Example sentences of "[was/were] make [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The train sets were made up with the following types of coaches : |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | There were only half a dozen sergeants in the mess , but the numbers were made up by the civilian engineers who worked on the project . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Donaldson matter was petty and tiresome but much of office life was made up of the petty and tiresome . |
| 7 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 8 | Ashore the troops were commanded by Colonel John Durnford-Slater , the Commanding Officer of 3 Commando , who did most of the detailed planning for the raiding force which was made up from the entire 3 Commando , reinforced by two Troops from ‘ No.2 ’ with additional Royal Engineers from ‘ No.6 ’ , Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ) personnel from ‘ No.4 ’ , intelligence officers from the War Office , and a Press Unit . |
| 9 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 13 | A plea for employers to consider hiring disabled staff — and capitalising on the wide range of Government help to assist placements — was made yesterday by the Scottish industry minister , Allan Stewart . |