Example sentences of "[pers pn] be made [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was made of a strong enough fibre to cope with ideas to which she had already become accustomed , like murder and rape ; it was novelty that she found hard to accept . |
| 2 | They are made on a narrower last and in the interest of weight reduction , sacrifice all the midsole cushioning and stability features of a conventional trainer . |
| 3 | It has long been the view of central government that these forecasts are much more accurate if they are made at a local rather than at a national level ( Hammond , 1984 ) . |
| 4 | They are made from a semi-rigid porous material but bear no markings . |
| 5 | They are made by the official team representative and take the form of a written deposition to the Chief Referee of the day . |
| 6 | They 're made from a hardwearing cotton/polyester mix ( black and white T-shirts are all cotton ) and come in black , white or grey . |
| 7 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 8 | The same method of the die study is also useful in establishing mints , as die links between coins indicate that they were made at the same mint . |
| 9 | Subalterns posted to the Indian Army were expected to kill a tiger in order to prove that they were made of the right stuff . |
| 10 | Because they were made of the right kind of iron ? |
| 11 | They were made after a five month investigation codenamed Operation Hydra into the theft and use of credit cards throughout the south-east of England . |
| 12 | They were made by a small four-footed creature , almost certainly a lizard-like reptile , running across a beach . |
| 13 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 15 | Thirteen of them were made by the electrical process in 1930–31 , but three were acoustically produced ten years earlier . |
| 16 | Had it been made in the 1930s , Jimmy Stewart would have played Buck and Margaret Sullavan would have taken the Hoffman role , dying in the arms of the man she loves just as she reaches Miami . |
| 17 | Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties . |
| 18 | Erm it 's very well made we have a video , watching it being made from the bare |
| 19 | Now it 's the turn of the attack to show it 's made of the right stuff . |
| 20 | It 's very , very hard to fault this guitar ; it looks superb , it 's made to the highest possible standards and it also works a treat , combining near-total fingerboard access with a bright , responsive , almost classical sound . |
| 21 | After all , it 's made from a genuine fifty-year-old Italian family recipe . |
| 22 | It 's made from a hardwearing fabric and can be wiped clean from the trials and tribulations inflicted on it by the rough and tumble of everyday use . |
| 23 | ‘ At least it 's made in the genuine outdoor manner with the billy of water suspended from an iron bar over the flames . |
| 24 | It is uncertain whether the coffee plant manufactures this chemical for its own mysterious purpose , or whether it is made as an accidental byproduct of the roasting process ( the smell of coffee originates from the latter source ) . |
| 25 | Now it is certainly true that a complex whole necessarily contains relations of subordination and domination if the presence of principal and secondary contradictions within it is made into a defining characteristic . |
| 26 | Unlike stone , flint or ceramics , the raw material has to undergo drastic changes before it is made into the finished artefact . |
| 27 | It is made to the usual high Wolfcraft standards using thick steel for the bench table and a cast alloy housing for the disc . |
| 28 | It is also illegal for manufacturers to give their product a misleading name , or to claim that it is made of a particular ingredient which in fact makes up a very small proportion of the product . |
| 29 | However , the contract would still be void , because at common law a contract is void if it is made on a false assumption that its subject-matter is in existence . |
| 30 | It is made with the purest of polar waters , drawn from the post-glacial streams of the Arctic region . |