Example sentences of "have be make [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces . |
| 2 | He could tell nothing from their faces ; they could have been made of stone . |
| 3 | They might have been made of stone . |
| 4 | I was out of my element , and the air itself could have been made of gold for all the use it was to me . |
| 5 | Considering the mess Hollywood might have been made of Triumph Of The Spirit ( Rocky in the Death Camps ? ) , we should be grateful this true life biopic about a Greek boxer imprisoned in Auschwitz and forced to fight for his captors ' entertainment has ended up the way it has dignified but dull , lacking any real historical punch . |
| 6 | Another member of the Pocket family , Sarah , ‘ a little dry brown corrugated old woman , with a small face that might have been made of walnut shells , and a large mouth like a cat 's without the whiskers ’ , toadies to Miss Havisham in the hope of a legacy , but is eventually left , according to Joe Gargery , only ‘ twenty-five pound per annium for to buy pills , on account of being bilious ’ . |
| 7 | Underneath this she wore black cotton trousers — ideally these should have been made of silk , but she felt sure no one would notice . |
| 8 | They were so still that they might have been made of granite . |
| 9 | Black Fury could only have been made at Warner Bros , a studio which had firmly aligned with Roosevelt and the New Deal and which quite clearly believed that there was a market for films which dealt with topical issues and in particular with matters of social justice . |
| 10 | A party receiving a payment which should have been made into court shall forthwith notify the proper officer in writing and pay the money received into court ( Ord 11 , r 1A ) . |
| 11 | It was a monumental folly , which could have been made for horror films . |
| 12 | The second reason why an apparent consent or refusal of consent may not be a true consent or refusal is that it may not have been made with reference to the particular circumstances in which it turns out to be relevant . |
| 13 | How or why the interchange of decorative elements was carried out is more difficult to understand ; the moulds for casting the brooches may have been made with models constituting separate elements of the decoration of the brooches , or entirely remodelled each time a brooch was made , with variations . |
| 14 | ‘ By rights they should have been made on Stir-up Sunday , only I was too busy . |
| 15 | More distinction might have been made between Largo and Grave , perhaps , since both occur in the Concerti da chiesa ( Nos. 1–8 ) . |
| 16 | However , some types , the squat jars , bag beakers , pouch bottles and cone beakers ( Evison 1972 ) are rare on the Continent and may well have been made in England ; the Faversham area is a strong contender for the centre of this production . |
| 17 | Yet the very large concentrations at Faversham ( Harden 1956b , pp. 146–7 ) and the fact that some supposed European types are more common in England than on the Continent , for instance the Kempston type cone beakers ( Evison 1972 ) and bag beakers ( Harden 1978 , p. 2 ) , encourage a view that some at least may have been made in England . |
| 18 | Mr Hurd 's speech this week in Luxembourg , which called for the European Council ( as summits are known ) to have strong links with a reinforced WEU , would not have been made in Mrs Thatcher 's day . |
| 19 | As no order will have been made in respect of the property at this stage , the defendant appears to be free to dispose of it before the order can be made and thus defeat the object of making the order . |
| 20 | When he turned his head it vanished , although he thought he heard the faintest of noises that might have been made by claws scrabbling on stone . |
| 21 | His mother had been married once before in a stunning white dress , which Karl thinks may have been made by Doucet — one of the great early twentieth-century designers . |
| 22 | I buy a cup of tea so thin it could have been made by Rachel 's landlady , and I stare out through a steamed-up café window across the cold empty promenade . |
| 23 | On the ground in front of the simple headstone were several dark splashes , which could only have been made by blood . |
| 24 | ‘ Today 's statement should have been made by Michael Heseltine , not a law officer . |
| 25 | Alternatively , the change may have been made by Wulfstan himself , in much the same way that in his different records of the Enham meeting he omitted from VI Æthelred death penalties contained in V Æthelred . |
| 26 | ‘ His phone calls to you may not even have been made from Geneva . ’ |
| 27 | Apart from the bronze bolt , the other parts of the lock would have been made from iron , including a spring to hold the pins in place . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't have been making for Gullholm , though , can I ? ’ |