Example sentences of "made [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our own interest in dunnocks was aroused several years ago by a chance comment , made over a cup of coffee . |
| 2 | There is no guarantee at all that the former , simply by taking place in a teacher 's place of work , will somehow be more relevant or valuable than the latter ( a point made over a decade ago Alexander 1980 — in the context of a previous incarnation of current debates ) . |
| 3 | He knew and practised all the rules of art , and from a composition of Raphael , Carracci , and Guido , made up a style , of which the only fault was , that it has no manifest defects and no striking beauties ; and that the principles of his composition are never blended together , so as to form one uniform body original in its kind , or excellent in any view . |
| 4 | Lionello Venturi considered lives of artists made up a basic category of art criticism , buttressing his opinion with accounts of writings by Vasari and others . |
| 5 | So I just made up a face , drew it for them . |
| 6 | Leaders representing religious parties , Kurds , communists and pro-Syrian Baathists made up a steering committee which graciously answered reporters ' questions . |
| 7 | In the morning , she made up a cot for Oreste , placing on the pillow a small felt rabbit Pilade had once loved . |
| 8 | She just made up a load of stories to cheer herself up . ’ |
| 9 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 10 | Then , as another kind of exorcism , I made up a list of : |
| 11 | When Cheddar was finally reached at about ten o'clock , no one would take them in , until an innkeeper had pity on them and made up a bed in the garret . |
| 12 | Narrow , busy , and densely built , Lime Street was the poorest of the village streets , and probably provided homes for the labourers and artisans — clothworkers , candlemakers , quarrymen and others who made up a large part of the Stowey community in the late eighteenth century . |
| 13 | We made up a bed on the floor and we took turns to sleep in the bed itself . |
| 14 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 15 | ‘ Oh yes , made up a story like that that she 'd have known her gran would see through … |
| 16 | ‘ To the lighthouse ’ had been our motto , and there we went , leading George , while the others made up a fire and roasted whole the lamb they had brought with them for a picnic luncheon . |
| 17 | The chairmen of these committees made up a Board of Ministers . |
| 18 | On the one hand he had to contend with a tough gang of young people attracted to the youth club , and on the other to care for the elderly people who made up a considerable proportion of his congregation . |
| 19 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 20 | And how many days and weeks and years made up a duration was anybody 's guess . |
| 21 | Manual workers made up a large proportion of the TUC membership , and the health of many of these was depicted as having been destroyed by their employment ; and , moreover , it was held that all workers had a right to a period of leisure in later life supported by-a full subsistence pension . |
| 22 | The Prado ‘ Virgin and Saints ’ , the Kelvingrove ‘ Woman taken in Adultery ’ and the ‘ Concert Champetre ’ made up a coherent early Titian , and their juxtaposition with the Antwerp ‘ Jacopo Pesaro presented to St Peter ’ — so often , as here , dated c. 1506 — eliminates a central confusion in the reconstruction of his early work , for it must be post-1511 . |
| 23 | She was home but , like him , an exile : together they made up a little principality but it was inside the great metropolis . |
| 24 | The main classes of vessel which made up a fleet were first-class armoured ships ( which were to hand out and absorb the punishment of a pitched battle ) , other ironclads used for cruising , coast-defence and the many functions of the old sail frigates , and the ‘ flotilla ’ of smaller ships , of which the commonest were gunboats and the newest , torpedo-boats . |
| 25 | But just one product , a heart drug called Tenormin , made up a third of its drugs sales last year , and this treatment faces new competition . |
| 26 | This was often the case with the aged who made up a high proportion of workhouse residents . |
| 27 | Rate support and local authority influence was expected to improve the often low standards of denominational schools , which made up a high proportion of existing elementary schools . |
| 28 | What I think is , there 's an Iron Age settlement at the top of the Grove , and I think someone found this woman 's skull there , and made up a story about it , the way people do . ’ |
| 29 | That class would vote solidly as a class for candidates representative of that class , and since it made up a clear majority of the population , what could stand in the way of its political ascendancy ? |
| 30 | Steel-Maitland , Boraston , Jenkins and Fraser made up a team of experts , all of sufficient status to deal with politicians who might call into the office ; the work of the office was departmentalized for the first time and the heads of department brought together into a supervising board . |