Example sentences of "[was/were] make [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shifts could be made from one monoculture to another in response to market conditions and were made both in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ; but they were made without any fundamental change in the traditional crop economy or any mitigation of the problems of rural under-employment . |
| 2 | Some of the more interesting comedy films were made outside these generic contexts . |
| 3 | Chafe ( 1977:244 ) criticises the typical psycholinguistic tree structures which assign agents and roles to the words used in the recall as being ‘ able to capture only certain decisions that were made during certain particular verbalisations . |
| 4 | Measurements were made on five separate days : ( a ) without treatment , ( b ) 45 minutes after 100µ g octreotide given subcutaneously , ( c ) four hours after 100 µg octreotide given subcutaneously , ( d ) eight hours after 100 µg octreotide given subcutaneously , and ( e ) during CSOI of 300µ g/24 h for two weeks . |
| 5 | He stated that at the time he left , 1859/60 , the holdings were made into one large holding . |
| 6 | Without being told , he knew that as fast as the payments were made into five Swiss bank accounts , the money was transferred into five different accounts — the numbers of which were known only to Adam . |
| 7 | The boat 's wrap-around windscreens were made of black polarised glass which only added to Dream Baby 's ugly air of menace . |
| 8 | His breeches were made of white shiny silk and so was his waistcoat . |
| 9 | The last time I saw her she looked yellow and thin — as if she were made of some dry , friable material and would crumple into sand if you touched her . |
| 10 | He stroked her face , and then ran his fingers through her hair , looking at it as if it were made of some delicate , finely spun silk . |
| 11 | The shoes were made of shiny black leather with ankle straps and tiny heels . |
| 12 | The boxes were made of heavy green-painted panels of metal slotted and bolted together ; dismantleable . |
| 13 | In a new Cabinet list published on Aug. 29 , appointments were made to six vacant ministries , four ministers were re-shuffled and a Ministry of Natural Resources , Development and Environmental Protection was established under Mesfin Abebe . |
| 14 | Rather later , some concessions were made to local architectural styles . |
| 15 | Undisclosed charges were made against five other imprisoned FIS leaders . |
| 16 | All were in perfect condition , and the inscriptions seemed rather unusual : analysis failed to detect any gold at all , strongly suggesting the ingots were made from modern refined silver . |
| 17 | The early poles were made from two seasoned larch trees — spliced and joined by metal hoops — from Parlington Park , the estate of the Gascoigne family , lords of the manor . |
| 18 | Several of his Rembrandt drawings were said to have a provenance from the Six collection in Amsterdam , and other purchases were made from distinguished contemporary sales such as those of the Earl of Arundel , Sir Peter Lely [ q.v . ] , |
| 19 | Measurements were made by negative thermal ionization mass spectrometry on a 15-inch-radius mass spectrometer at the Department of Terrestrial Magnetism , Carnegie Institution . |
| 20 | She said that large cuts were made in regional selective assistance in the early 1980s . |
| 21 | Although there were stores all over the world , manufacturing and distribution were highly centralized ; most of the products were made in one giant plant . |
| 22 | Four additional openings were made in this external wall and three existing openings were modified in order to admit adequate light to the altered interior . |
| 23 | It was made of expensive brown leather , but it was n't fat , it was thin . |
| 24 | It was made of twisted black metal , ornamented with Eastern demons and orgies . |
| 25 | The room was made of unpainted white stones . |
| 26 | So they greeted her with comforts and praise , and said they liked the colour , and Janice lent her a necklace ; Clara did not much like the necklace either , for it was made of large artificial pearls , and she secretly suspected the donor of malicious intent in offering such a loan , but she put it on just the same , and ignored her suspicions , and allowed herself to be comforted , because she wished to be comforted , and because it was too late to get out of going . |
| 27 | This survey follows a pilot study of the West Midlands in the Anglo-Saxon period in which particular use was made of Old English charter material . |
| 28 | The hull was made of overlapping wrought-iron plates riveted to metal frames . |
| 29 | The astonishing garment was made of some smooth material in a mixture of very dark greens and blues which flattered her blonde hair and made her slate-coloured eyes even more ravishing than usual . |
| 30 | Greater use was made of quiet suburban stations or of quieter platforms on the main stations ; trains left at night and the number of family wellwishers come to say goodbye was restricted to one parent for each child . |