Example sentences of "be made of " in BNC.
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| 1 | A similar statement can be made of the presbyterian community , which is almost wholly Northern , and whose main Southern presbytery is in the counties of old Ulster which remain in the Republic — Donegal , Cavan , and Monaghan . |
| 2 | Cameron and Menzies looked at each other , searching for signs of belief that something could still be made of the occasion . |
| 3 | If a movie were to be made of her American tour , one would see pages fly from calendars , clock hands spin and headlines slapped one on top of the next . |
| 4 | It is imperative that provision for suitable hospital discharge procedures is an integral part of contracts negotiated by district health authorities and GP budget holders , and is also included in requirements to be made of self-governing hospitals . |
| 5 | How is the story to be unfolded ? ls use to be made of the strictly ordered oldfashioned scènes and pas d'action , variations and/or divertissements ? |
| 6 | A similar analysis could be made of MacMillan 's Requiem . |
| 7 | Being charitable , this could be considered ongoing profit , but what is to be made of Sandhurst Marketing ? |
| 8 | Lord Lane said : ‘ No mention is to be made of any of the facts upon which these three orders were founded until after the conclusion of the last of the three trials involved , whenever that may be . ’ |
| 9 | If there are thought to be sufficient similarities between the markets in two or more countries , comparisons can be made of selected statistics from each . |
| 10 | Since the anthropological material forms an organic whole with the writings of Marx and Engels , and is important for everything they wrote , a somewhat arbitrary selection needs to be made of what to examine in detail . |
| 11 | Aside from dealing , as I have been doing , with one of the major subjects and themes of Cuzco painting , an inventory could be made of ways in which painters departed from European models , or from academic notions of excellence . |
| 12 | The wheedling tone as well as the now seldom-used paternal appellation told Wexford that a monstrous request was to be made of him . |
| 13 | Mention must be made of those creatures that inhabit the inter-tidal zone , that is the region of the shore between high- and low-tides . |
| 14 | A great advantage of these tests — one that was not found in ‘ real ’ tasks — is that sets of them can be made of equal difficulty . |
| 15 | The hub , bearings and rims of otherwise wooden wheels might be made of iron . |
| 16 | But Venables had promised that his men would be made of sterner stuff this time , and their first-half guile and style foiled Tranmere 's honest endeavours . |
| 17 | This code , which is still adhered to , specifies that roofs must be made of slate , all woodwork must be white , and walls must be built in local stone or rendered white ; it also specifies that houses must be a certain distance apart . |
| 18 | What should be made of all this ? |
| 19 | But the Kuwaiti royal family appears to be made of sterner stuff . |
| 20 | A general use can be made of ideas of particulars . |
| 21 | Mortgages can be made of chattels personal as well as of land . |
| 22 | This association was confirmed by analysis of early first-century BC Greek coins ( fig. 5.5 ) from the region ; some of these coins proved to be made of brass typical of the cementation process and they thus pre-date Roman use of the alloy . |
| 23 | The impressive free-standing sculptures on the podium of the building were shown to be made of two types of Pentelic marble . |
| 24 | If the date is to be precise to the year of felling , the bark must also be present , otherwise an estimate must be made of the number of missing rings corresponding to likely wastage by the carpenter . |
| 25 | Yet David Carlton feels that too much should not be made of the gathering of opposition to Chamberlain 's National government policy of appeasement . |
| 26 | Mention might be made of four other special rules relating to the involvement of vulnerable persons in sexual activity . |
| 27 | Yet too much can be made of these awards and rewards , these comforts and pressing benefits . |
| 28 | The discovery of Fawn turned the story from an impenetrable imbroglio into a juicy tale , and set the appetite for whatever show , or film , could be made of it . |
| 29 | It is a relief to me to take up this pen and sit at a table and endeavour to sort out what I feel pressing in upon me and to know that if sense can be made of it you will make it . |
| 30 | Maybe at the end of our enquiry we shall decide that no philosophical sense can be made of the world — and the world does not seem to be primarily linguistic . |