Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] made " in BNC.

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1 What change of circumstances had come about which made them take an entirely different view ?
2 GRAHAM CHAPMAN and I wrote together almost full time between 1966 and 1973 , writes John Cleese , while producing sketches for The Frost Report , The 1948 Show and Monty Python , as well as several film scripts none of which made their way intact to the silver screen .
3 But in 1990 Toyota 's financial profit lengthened its lead over Honda and Nissan , both of which made financial losses .
4 Hellen and I attended several of the society 's Sunday afternoon showings of ‘ classics ’ of foreign films , two of which made lasting impressions : one was the famous Italian masterpiece ‘ The Cabinet of Dr Caligari ’ and the other was that delightful French film entitled ‘ Generals Sans Boutons ’ .
5 By 1907 , the CUB , acting on a plan initiated by W. H. Beveridge , was busy opening exchanges in every London borough , each of which made special provision for women and juveniles , and provided vocational guidance for school-leavers through working in co-operation with the ASEA and the Education Department of the LCC .
6 They were even an improvement on the normal spiral stairs supplied by other manufacturers , some of which made an uncomfortably tight spiral .
7 He told me some hair-raising stories of the casual , careless way in which bodies can be handled at the undertaker 's and in transit , the most common being losing the coffin on the way to the funeral because the doors have not been properly secured or the wrong name-plates having been attached , resulting in great distress to the relations of the deceased and confusion for the minister concerned , all of which made our dealings with Nigel seem positively reverential !
8 Mr and Mrs Singh kept most of their official correspondence between the pages of their telephone directory and on my weekly visits we sorted out the milk tokens , rates demands , post office giros , all of which made linguistic demands which were beyond the level of their competence .
9 His three designs , ‘ Troy ’ , ‘ Tuscany ’ and ‘ Arcady ’ , all of which made use of classical motifs , achieve variety without disturbing the overall flat pattern .
10 It had two wings , one of which made me think of a church .
11 Buzz spent the cab ride reminiscing about those times , some grim and some sad , but all of which made her smile .
12 The Hindus , he knew , at least refrained from eating pigs ( unlike the Chinese or the disgusting Christians of Byzantium ) , but he had heard that they had other habits the very thought of which made him swoon .
13 As the rain gradually died away , birds began to fight and squabble like fractious children just allowed out after being cooped up indoors ; but then they did n't have leaky roofs ; neither did they have to climb up there as soon as it was light to inspect the damage ; or have a meeting with Leo , the thought of which made her feel weak inside .
14 Three wells were drilled in the area in the 1980's — all of which made small gas discoveries — although two are excluded from this award .
15 So that when , one evening , Sally-Anne , radiant in pink and silver , a fortune in pearls around her neck , the mere sight of which made Havvie salivate internally , was gently led by him into a conservatory — at the Keppels ' this time — and proposed to , there was only one answer which she could give him , and that , of course , was yes .
16 The long , regimented day , six of which made up a working week , obviously constrained the recreational possibilities for factory workers .
17 More generally , the development of eurobond markets in a variety of currencies ( see section 5.1.4 below ) can largely be attributed to the imposition of withholding taxes , listing , disclosure and other regulatory requirements in domestic markets , all of which made development of an offshore market attractive ( although another factor was the increased importance of currency considerations in balance-sheet management , with the end of fixed exchange rates ) .
18 On the same day , two referendums were approved in Hesse , one of which made the protection of the environment a constitutional obligation .
19 All of which made it impossible to explain exactly why she 'd been so upset to find , after arriving , tired and exhausted , at the large house in Lowndes Square , that she was going to see even less of Ross than she had in New York ?
20 Rank 's ambitions in the US were dependent on the company 's films all being of a certain quality , but there was an insufficient understanding of what made a production unit like Ealing work , and the model was not copied elsewhere .
21 It was part of what made him want and love Eva .
22 Elsewhere we have argued that part of what made René Lévesque and Lee Iacocca effective as leaders was the temporal significance of their vision : they appealed powerfully to the specific needs of specific stakeholders at a specific time .
23 Just for a moment she let her hand linger on his sleeve , then slowly withdrew it , wondering if she was glad or sorry that he had given her such an insight into what made him the man he was today .
24 Go and talk to the fitters , interest myself in what made buses work and how they worked when down in the pits .
25 ‘ We are falling away from what made us a good side .
26 King penguins were nesting on the hare ground a short walk from our landing beach , and while some still had eggs ( which are hatched on top of the feet under a fold of skin on the belly ) , others already had young , some of whom had developed brown down which made them look like teddy bears !
27 Before we examine the 21 May Definition Order in detail , we must therefore summarise what can be discovered as to what made 1st Ukrainian Division , of all the formations originally surrendered to 5 Corps , a special case .
28 Curious as to what made it work , he built a crude model of it in wood .
29 Was n't at all sure that she wanted him to have learned anything about her that went to add up to what made her tick .
30 The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to .
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