Example sentences of "made of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the central issue raised by the subtitle of the show , art in or out of the mainstream , some statistical study was made of the representation of women artists and the milestones in their careers . |
| 2 | Crates belonging to millionaires were impressive : beamed and lined with sailcloth , they had solid , elegant walls made of the most expensive grades of tropical wood , with the rings and knots cut and polished like antiques . |
| 3 | Excellent use is made of the text of Tom Jones , but it is now less detectable that this is a writer who has done his stint of teaching English literature at university level . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Often so much fuss is made of the mother-to-be that the father-to-be feels left out . |
| 6 | Anthropology has played a significant part in illustrating ways in which symbolic use is made of the body to make statements about the condition of society itself ( Mauss 1935 , Douglas 1973 , Blacking 1977 , etc. ) , and hair became an apposite symbolic indicator of the problems the forces of control were faced with at this time . |
| 7 | Cameron and Menzies looked at each other , searching for signs of belief that something could still be made of the occasion . |
| 8 | The removal of organs for transplantation is permitted either if the deceased person has previously indicated in writing his willingness to be a donor , for example by signing an organ donor card , or if , when enquiries are made of the surviving relatives , no objections are raised . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | That their duvet cover is made of the Russian flag and the Union Jack can be passed by ; better are such details as the fact that Russians call spam ‘ Roosevelt smile ’ ; the question of whether Down 's syndrome chidren are known as Mongols in the USSR , and a dispute over private medicine : ‘ You think I 've fled 1,000 miles from scientific communism just to live with Mrs Engels ? ’ asks Slava . |
| 11 | Scarcity value apart , the Stag is made of the right stuff by classic yardsticks . |
| 12 | Much use made of the lokole , a percussion instrument employed to communicate between villages . |
| 13 | Much play is made of the dual nature of Woman as madonna and whore : a chestnut by now , surely to God . |
| 14 | BLACKPOOL — Since her first as leader of the Conservative Party , delivered here at the Winter Gardens in 1975 , Margaret Thatcher and her team of speechwriters have made of the conference speech a minor art form . |
| 15 | The issues about which respondents expressed concern included the use made of the results by , variously , the police authorities and the IRA , and the associated question of whether the field-worker was a spy for the authorities or the Republican paramilitaries ( on researchers as spies see Hunt 1984 : 288–9 ; Manning 1972 : 248 ) ; the obtrusiveness of the ethnographer 's ubiquitous notepad ; sensitivity to how the research might compromise their personal security or lead to a transfer , and worthies over the field-worker 's religion ; and the whole focus and topic of the investigation . |
| 16 | We find Makarenko by the 1930s writing , ‘ How is it that the resistance of materials is studied in all higher technical institutes , while in the pedagogical institutes no study is made of the resistance of personalities to educational measures ? ’ . |
| 17 | Linings Most lightweight sleeping bags are made of the same shell material inside and out . |
| 18 | The gun was returned to its usual place in the comer of the room and no more mention was made of the dead jackdaw . |
| 19 | There is so much to see , even though it is all basically made of the same ingredients . |
| 20 | Frequent use was made of the bressummer arrangement described in the preceding chapter for the introduction of large openings , such as shopfronts , into pre-existing buildings . |
| 21 | Use was also made of the power of the sea by constructing tidal mills along the coast . |
| 22 | It is built of glowing limestone , known as Coral Rag , a stone made of the fossilized remains of coral and other shells . |
| 23 | As usual , much was made of the fact that he was younger brother to the wildly successful Peregrine , now in Japan on tour with his group . |
| 24 | Much emphasis was put on the importance of identifying the key decision-takers and making sure that they had the right information — much was made of the necessity of their getting a balanced picture on which to take their decisions . |
| 25 | Way back , he found the sketch he 'd made of the hide . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ You , God , are my brother 's keeper , and look what a mess you have made of the job ! ’ |
| 28 | Yet David Carlton feels that too much should not be made of the gathering of opposition to Chamberlain 's National government policy of appeasement . |
| 29 | Much is made of the distinction between Nature and Culture , and the consequent equation of women with Nature and men with Culture . |
| 30 | You can express yourself by planting in ancient wooden wheelbarrows or new ones made of the purpose . |