Example sentences of "[be] make of the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 I am sure you are as appalled as I am at the use that has been made of the private letter of a schoolboy to his parents , but it is certainly a lesson for you in the ways of the world . ’
2 Much has been made of the traumatic aspect of being born , yet infants of all species have been born since bearing began and it would be surprising if natural processes did not allow for the experience .
3 Still it suggests that some profit might even have been made of the Tilberthwaite work .
4 Mention has already been made of the many Home Corners with more than one ‘ room ’ .
5 Much has been made of the disciplinary power of the market for managerial services .
6 As has already been mentioned , insider traders also face the possibility of conviction under the US mail and wire fraud statutes in so far as they participate in a ‘ scheme … to defraud ’ ( ie breach of s.10b and Rule 10b-5 ) where use has been made of the postal system or telephonic communication .
7 To ask the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland what assessment has been made of the adverse effect on maintaining and upgrading hospitals of the amount being spent in preparing hospital trusts .
8 Mention has already been made of the eight-petalled rosette , and its appearance in at least two of the small , tangent squares in North Hill , mosaic B ; but this can hardly be considered an important association .
9 Since that study , increasing use has been made of the task-centred approach , which targets seven problem areas in which change is possible :
10 But why I am pleased that this has been , that the amendment has been accepted is because of the words and that projection 's been made of the eventual revenue requirements to enable proper future provision to be budgeted for .
11 Mention has already been made of the inexorable movement of the 1960s ‘ baby boom ’ through schooling age during the 1970s to entry into higher education and the labour force in the 1980s .
12 Genes are made of the nucleic acid DNA , and they exert their effect by determining which proteins are made in the cell .
13 Specific rates of the demand for HE from individuals with particular characteristics — these typically include age , gender and social class — are calculated and then forecasts are made of the future demand from individuals with these characteristics .
14 Linings Most lightweight sleeping bags are made of the same shell material inside and out .
15 All elements are made of the same stuff — positively charged nuclei containing protons and encircled by negatively charged electrons .
16 IAN McCANN cruises the mean streets of Kingston to find out what a crap fist they 're making of the great man 's legacy , and to talk to some of those who helped make him the Third World 's finest musical ambassador .
17 Meanwhile , the very best must be made of the existing stem by providing new secondary modern schools and adding grammar-school streams to those which already exist , by encouraging late transfers , by improving standards in the State sector , and raising to sixteen the school-leaving age .
18 While supporting the general thrust of the strategy and its emphasis on the importance of transport to the regeneration of the regions , the CIT 's response also comments on the absence to date of an effective structure that could apply any available EC funding and carry a regional strategy forward , as well as on the need both for considerable investment in public transport and for the best use to be made of the existing transport infrastructure in serving proposed strategic development sites .
19 Sarah Hare , the youngest daughter of Sir Thomas and Lady Elizabeth Hare of Stow Bardolph , Norfolk , was very specific regarding the simplicity of her grave-clothes and coffin , making her wishes abundantly clear in her will of 1743 : ‘ … my coffin to be made of the best Elm lin 'd with a thinn lead with a flap of lead sawder 'd down over me , not to have a nail or any ornament that is not absolutely necessary , except a plate with my coat of arms and with this inscription : They that humble themselves shall be Exalted . ’
20 He might drive for Italians , but he could n't be made of the right stuff .
21 Keeping your head above water is half the secret in sport and young Karen Rake seems to be made of the right stuff .
22 In fastening the strips together to construct any model , choice has to be made of the correct size of nut and bolt involving both sorting , matching and then screwing .
23 Before the new holes were commissioned the best had to be made of the shortened course , such as the 2nd also playing as the 17th .
24 All enquiries , whether ad hoc or by standard program , can be made of the accumulated file of past students just as easily as of the file of current students .
25 In addition use will be made of the 1981 Census Small Area Statistics and data from the National On-Line Manpower Information System to construct neighbourhood demographic and socio-economic variables to enable a richer analysis of the national surveys to be undertaken .
26 This allowed an evaluation to be made of the possible effect pre-entry study on performance .
27 The use that will be made of the online information retrieval systems depends in part on the education of users about the availability and functioning of this method of information retrieval .
28 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 .
29 It should permit an appraisal to be made of the relative impact of aggregate demand and the supply side on output and employment in the British economy .
30 Mention should also be made of the French theologian Auguste Sabatier ( 1839–1901 ) , through whom the movement also made some impact on the French Roman Catholic Modernists , notably A. F. Loisy ( 1857–1940 ) .
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