Example sentences of "[noun sg] of [noun pl] made [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | To the employers , the entry of women made it possible at last to nibble away at — or do away with — such " restrictive practices " . |
| 3 | Children who were presented with a nonsense syllable alongside more and less in a variety of contexts made it contrast with more and less by adding or subtracting much smaller amounts ; by adding or subtracting everything ; by introducing some quite different manipulation ( stirring , flicking , rolling , tossing up and down , mixing both piles together ) , and so on . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The President gave his blessing on 20 November , and the Council of Ministers made it official on 27 January , 1982 . |
| 7 | The sound of footsteps made her raise her head and pause in her rumination . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The absence of vowels made it possible to confuse two words which are crucial to this problem : " eleph and " alluph . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In Capital , Volume 3 Marx noted this trend when he argued that the increasing size of enterprises made it impossible for them to be run by a single person . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In view of the large number of requests made we are unable to advise you pre-departure if they can not be met . |
| 17 | The enemy opened up with machine guns , but the glare of fires made it difficult for them to aim accurately . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | His distrust of the power of critics made him ready to jibe at David Sylvester . |
| 20 | The coronet is shown in loving detail as it embodies the moment when this family of merchants made it to the princely ranks . |