Example sentences of "[be] make [noun] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We got a tremendous shock of course and I was extremely upset because the love of my life had nearly been made part of the road surface . |
| 2 | The upper part of his tomb had been made part of the perimeter by a grill of fine arches behind . |
| 3 | Three freemen : Three long-serving Middlesbrough councillors have been made freemen of the borough in a special ceremony at the town hall . |
| 4 | ‘ He looks as if he 'd been made King of the Harem . ’ |
| 5 | But Nuadu had returned ; he had been made whole by the Court Sorcerer , and he , also , had regained his Throne . |
| 6 | ‘ Actually I was really happy about that , not just because we 'd been made Singe Of The Week , but because it was a woman reviewing the singles — and they 're a lot harder to please . |
| 7 | Tough-talking Deryck Maughan ( above ) , the former British Treasury official who made Salomon Brothers the most profitable foreign brokerage in Tokyo , has been made vice-chairman at the firm 's New York HQ . |
| 8 | He had been made mayor by the Germans during the Occupation , and had in fact done his best for the villagers . |
| 9 | I think they 're probably making educated guesses are n't they whereas we 're making stabs in the dark . |
| 10 | We see this underfunding of eventide care as limiting the choice available to people who have come to that point in their lives when they 're making decisions about the sort of care that they will next require . |
| 11 | The next , you 're making speeches to the wind . |
| 12 | Exhaust fumes can be made cleaner by the installation of three-way catalytic converters which significantly reduce waste emissions ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 13 | FoE pollution campaigner Karen McVeigh says that such allowances should be made conditional on the bus operators including a requirement for low-sulphur diesel in their fuel specifications . |
| 14 | The Wilson Committee found the case unproven but the Labour Party and the trade union movement have since suggested that tax concessions available to pension funds should be made conditional upon the repatriation of some of their overseas investment . |
| 15 | In the Ministry of all the Talents his reward was to be made secretary to the Board of Control , 1806–7 . |
| 16 | Today 's crash has led to renewed calls from instructors for motorway skills to be made part of the driving test . |
| 17 | Video taped evidence , in which Mr Reagan admits he approved the covert Arms for Hostages operation , that became known as the Iran Contra affair , is to be made public by the trial judge . |
| 18 | But Senator Norris says it is ‘ a wonderful irony and absurd that an act of censorship should be made public in the library ’ . |
| 19 | The report , whose conclusions were due to be made public after the expiry of 21 days within which interested parties were required to submit their comments , was expected to confirm that the crash resulted from pilot error involving the inadvertent shutting down of the wrong engine . |
| 20 | THREE Middlesbrough councillors who between them have notched up a century of service to local people are to be made freemen of the borough today . |
| 21 | But if , if , I can make myself whole , or be made whole with the help of others , then it is my duty to submit to the pain , of healing , the lashes of contempt . |
| 22 | When the Haldanes challenged the Campbell influence in Stirling , they promised Deacon Ellise of the hammermen that he should be made smith of the Castle and that a member of the tailor 's trade should replace the castle storeman . |
| 23 | Although great power was vested in the philosophers who were to be the rulers , their personal self-interest was not to be a source of private gain but was to be made subservient to the state . |
| 24 | You will , by now , have had the experience of making at least two sleeves , so the pair for the handle ends of the lines can be made up' in the field' quite easily with just that wire needle and a box of matches to hand . |
| 25 | So far , with Worrell having turned down the chance , no one had been able to complain about the captaincy ; but by now Worrell had his degree , was very much available , and Alexander himself expected him to be made captain for the tour by England in 1959–60 . |
| 26 | It was a great honour to be made captain of the side and now all this . ’ |
| 27 | As well as being aesthetically pleasing , trees absorb carbon dioxide which is thought to be making holes in the ozone layer . |
| 28 | David Chadwick , prosecuting , said the Crown Prosecution Service would be making representations for the case to go to Crown Court . |
| 29 | Thus , the discount houses may be making losses on the loans they are repaying to the commercial banks . |
| 30 | In the Summer of 1958 the Home Secretary served notice to his Ministerial colleagues that he would be making demands on the Government 's expenditure programme to finance his plans for a wholesale prison rebuilding scheme . |