Example sentences of "of [noun sg] [noun] made [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The high cost of rail transport made it difficult to sell fresh fish to the main English market . |
| 2 | The clothes of skinhead girls made them look superficially like the boys . |
| 3 | The famous ‘ twinkle ’ in his eye and the firm yet non-interventionist finger he kept on the pulse of hall life made him a fair but firm warden at all times . |
| 4 | By the 1930s , when the problems of dialogue recording made it easier to bring the world into the studio rather than taking the camera to the world ( whereas in the pre-sound 1920s it was fine control of lighting that favoured studio shooting ) , moving images — then and now called ‘ plates ’ — could be projected behind the action and foreground props or sets , provided the camera and projector were ( as in the step-printer already discussed ) exactly synchronized . |
| 5 | Lack of funds through University cut-backs along with his own lack of paper qualifications made it impossible for the Universities to continue employing him . |
| 6 | While the pervasiveness and uniformity of television news made it unlikely that it would influence different people in different ways , the press seemed likely to influence different readers in very different ways . |
| 7 | There were several reasons : most immediate , perhaps , was the need for uninterrupted production as war orders from Europe mounted ; secondly , the large size of the corporations and the new degree of union strength made it difficult to recruit the many thousands of strikebreakers for full-scale industrial warfare ; third , government pressures put the corporations on the defensive ; and finally , the entry of the United States into the war created a need for national unity . |
| 8 | Just as the introduction of word processing made it easier for people to produce and maintain large documents , so desktop publishing makes it easier for those same people to produce professional looking publications . |
| 9 | Just as the introduction of word processing made it easier for people to produce and maintain large documents so desktop publishing makes it easier for those same people to produce professional looking publications . |
| 10 | He had told them a year ago that one of the main reasons he was interested in the paper was his conviction that the ‘ new realism ’ of print unions made it financially possible to seize the ‘ window of opportunity ’ . |
| 11 | Department of Justice officials made it clear that they still see the pursuit of Gen Noriega as a criminal case . |