Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] make [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the official version of events , interceptions were made only on the authority of a warrant issued by the appropriate Secretary of State under his own hand . |
| 2 | During speaking , but not in the silent conditions , free movements were made more by the right than by the left hand ( see also Kimura and Humphrey , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Having reached the conclusion that there was consideration for the agreement made on June 28 and June 29 , 1973 , I must next consider whether even if that agreement , varying the terms of the original ship-building contract of April 10 , 1972 , was made under a threat to break that original contract and that the various increased instalments were made consequentially under the varied agreement , the increased sums can be recovered as money had and received . |
| 4 | But it is evident that the species is now a regular winter visitor on a large scale , although the data available to des Forges and Harber suggested that the winter flocks were made up of the breeding population , non-breeding birds and the young of the year , except in very cold weather ; this can not be so today , although cold weather influxes still occur . |
| 5 | Reference was made again to the judgment in Hector where Lord Bridge of Harwich said , at p. 318 : |
| 6 | Reference was made earlier to the mobilizing and reconciling styles of leadership . |
| 7 | A brief reference was made earlier to the subject of purchasing . |
| 8 | The boy was making straight for the stone , holding his stick up and making little darting glances all round him . |
| 9 | The discovery was made not by the local health officials or the DHSS but at Ahrens ' own instigation , using the services of a London specialist and Manchester University 's rheumatology department which studies aluminium uptake in dialysis patients . |
| 10 | Perhaps , unfortunately , a fairly high proportion of the counts were made just after the 1962/63 winter when populations of many species were very low . |
| 11 | The announcement was made yesterday at the People 's Palace museum on Glasgow Green . |
| 12 | This point was made also in the reports of the mathematics and science working groups . |
| 13 | This same point was made earlier during the discussion of general applications , and examples were given of how it can assist with such things as planning , exploring relationships , putting particular aspects of an organisation into context , etc ; in other words , using it as a basis for creative thinking and logical deduction . |
| 14 | Maradona , who captains the defending World Cup champions , was quoted in several Italian newspapers yesterday as saying that ‘ World Cup groups had been predetermined and the draw was made just for the fun of the television audience ’ . |
| 15 | Only Maurice was made fast to the wharf . |
| 16 | The sense of crisis was made worse in the middle of the year when , as the pinnacle of his détente policy , de Gaulle visited Moscow . |
| 17 | However , speaking to Hot Press 's George Byrne at a later date , Johnny Marr attempted to dispel the controversy surrounding Gannon : ‘ Things were made out of the situation which we did n't intend . |
| 18 | Our investigations of characteristics of user establishments were made only for the private sector , since we assumed non-market forces to be of too great importance in the public sector to permit most of the relevant propositions to be tested . |
| 19 | Hearts ' bad day was made worse with the news that Celtic had moved past them into second place in the Premier Division after beating Falkirk 3–1 . |
| 20 | Representations were made then to the representatives of the Kenyan Government in both London and Nairobi . |
| 21 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 22 | That may even have been an underestimate since the count was made mainly in the dry , lowland areas whereas numbers of elephants may still have existed in undeveloped parts of the central mountain massif . |
| 23 | However , the appointment was made unilaterally by the USA , which during the last days of the Noriega regime had rejected a Panamanian proposal to appoint Tomás Altamirano Duque . |
| 24 | The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches : |
| 25 | I think I should add very shortly that having considered the many authorities cited , even if I had come to a different conclusion on the issue about consideration , I would have come to the same decision adverse to the owners on the question whether the payments were made voluntarily in the sense of being made to close the transaction . |
| 26 | Substantial payments were made out of the Forest revenues for these and other purposes relating to the maintenance and upkeep of the castle . |
| 27 | Whether payments were made out of the temple 's revenues to sustain the king 's household is not known . |
| 28 | The Donaldson matter was petty and tiresome but much of office life was made up of the petty and tiresome . |
| 29 | More far-reaching proposals were made both by the Majority and Minority Reports of the Royal Commission on the Poor Laws , both much influenced by William Beveridge 's analysis of the causes of unemployment . |
| 30 | In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |