Example sentences of "made [prep] a [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In spite of six weeks of unceasing rain Wade was , by October 1732 , able to write , ‘ I still hope in a fortnight to pass the Coriarick Mountain in my coach ’ , and sure enough by the end of October the road was finished , ‘ made through a part of the country , ’ as he justly claimed in his report to the Treasury , ‘ that was scarcely passable for man or horse … now made as easy and practicable for wheel carriages as any road in the country ’ . |
| 2 | In Japanese industry , decisions are made through a process of information combination . |
| 3 | Search can be made through a number of different files at the same time . |
| 4 | Provision was made for a crew of five ; pilot and co-pilot side-by-side in an open cockpit , a flight engineer , wireless-operator and gunner . |
| 5 | 5.9 provides for application being made for a certificate of completion , which application is to be granted if the works as completed comply with the warrant under which they were executed . |
| 6 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 7 | Provision is made for a range of access rights , entry ownership , organisation and work management . |
| 8 | He had added that his new possession would need ‘ a bit of doing up ’ , but other engineers working at Nigel 's firm seemed almost as fascinated as he himself , and once it arrived on the premises Nigel remarked jokingly , ‘ Not too many lighthouses were made for a couple of years . ’ |
| 9 | On March 19 Bolivia announced the appointment of a consul but no decision was made for a resumption of diplomatic relations [ for Bolivian sea outlet issue see p. 37488 ] . |
| 10 | To multiply human cells in tissue culture on the scale necessary presented considerable difficulties , but enough material has been made for a variety of clinical trials against many different viral diseases and certain cancers . |
| 11 | Although ‘ mixed ’ marriages between people of different races or cultures are made for a variety of reasons , conscious and unconscious , some are necessitated by the need to have constant reassurance of difference : for example , a skin of another colour . |
| 12 | Demands have been made for a withdrawal of the invitation to controversial historian , David Irving , to address student societies in Dublin University , University College Dublin and University College Cork . |
| 13 | The greatest surprise , however , was lot 187 , the 3½ foot , 784-ounce Tiffany presentation piece , made for a builder of a South American railroad , and modelled in the round , with figures of peons and an allegory of America , parcel-gilt in three different colours of gold . |
| 14 | Economic decline is tangled up with political turmoil in a way that has made for a crisis of the constitution . |
| 15 | At the 36 hour point the suspect must be charged , released or an application made for a warrant of further detention . |
| 16 | The cell , although uncomfortable and oppressive , made for a haven of quiet and stillness within which Bernice had been able to calm and draw out the traumatized girl . |
| 17 | Angry telephone calls followed and a strong case made for a review of Japanese regulations . |
| 18 | Many kind Friends interest themselves in George Green 's behalf , and I find that by this day 's post an application has been made for a specimen of his hand-writing etc. and a hope held out of a situation ( in a Counting house , I believe ) , but if you were willing to take him , and if it could be arranged in other points , he would greatly prefer being in your establishment to any thing else . |
| 19 | A plans were being made for a meeting of Allied socialists in February to endorse Labour 's War Aims . |
| 20 | Such claims have been made for a succession of international exhibitions since the first , the Great Exhibition , opened in Hyde Park in 1851 . |
| 21 | For example , forecasts may be made for a group of schools and then the results of different patterns of parental choice can be simulated . |
| 22 | A series of many similar observations can be made for a number of different tribes and issues , and cumulatively these give us a very clear picture of the extensive series of Celtic silver coinages of the first century BC . |
| 23 | A search is made for a number of special tag patterns and parse fragments and the parse structure suitably modified . |
| 24 | The camera can be preset or remotely controlled to cover the subject or area to be photographed , and provision made for a sequence of pictures or a single exposure , according to the camera type and its shutter release . |
| 25 | In his will , made as a parishioner of St Olave Jewry , London , dated 7 January , and proved 28 February 1633 , he made monetary bequests to his four daughters and two sons , allowed the use of his professional papers to his apprentices , and gave a two-volume book of statutes to ‘ my noble friend Sir William Paddy [ q.v. ] … to be by him put and given to the library of St John 's College in Oxford ’ . |
| 26 | The crucial column is the derived total of offers made which can be compared with the maximum number to be made as a measure of the field 's fullness . |
| 27 | Longer-term decisions in the six companies are in general made as a result of discussions of strategic issues . |
| 28 | In the course of the exercise a great deal of knowledge had been gained about EPH activities and associated problems , and various other changes were made as a result of the investigation . |
| 29 | On the other hand , there is the approach which views mergers as highly undesirable and which doubts the claims made about efficiency improvements made as a result of mergers . |
| 30 | Yet in practice this view was not extended to take in the case of gender : the advances made as a result of the critique of behaviourism and pluralism did not go on to question the assumptions and mechanisms that continue to define politics as the affair of men . |