Example sentences of "[noun sg] was made of the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again no mention was made of the possibility of making an adoption order with a condition of access . |
| 2 | With the member countries of the EC getting ever closer , I was surprised that no mention was made of the confusion that exists in English speaking member countries between the professions of chemistry and pharmacy . |
| 3 | Cheshire 's assistant chief constable , Brian Baister , said in response to last night 's IRA statement : ‘ A warning was given half-an-hour before , but no mention was made of the town of Warrington . |
| 4 | In last month 's In Benefit ( 22 April ) mention was made of the value of a benefits check when a client is being assessed for his/her ability to pay towards charges . |
| 5 | This may have been because my hopes were raised when mention was made of the need to consider ‘ the environmental effect of each stage leading to an alternative energy system ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ Detectives were called in to investigate the theft of the car but no mention was made of the filofax , ’ said a RUC source . |
| 7 | No mention was made of the place of other Tanzanian news within this Ministerial pecking order . |
| 8 | The latest attacked happened on Monday night at about 6 pm when a thorough search was made of the fort . |
| 9 | An untidy search was made of the kitchen and bedroom and jewellery taken . |
| 10 | A police search was made of the area , but no cat was found . |
| 11 | If a thorough search was made of the ale-house and its out-buildings he would go to prison for a great many years . |
| 12 | A transcript was made of the examination . |
| 13 | On the central issue raised by the subtitle of the show , art in or out of the mainstream , some statistical study was made of the representation of women artists and the milestones in their careers . |
| 14 | A broad count was made of the number of individual programmes or courses , described or referred to , within all the information supplied by each authority , in order to impose a general framework on the data collected . |
| 15 | Frequent use was made of the bressummer arrangement described in the preceding chapter for the introduction of large openings , such as shopfronts , into pre-existing buildings . |
| 16 | At MIT in Project Intrex use was made of the computer to teach the user how to carry out an information search . |
| 17 | In 1636 Mersenne made a series of tests on wires of different materials but it is doubtful if any use was made of the information . |
| 18 | Political capital was made of the achievement . |
| 19 | No secret was made of the fact that the government bureaucracy was guided in everything it did by the CPSU bureaucracy , the Secretariat : ‘ The CPSU , and particularly its full time staff , monopolizes the processes of generating and controlling political power in the USSR , transmitting its binding decisions to elites in state and public organizations through its territorial party committees and primary organizations ’ ( Barghoorn and Remington , 1986 , p. 305 ) . |
| 20 | In this study a survey was made of the activity and antigen concentrations of plasminogen activators in normal mucosa biopsies obtained from three different locations of the upper gastrointestinal tract in control patients . |
| 21 | The whole building was made of the island pine . |
| 22 | A few years ago , an assessment was made of the efficacy of treating house-dust-mite , allergic patients with a combination of mite exclusion and the 200C potency of house dust . |
| 23 | Indeed , during what was the longest obscenity trial in British publishing history , great play was made of the involvement of schoolchildren , one of the charges being that the editors : |
| 24 | Much play was made of the fact that , since he had been present at the murder of John , duke of Burgundy , at Montereau he could not properly and worthily inherit the throne , from which he was now excluded . |
| 25 | Great play was made of the reciprocity argument . |
| 26 | An initial estimate was made of the typesetting combination responsible for the character . |