Example sentences of "made [prep] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often compromise is not possible : a choice has to be made between diametrically opposed policies . |
| 2 | Roman bronze coins of the early second century BC were still being used in the first century AD , and very little bronze coinage was made between about 150 and 20BC . |
| 3 | Sometimes a specific progression was noted — first , attendance at more external courses , then development of more internal programmes , with a distinction being made between more external courses wanted for professional staff , more internal training wanted for non-professional staff : |
| 4 | A Sechem 's mind was like a sponge , soaking up information until a connection could be made between apparently unrelated areas of scientific fact . |
| 5 | It has implied that where ideological commitments are involved a distinction may be made between relatively easy gestures and hard administrative battles . |
| 6 | Despite the major savings that can be made through relatively simple actions , the government largely ignores the possibilities . |
| 7 | Applications for the 1992 award are now being accepted and can be made through only one academic institution . |
| 8 | An UNCTAD report prepared for the conference said that savings of US$75,000 million a year could be made through more efficient trade administration , including computerized customs procedures . |
| 9 | just by way of comparison for rough guidance that there is a regulation or or something like that which says , if I remember rightly , that erm er payments must not be made for either services or goods not supplied above a figure of two thousand pounds without er being taken to committee first . |
| 10 | This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system . |
| 11 | A case can be made for both its constitutional propriety and its administrative efficiency . |
| 12 | It is for this reason that a study carried out by Addison ( 1984 ) in the London Borough of Wandsworth , of the social care plans that were made for just two elderly people is of such value , and worthy of attention from practitioners in this field . |
| 13 | A special overlap and border adhesive , like a thick pva , is made for just this type of situation . |
| 14 | This is exactly the prediction made for geometrically identical animals of different size by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson in his classic ‘ On Growth and Form ’ published in 1917 . |
| 15 | Having to stop on every other move to bury one hand at a time in the confines of barely warm armpits made for rather a stilted ascent , but it was worth it . |
| 16 | This change was designed to limit the scope for corruption ; the system of " preferences " had made for easily identifiable blocs of voters who could be organized — especially by the Mafia and other such groups in the south — to swing behind a particular candidate in return for future favours . |
| 17 | In general the practice of searching wrecks for treasure is deplored by the Museum : in most cases no provision is made for properly recording where items were located ; only items of commercial value are salvaged and there is no interest in the wreck as an entity or the long-term conservation issues involved in raising perishable items such as iron and wood from the sea bed . |
| 18 | ‘ Provision would be made for over sixteen million phantom children in the families containing less than three children , while those in excess of that number , over 1¼ million in all in families containing more than three children would still remain unprovided for . ’ |
| 19 | Shamir insisted that the alliance was made for purely pragmatic reasons and that his government remained firmly opposed to the policy of " transfer " . |
| 20 | Ever since she had left school Paula had worked in one of the big department stores in Bristol and she loved it , although the lengthy journey made for very long days and the bus fares ate holes in her meagre salary . |
| 21 | Such a laugh was made for very few . |
| 22 | If the need for more labour intensive economic activities is recognised , and if the full social costs of continuing rural decline and urban expansion are calculated then a strong case can be made for more determined political action and considerably increased government investment in many DRAs . |
| 23 | The initial emphasis of the project was therefore linguistic and , clinically examined , it might have appeared that to carry on with current curricula , making the change of language policy the only variable , would have made for more easily comparable results . |
| 24 | ‘ Debt ’ , with its overtones of fault and defaulting , embarrassment and mismanagement , gradually changed into the more significant ‘ overindebtedness ’ — though , of course , newspaper subs hung on to the monosyllabic short word which fitted more easily into headlines and made for more racy reading in the copy . |
| 25 | Third , a compact market made for more efficient advertising sales . |
| 26 | The near universality of agricultural cooperatives for purchasing , marketing and savings activities made for more efficient organization and greater security for farmers . |
| 27 | They 've been made for more recent Carnivals . |
| 28 | A 'sell alongside " clause , whereby any offer made for more than 30% or 50% of the shares should be extended to all members , may be appropriate . |
| 29 | If such stipulations are made for so mundane a practice as motoring , they would seem to be reasonable precautions for protecting our environment for the rest of time from possible damage by man-made creatures . |
| 30 | These new data have made for better informed controversies but have not resolved them all . |