Example sentences of "made [adv] [prep] [art] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Hampstead had been purchased with the now substantial royalties from Paul 's books , also the first excursion Dinah had made on to the stage since her marriage and the birth of three children .
2 A small charge is made locally for the use of the showers .
3 These were made discreetly with the aid of a telephoto lens and with the full co-operation of the club .
4 One difficulty with testing recognition memory is that inferences might be made only at the time of the recognition test .
5 Thieblot and Haggard emphasise that these observations are made only on the basis of ‘ preliminary analysis ’ and do not offer any empirical validation .
6 According to the official version of events , interceptions were made only on the authority of a warrant issued by the appropriate Secretary of State under his own hand .
7 A decision is made only on the balance of probabilities .
8 The climb was so steep that in places it could be made only with the help of ropes .
9 These terminological changes are not made merely for the sake of variety but because I believe the substitute terms convey their meaning more pointedly than Marx 's originals .
10 In relation to the timetable of events included in the agreement , time will not be of the essence but ( in accordance with the general law ) may be made so through the service of notice providing a reasonable extension of time .
11 Salary payments under the terms of this scheme will be made entirely at the discretion of the Company .
12 ‘ Are you trying to tell me , ’ Richmann began dangerously , ‘ that these changes in plan have been made just on the basis of your superstitious intuition that the newest arrivals on the island are somehow dangerous ? ’
13 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 ’ .
14 The last code of canon law , still nominally in force , was made just after the death of Queen Elizabeth I Tudor .
15 The assignments in polymer mechanics have been made largely as a result of experimental work with chemical analogues of the polymer under study — for example for polystyrene by the use of substitutions one the position of the ( glass-rubber ) and other transitions is observed , and some , largely qualitative , rules laid down .
16 Once all this was achieved , a general advance was to be made eastward in the direction of Cambrai .
17 Nothing in 7.6 precludes an application being made directly to the judge in a proper case ( r 7.6(4) ) .
18 The price for this remarkable meal , including all wines and canapes , is £30 and booking should be made directly to the restaurant at Castlehill , Edinburgh .
19 A FRESH move towards the privatisation of ScotRail was made yesterday with the creation of a Glasgow-based management post to prepare for the establishment of Railtrack , the state company which will take over railway infrastructure next year .
20 A CALL for Christians to join Muslims in hunting down and killing the novelist Salman Rushdie was made yesterday by the speaker of Iran 's parliament , Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri .
21 A CALL for Christians to join Muslims in hunting down and killing the novelist Salman Rushdie was made yesterday by the speaker of Iran 's parliament , Ali Akbar Nateq-Nouri .
22 It should be noted that counts of breeding pairs of this species must be made early in the year to be accurate .
23 Many erroneous assumptions are made both about the nature of cancer in older people and the response to treatment .
24 My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or electrical impulses . ’
25 My face seemed to be made up of a mass of needles or spikes or electrical impulses .
26 Each spreadsheet page is made up of a grid of columns and rows .
27 The Situationist Scrapbook includes only two synoptical essays , the rest being made up of a selection of documents produced in various parts of Europe and Britain from the fifties to the eighties , some of which predate the founding of the Situationist International ( henceforth the ‘ SI' ) .
28 Interactionists would question that implication , and argue that they are made up of a plurality of values and norms , which may often conflict .
29 Cell walls are made up of a variety of substances of which only one , cellulose , is truly fibrous in the sense of being filamentous or threadlike .
30 A legal system is not a monolith , but is made up of a variety of legal ‘ arenas ’ in which many different ‘ legal languages ’ are spoken , and while some of these arenas may well be prepared to listen to the presentation of a problem in one jurisprudential language , others might reject it completely ( Ladeur , 1984 ; Sciolla , 1983 ; Dunsire , 1978 ) .
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