Example sentences of "was make [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The respondent was informed in the early hours of 17 August 1987 that complaint had been made against him and a report was made to New Scotland Yard . |
| 2 | Under a programme jointly funded by BGS , the Royal Society and the National Natural Science Foundation of China , a visit was made to north-eastern China to investigate the structural relationships between the North and South China cratons . |
| 3 | Meanwhile an interim award of £1 was made to full-time workers ; part-time workers got nothing . |
| 4 | Mr Kneeshaw said : ‘ We will have to look at the offer along with the rugby club because the offer was made to joint clubs but we are firmly against a buy-out . ’ |
| 5 | The nearest approach which was made to judicial independence was in 1289 , when Edward I enacted that the seneschal of Aquitaine was the principal seneschal set above all the sub-seneschals ( of the Agenais , Landes , Quercy , Limousin and so forth ) . |
| 6 | ( 7 ) In the report of the guardian ad litem reference was made to psychiatric assessments of the child . |
| 7 | In the report of the guardian ad litem reference was made to psychiatric assessments of the child . |
| 8 | In addition , a special award was made to Ludovic Kennedy for his outstanding contribution over many years in exposing miscarriages of justice . |
| 9 | The announcement was made to Downtown Radio shortly after three more shootings . |
| 10 | However , Oki 's decision was made to staunch the flow of red ink gushing from the unit , estimated by insiders at around $9m for the year ended last month . |
| 11 | A study was made of various options for the future of the laboratory and it was decided to diversify into commercial work of both a non-nuclear and an applied nuclear nature . |
| 12 | The playing surface was made of ill-fitting planks . |
| 13 | Use was made of modern inventions , including fingerprinting , photography , automobiles and telephones . |
| 14 | It was made of expensive brown leather , but it was n't fat , it was thin . |
| 15 | The harbour wall was made of solid concrete in fact the only thing that was n't concrete was the wood that ran down the harbour wall . |
| 16 | Few classes had access to an extensive range of poetry or play texts and little use was made of pre-20th century literature . |
| 17 | Still — the cushions underneath him were definitely softer than wood , the wine in the wooden cup beside him was much tastier than sap , and there could be absolutely no comparison between a squirrel and the girl sitting before him , clasping her knees and watching him thoughtfully , unless mention was made of certain hints of furriness . |
| 18 | Use was made of pre- and post-instructional tests to measure short-term learning performance with regard to these objectives . |
| 19 | A remarkable Marxist interpretation , for example , was made of Florentine painting from Giotto 's time to the fifteenth century , by Frederick Antal in the 1940s . |
| 20 | It was made of twisted black metal , ornamented with Eastern demons and orgies . |
| 21 | Mrs Handy walked barefoot across the floor to turn on the water tap at the kitchen sink which was made of stainless teel . |
| 22 | Every so often , at one licensed dealer , a box was passed round the established dealers , and a collection was made of unwanted leads . |
| 23 | The only er solid part of the wardrobe was in fact the front part , which was made of Sorry about that . |
| 24 | The roof of the cells was made of corrugated iron , imported from Birmingham . |
| 25 | It was made of dark wood and looked like a graceful gorilla 's paw . |
| 26 | The room was made of unpainted white stones . |
| 27 | Invariably this was made of boiled capon or chicken and beef , thickened with a special sort of pasta called tempestina ( ‘ small hail ’ ) or home-made tagliatelle . |
| 28 | On hitting a stop , the messenger released the parachute which was made of lightweight tissue paper , ballasted by a piece of card . |
| 29 | ‘ Most of the space station was made of theoretical structures , ’ he said . |
| 30 | The floor of Rose Taillé 's cottage was made of beaten earth covered with lino . |