Example sentences of "make [was/were] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The recommendations finally made were of a highly practical nature , but they established a tradition of careful selection which was easily glamorized in both the public and the official mind . |
| 2 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 3 | As might be expected from the above , the most extensive changes to be made were in procedures for recording audit work . |
| 4 | Rachaela thought that the mistake her own mother had made was in her brainwashed attempts to care for and become involved with a child she did not want . |
| 5 | Until that time , the only statutory means by which payments of arrears in excess of the then statutory limit of 12 months could be made was by means of a late appeal to the social security appeal . |
| 6 | But perhaps the most crucial changes they made were to what Gordon referred to as the " macrostructure signalling " within the passage . |
| 7 | The first advances she herself made were to Sylvia , Sue 's four-year-old daughter . |
| 8 | There is no doubt that many of its customers have used loans in cases where they would previously have use ( more costly ) HP a 1977 survey showed that 59 per cent of the loans it made were for motor vehicle purchase . |
| 9 | Ironically , some of the breakthroughs we made were with others from the UK market . |
| 10 | Up to then , however , on Dr Anstey 's figures the profits made were at least the equal of most other areas of investment , with 9.5 per cent being the aggregate decennial average from 1761 to 1807 . |
| 11 | Hari sighed and returned to her task , the shoes she was making were for Emily Grenfell . |
| 12 | The point that the Hon. Member for Dundee , East was making was about assistance to management-employee buy-out teams . |
| 13 | Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes . |
| 14 | An important study Haworth made was on how the disaccharides — compounds , including table sugar , made up from two basic carbohydrate units — are linked together . |
| 15 | The order which he in fact made was against the health authority requiring it to ‘ cause such measures ( including , if so required to prolong his life , artificial ventilation ) to be applied to [ the child ] for so long as they are capable of prolonging his life . ’ |
| 16 | The noise she made was like a cry from hell , and James knew her suffering had turned this place into hell itself . |
| 17 | Hence the provision made was in the form of public sector over spill , particularly at Longbenton , but also within Wallsend and Tyne mouth County Borough . |
| 18 | ‘ Best investment I ever made was in that place . |