Example sentences of "make of the [noun sg] of [noun] " in BNC.

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1 What will the law make of the output of expert systems when it comes to deciding the authorship and ownership of that output ?
2 What sort of estimate did you make of the time of death ? "
3 I am well known here for the checkings I make of the movement of ships . ’
4 We are receiving many worthwhile bids from schools wishing to become technology schools in response to the announcement we made of the availability of capital funds for this purpose .
5 In both the Branch Establishments Scheme and the Manpower Planning Information System , considerable use is made of the ability of computers to perform large volumes of calculations with consistent accuracy .
6 Anthony Ingle is collecting material , on behalf of the Peter Warlock Society , for an archive and a discography of all the recordings that have been made of the music of Peter Warlock .
7 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 :
8 Classification encompassed the methods of Ray , Tournefort and Linnaeus , titles used by botanic writers and bibliographic details were included and mention made of the country of origin .
9 We are not all made of the stuff of John Weller , nor should it be necessary for us to be so .
10 Too much is made of the exhaustion of war .
11 Much is being made of the presence of pollen in the samples , yet Crone states that the mixture of pollen and fungus on the leaves and rocks probably could not have occurred naturally .
12 Before closing this section we offer a delightful second proof of this last theorem in which ( the reader is invited to verify ) no use is made of the concept of primeness .
13 Excellent use is made of the text of Tom Jones , but it is now less detectable that this is a writer who has done his stint of teaching English literature at university level .
14 We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ .
15 The religious identity of the fisherman is of particular interest in the way that this relates to their membership of fishermen 's organisations and the uses that are made of the system of state supports to the fishing industry in the Province .
16 At the time of Copernicus ( before the invention of the telescope ) , careful observations were made of the size of Venus .
17 A calculation is made of the percentage of non-arrivals , cancellations and guests that terminate their stay earlier than expected .
18 From each venous sample , 100 sets of chromosomes were examined , and counts made of the frequency of cells containing dicentric chromosomes with dissimilar chromosome fragments .
19 They are made of the kind of ingredients that wild fish eat — insects , shrimps , meat , fish , and algae are among the usual list .
20 Silence fell , during which Liz inspected Henrietta 's blue dress : it was poutily , boldly cut , made of the kind of shot , stiff , shiny non-absorbent kind of fabric that Liz herself avoided , for it made her sweat ; indeed it made her sweat to look at it .
21 Week by week Joan Sallis and others gave advice and placed the description of what were regarded as new problems against the background of why powers were changing and why the best use should be made of the variety of forces , pressures and influences which supported governing bodies .
22 Much criticism has recently been made of the performance of routine police patrol .
23 In mid-May Qatar and Iran were reported to have signed six agreements on areas of co-operation including air traffic , customs and the exchange of news ; a study was to be made of the feasibility of Iran supplying Qatar with fresh water through a pipe across the Gulf .
24 Yet David Carlton feels that too much should not be made of the gathering of opposition to Chamberlain 's National government policy of appeasement .
25 Mention should be made of the report of Alfred Barnard when he visited Lagavulin in the 188Os .
26 Criticism is also made of the Bank of England 's failure to discipline staff .
27 The arsenic data subset for North Wales has been specially prepared , in collaboration with the Geological Survey of Canada , to enable an assessment to be made of the use of arsenic in water as a pathfinder for the detection of precious-metal mineralisation and of potential natural and anthropogenic environmental hazards .
28 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 .
29 To ask the Secretary of State for Health what recent assessment he has made of the adequacy of community care provision for people with serious mental illness .
30 In fact , it could be argued that too little has been made of the naturalness of depression — that to a large extent it develops as an understandable reaction to life circumstances .
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