Example sentences of "of the [noun pl] made " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sun led with an attack on the Sovereign for having asked the Bishop of Durham to a light lunch , but the rest of the papers made gloomy reading for the chairman . |
| 2 | An agreed statement issued by the Indian government at the end of the talks made no mention of Kashmir . |
| 3 | Some of the rides made Jane feel dizzy and there was one awful moment on the Pirate Ship when she thought she was going to be sick ! |
| 4 | For example , some assume that mastery is an all-or-nothing state and set the standard at 100 per cent although there is some flexibility depending on the nature of the errors made , if these are few . |
| 5 | The most attractive of the prospectuses made good use of photographs . |
| 6 | I see fostering , except under exceptional circumstances , as the in trust for the natural family' thing , and I think some of the efforts made to safeguard the child are in fact safeguarding the foster-parents … |
| 7 | We have found in the past that visitors have been most appreciative of the efforts made to inform them and have also been most complimentary on what they have seen . |
| 8 | Of an official reception he wrote : ‘ The magnificent room , the throne with Their Majesties , the number and brilliance of the uniforms , and the appearance of the ladies made an overwhelming impression . ’ |
| 9 | This view is based on the weight which attaches to the processes by which decisions are reached as well as to the content of the decisions made , that is to process or procedural rather than end-state principles . |
| 10 | Most of the bishops made their way by scholarships to the colegios mayores of the great universities from the obscurity of the minor provincial nobility . |
| 11 | The high social and economic position of the organizers made people reluctant to confront them . |
| 12 | His insistence as a public examiner that men who aspired to become Bachelors or Doctors of Divinity should show knowledge of the Scriptures rather than of the commentators made him unpopular with the Friars . |
| 13 | The smaller size of the boroughs made the GLC-style financing of voluntary groups more difficult . |
| 14 | The early wealth of the merchants made Bristol a banking centre and a centre for insurance business . |
| 15 | One of the bottles made its way back to the Brewery and is now a feature of the Guinness museum . |
| 16 | The atomic polarisation acts as a source term in the Maxwell equation : We thus have , within the limits of the approximations made , a complete , self-consistent set of equations for the evolution of the field-atom system , subject to appropriate boundary conditions . |
| 17 | Many of the women made it clear in the interviews that their concern is not simply to get housework done in the most efficient way and the shortest possible time . |
| 18 | The shadows of the minarets made gentle curves in the dust and when Owen looked up , there they were , graceful against the deep blue of the Egyptian night . |
| 19 | One of the girls made a crack that Rachaela had put on weight due to the food . |
| 20 | The boyfriends of the girls made up the numbers . |
| 21 | The metal ring attached to the vibrating receiver was cheap because one of the users made rings of different sizes by cutting up little sections of copper piping of different-sized bore . |
| 22 | These were placed in the upper course , tributary valleys where the steep gradients of the rivers made it easy to divert the water for only short distances to allow a sufficient fall to drive the water wheels . |
| 23 | Most of the locals made an appearance ramp skating on the telly which looked quite good but the street skating bit was quite lame . |
| 24 | Even if the courts purported only to be concerned with the fairness of the process of policy making and not with the substance of the policies made , it is very difficult to draw a sharp distinction between process and substance : complaints about process are usually , at bottom , complaints about substance — ‘ if we had been treated fairly , the outcome would have been different ’ . |
| 25 | It is only fair to say that the instruction given to children was excellent , almost the best they ever had and the multi-lingual abilities of the instructors made understanding very easy . |
| 26 | To all whom this epistle shall come , Greetings — Whereas we have been credibly informed by our well-beloved subject the right honourable Lord Clovelly , of Bury St Edmunds in Suffolk , and on behalf of our well-beloved subject Christopher Everard , Gentleman , that the said Christopher Everard hath lately discovered several Islands in the Hesperidean seas towards the continent of America , the one called Saint Thomas 's , alias Everhope ( though this be error ) , or in the native tongue Liamuiga , and another , as the savages of those parts name it , Oualie ; that we are further informed that these said Islands are possessed and inhabited only by the aforementioned savages and heathen people , and are not , nor at the time of the discovery were , in the possession or under the government of any Christian Prince , state or potentate , and thereupon the said Christopher Everard , being set forth and supplied on our shores for that purpose , made entry into the said Islands for and on behalf of our dear Father in heaven , and hath since with the consent and good liking of the natives made some beginning of a plantation and colony and likewise of an hopeful trade there , and hath caused divers of our subjects of this realm to remove themselves to the said Islands with purpose to proceed in so hopeful a work : KNOW THEREFORE that the said Lord Clovelly and Christopher Everard may be encouraged and the better enabled with the more ample maintenance and authority to effect the same , We do command the said Christopher Everard to be possessed of the said Islands and all our other loving subjects under him : And of our especial great and certain knowledge have given and granted unto the said Christopher Everard during our pleasure custody of the aforesaid Islands and of every creature , man , woman and child upon them together with full power and authority for us and in our name and as our Lieutenant to govern rule and order all . |
| 27 | It appears that the blood-curdling nature of the vows made little impression on them . |
| 28 | The ‘ how ’ of it occupied her mind as she stared out of the window , yet she had come to no definite conclusions when the sonorous drone of the engines made her eyelids start to droop . |
| 29 | If not , the logic of the threats made so far is that bombing must follow ; threats may have been unwise , but it would be even less wise to make them and fail to carry them out . |
| 30 | Some analysts of the eighties have in effect , developed and modified these approaches in response to some of the criticisms made earlier , and to the changing features of political life . |