Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] make [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reference was made again to the judgment in Hector where Lord Bridge of Harwich said , at p. 318 : |
| 2 | Reference was made earlier to the mobilizing and reconciling styles of leadership . |
| 3 | A brief reference was made earlier to the subject of purchasing . |
| 4 | The boy was making straight for the stone , holding his stick up and making little darting glances all round him . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The announcement was made yesterday at the People 's Palace museum on Glasgow Green . |
| 7 | This point was made also in the reports of the mathematics and science working groups . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Donaldson matter was petty and tiresome but much of office life was made up of the petty and tiresome . |
| 16 | In 1913 a half of the total trade of the world was made up of the exports and imports of seven European countries which enjoyed the advantages of a highly developed science and technology , well-established basic industries , and access to capital for investment . |
| 17 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 18 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 19 | When a report was made just after the 1914–18 war , Nos. 1–8 , 11 , 12 , 15 , 23–26 and 35 were mounted on Peckham trucks , while 9 , 10 , 13 , 14 , 16–22 and 27–34 were on Brill trucks . |
| 20 | These orders for observation or treatment were made either on the recommendation of two medical practitioners or , in the case of an emergency order , on the initiative of a relative or friend or a mental welfare officer with the backing of only one doctor . |
| 21 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 22 | The electric light generating unit was made completely in the Works . |
| 23 | But they were the owners of the securities , and it was by their own mandate , which presumably they might have recalled , that payment was made directly to the beneficiary . |
| 24 | The grant was made specifically in the context of a projected campaign against Scotland and was designed to avoid damaging disputes over military authority by setting Gloucester firmly above the other northern peers . |
| 25 | The grant was made specifically in the context of a projected campaign against Scotland and was designed to avoid damaging disputes over military authority by setting Gloucester firmly above the other northern peers . |
| 26 | A major change was made however after the need for the Bank of England to rescue Johnson Matthey Bankers ( JMB ) , a recognised bank , such that the categorisation of licenced deposit takers and recognised banks was abolished and a single category of bank established for regulation . |
| 27 | Andrew of Bergamo says that " great slaughter was made especially among the nobles of the Aquitanians … |
| 28 | Farr-Jones ' final decision was made soon after the ‘ Yes ’ vote was overwhelmingly passed in South Africa by the white minority . |
| 29 | Therefore , comparisons of bowel function and transit time were made separately in the two age groups . |
| 30 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |