Example sentences of "[conj] [noun] be make [noun] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Where speech is made criminal by direct reference to its contents , the way is opened for those in authority to censor minority or officially deprecated opinions .
2 An unsigned internal letter dated 13 February to the operations staff at MEHQ states that Stirling was making arrangements with the Eighth Army for further raids .
3 The Secretariat of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species ( CITES ) has warned that traders are making use of fake export permits in an effort to circumvent CITES bans .
4 Let us remember that parents are making choices about their children and their future .
5 The spokesman said that China was making representations to the UK over the meeting .
6 In view of the fact that Miliutin was made chairman of the new local government commission the prospects for a generous solution looked good , but the commission made little progress in the first year of its life .
7 Finally , fears that fundholders would encourage referrals to private clinics to avoid a charge on their budgets seem to be unfounded , certainly as far as these aggregate data are concerned , and there was only limited evidence that fundholders were making use of their freedom to contract with private hospitals for outpatient services for NHS patients .
8 But the measure of performance in dollar terms helps to confirm that BP is making progress towards its overall aim of adding value to its assets at a time when analysts generally consider the international oil industry as a whole to be under continuing pressure through uncertain trends in oil price .
9 In 1882 A. Geikie was promoted to Director-General and Howell was made Director in Scotland but Geikie , although now based in London , kept control of Highland work .
10 If Worcester were to make progress in this competition , the wicket of England captain Graham Gooch had to be claimed — and quickly .
11 — Young people seeking advice on contraception and Aids are making use of a new health clinic .
12 It was mikva night , and the last thing in the world that she felt like doing was making love to her husband — she could have quite cheerfully strangled him !
13 The very next day he was upbraided by the professor for giggling out loud in Gross Anatomy : Rolf and Rudolph were making jokes about the new female corpse .
14 If people were making demands on him for what he owed them , he should assemble them and lay before them a fair statement of his past transactions , of his present condition and his future prospects .
15 But the single-crystal is expensive and scientists are making cells of cheaper polycrystalline silicon .
16 The aim of industry and commerce is to make money for shareholders and not the distribution of money to worthy causes .
17 In September he was appointed royal hydrographer and he and his wife and children were made denizens of England under royal warrant .
18 The Turkish government was to uphold religious liberty and equality ; the recognition of the governments of Serbia and Bulgaria was made conditional upon their doing the same .
19 1992 The extent of the rift between Charles and Diana is made plain to the world on their tour of India as she turns her face away and his attempted kiss turns into nothing but a grimace .
20 Companies such as Fuji and Mitsubishi are making progress in work on artificial retinas .
21 The summary document will need to be short , clear and concise if employers and others are to make use of it .
22 In that year Bevin became Chairman of the General Council of the TUC and Dalton was made Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party .
23 Rock 'n' Roll is making love to the Justice of the Peace 's daughter in the back of a stolen Chevy , drinking beer you bought on a fake ID , at a drive-in showing Vanishing Point or something .
24 While UTV is making inroads with its viewing figures in the South , the absence of cable TV in Northern Ireland , particularly in Belfast , is hampering RTE 's expansion there .
25 ‘ I want a team of aggressive players but I do n't want violent men in my team ’ , was the advice he gave to Gimbert and Moscato , who made their Five Nations debuts against Wales in Cardiff , while Simon was made captain of the students side .
26 While James was making preparations for his voyage the English rebels scored their first real success .
27 We will need to discover who is really being stopped from going ahead with legal action , or whether people are making choices between legal action or re-mortgaging their house , a holiday , a car or otherwise freeing money which is tied up . ’
28 Having passed the equivalent of the first MD examination , the universities could hardly turn her away , though places were made conditional on her waiting for her eighteenth birthday before going up .
29 Indeed , when Franco was made head of government in September 1936 , it was as much because all the other candidates had important flaws as in recognition of his merits .
30 When Peter was made curate in a northern suburb of Bristol , Anna celebrated the event by becoming pregnant .
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