Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [prep] [noun] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the current time , all sorts of bodies and organizations can apply to have an attachment of earnings made on someone who owes money . |
| 2 | Many of us saw this as an opportunity for mankind to make a small gesture of recompense to the cetaceans ( the whale family ) for the abuses we had inflicted upon them . |
| 3 | Under an instrument of government made by an Act of Parliament , Dyfed County Council is the College 's maintaining authority . |
| 4 | Like her , he tries to set local government within ‘ the context of the encompassing political economy ’ , but he also argues that Cockburn 's approach , by presenting local government as an instrument of capital makes it ‘ unproblematic and so renders any detailed study of it almost superfluous ’ ( Dearlove , 1979 , p. 217 ) . |
| 5 | ‘ The case is of importance both because of its possible effect on Mr Anderson and also because an allegation of murder made in a civil action , particularly after an acquittal , is a matter of justifiable public concern and interest . |
| 6 | The use of linear programming as an aid to decision making when allocating scarce investment funds has been widely advocated . |
| 7 | Destutt 's science of ideas was both a scientific study and an aid to policy making through identifying errors in understanding the ways of the world ( Lichtheim 1967 : 8 ) . |
| 8 | There is a school of thought that claims that faith is an act of will made in defiance of the irrationality of believing that God exists . |
| 9 | An act of dispersal made in secrecy , often reluctantly at the behest of political masters , immediately becomes as public as the shelves of the local bookshop . |
| 10 | The arguments surrounding the issue , important in assessing Thom 's work , were also vital to an investigation of gold-weights made by the Ashanti people of Ghana . |
| 11 | Now this may sound like fatuous bluster but suspicion of businessmen ought to be understandable in an era of commerce made squalid by stock-market muggings on a grand scale . |
| 12 | Emboldened by an alliance with Britain made in 1902 , Japan attacked Russian forces in January 1904 and proceeded to inflict a series of devastating defeats upon her by land and sea . |
| 13 | It is thus possible to describe an assembly of entities making up a component as a set of elements , such as shown in Figure 2.2 , for both the geometry and the function . |
| 14 | According to him an emphasis on processes makes such great demands upon the teacher ( an insight gained when he was director of the Humanities Curriculum Project ) that any proposal for curriculum development should be regarded as tentative , having the status of an hypothesis to be tested by teachers in their own classrooms . |
| 15 | Leadership in the context of HRM requires an emphasis on policy making and managing interpersonal relationships and the effective delegation of other functions . |
| 16 | The designer was Margaret Kaye , who had just had an exhibition of collages made with fabric , and she used a similar technique to try to provide the mixture of fantasy and realism needed to match the ballet . |
| 17 | SERIOUSLY Fun , an exhibition of models made out of Lego toy building bricks , is to go on show at Bersham Heritage Centre , near Wrexham , from June 26 August 22 . |
| 18 | I did two rabbit sculptures for an exhibition in Yorkshire made of cow much on a metal frame . |
| 19 | Here 's an example of people making the same request in the three different styles . |
| 20 | Where tin was absent , as in Colombia , it could be used as an alloy for copper to make tumbaga , a kind of gold-bronze easier to cast than tin-bronze and capable of reproducing finer detail . |
| 21 | An Investor in People makes a public commitment from the top to develop all employees to achieve its business objectives . |
| 22 | Zaidie and Matadial were the most important Crown witnesses to the facts , or alleged facts , which preceded and followed the shooting and the statements were one made by Zaidie to the police on 12 January 1987 , the day after the shooting , one by Matadial on the same day and an addendum by Matadial made on 9 May 1987 . |
| 23 | On the other hand an attack on Spain made very good sense for anyone who wanted to follow a policy of overseas expansion . |
| 24 | The committee , chaired by Conservative MP Hugh Rossi , wants an amendment to the Trade Descriptions Act to help put an end to companies making misleading " green " claims bought about by the rise of green consumerism . |
| 25 | In February 1989 , the Lord Chancellor was reported as having sought an explanation of remarks made at a dinner by Sir James Miskin , Recorder of London . |
| 26 | What Marx meant by a particular society was an organization of people making a living together . |
| 27 | Deposits would be returned to the payee unless the case went to a full hearing and the party which had paid the deposit lost and had an order for costs made against them , in which case the deposit would be forfeit as part of the costs payable . |
| 28 | This was further consideration of an order for costs made by the House of Lords [ 1991 ] 2 A.C. 476 on 13 June 1991 under section 18 of the Legal Aid Act 1988 in these proceedings under the Child Abduction and Custody Act 1985 . |
| 29 | Clean technology : an evaluation of policy making and implementation in the UK |
| 30 | And an egg-stravaganza of eggs made their appearance at Grayswood School last week when the pupils put on their thinking caps to make some weird and wonderful creations . |