made based on chemical types that are also listed in chapter one . |
| 8 | The tea was made according to the instruction given by the Tea Council in London — brewing the tea bag for three minutes then squeezing it . |
| 9 | Radio cassettes worth £325 and £80 were taken from two cars in Benton Close , and an attempt was made to get into a third car in the street . |
| 10 | During the 1979 Parliament a very limited attempt was made to add to the flexibility of the committee stage . |
| 11 | Compare them with our comprehensive schools , where an official attempt was made to trample upon the diversity of the British people . |
| 12 | Next day , Dot was made to lie on a high hard bed in a glittery room without windows and they pressed a black rubber bowl over her face which smelled like the inside of her gas-mask . |
| 13 | Louis B. Wright 's Middle-Class Culture in Elizabethan England is welcomed by C. Bowie Millican on the grounds that it confirms a healthy trend in literary research whereby antiquarian , statistical , and editorial work are made to contribute to a broader and more comprehensive " cultural synthesis " : " it is the proper evaluation of such information … that leads to perspective and reveals literature to be both a continuum and a truthful mirror of life . |
| 14 | The electron is made to pass through a magnetic field which deflects it in different directions according to the different orientations of the spin . |
| 15 | The composition of this committee was made known in June . |
| 16 | The Securitate was also anxious to make sure that any suffering on the part of a non-conformist at home was made known to the dissident 's contacts in the West . |
| 17 | Richard Brilliant has suggested that the bust involves a high degree of representative abstraction since the only the head and shoulders and upper part of the body are made to stand for the whole . |
| 18 | He saw crystallisation as being a matter of agreement between the parties and on this reasoning there can be no objection to a charge being made to crystallise on the happening of a specified event . |
| 19 | The Ministry of Labour survey showed that no fewer than 37 per cent of the ‘ administrative , clerical and sales ’ group were made to retire by 55 and a similar proportion by the age of 60 , whereas 65 was the ‘ normal ’ retirement age for men ( Ministry of Labour Gazette , 1938 ) . |
| 20 | New recruits of one futures selling bucket shop were made to listen to a tape recording of a " model " sales presentation . |
| 21 | Consciousness , in Humphrey 's scheme , arises when sensation is made to reverberate within the nervous system , connecting the present to the immediate past : ‘ the conscious present is largely the immediate sensory afterglow of stimuli that have just passed by ’ . |
| 22 | If the rent under the sublease is made to increase at the same rate as the rent under the headlease , and the rent under the headlease is less than a market rent at the date of grant of the sublease , the rent under the sublease may well exceed the true market rent after the first rent review . |
| 23 | Automatic crystallisation is not a term of art but covers at least two situations which at first blush appear dissimilar ; one is where the charge is made to crystallise on the happening of an event provided for in the charge without there being any need for a further act by the chargee and the other is where the charge is made to crystallise on the serving of a notice of crystallisation on the company . |
| 24 | Automatic crystallisation is not a term of art but covers at least two situations which at first blush appear dissimilar ; one is where the charge is made to crystallise on the happening of an event provided for in the charge without there being any need for a further act by the chargee and the other is where the charge is made to crystallise on the serving of a notice of crystallisation on the company . |
| 25 | Crimes of Hudud are crimes that are denounced by God ; the punishment is made known in the Koran . |
| 26 | Eat natural foods : The human body was made to cope with a diet of nuts , cereals , meat and raw vegetables , not a mixture of cakes , pastries and potato crisps . |
| 27 | These get their name from the fact that solder is made to flow along the tiny gap between the copper fitting and the pipe by capillary action . |
| 28 | The true identity of the corpse was made known in 1838 by William Sweeting , Sheldon 's nephew : the body was none other than Sarah Stone , a medical artist who had worked for both Sheldon and Hunter 's assistant , Cruikshank . |
| 29 | The histologic diagnosis of chronic hepatitis was made according to the standard criteria . |
| 30 | Writing on this method of enquiry , John Madge said that ‘ when the heart of the observer is made to beat as the heart of any other member of the group under observation , rather than as that of a detached emissary from some distant laboratory , then he has earned the title of participant observer . ’ |