Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] make [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snell has suggested that this sense of right was sufficiently marked to make expectations from the Poor Law part of the " moral economy " which Edward Thompson has applied to the poor 's expectation that corn would be sold to them at " just " prices . |
| 2 | Duckworth recounted how in Palestine he had met a scribe whose craftsmanship had weakened with age and so was only permitted to make copies of the ‘ writings ’ a part of the O.T . |
| 3 | The club closed in the late Sixties and was later demolished to make way for the shopping centre Eldon Gardens . |
| 4 | I was able to visit her several times and then , in my capacity as literary editor of New Hungarian Quarterly , I was often sent to make contact with poets in America and so on . |
| 5 | During the Second World War the Germans used coal gasification to make syn-gas which was then used to make oil in a process developed by two chemists named Fischer and Tropsch . |
| 6 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 7 | The Crowther committee was set up to consider the education of boys and girls between the ages of 15 and 18 , and it was specifically asked to make recommendations about the place therein of exams below GCE level . |
| 8 | The ILP was in decline and the Communist Party " was seriously attempting to make amends for its previous abuse of the rest of the labour movement . |