Example sentences of "[be] made [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His head was full of sentences he was going to write to Hilary when he had the time to put pen to paper : I may remind you that I never asked you for a penny towards the summer gas bill … do you think I am made of stone ? … surely I deserve better consideration … who listened for hours when you had that disagreement at Bromley over Fortescue upstaging you in She Stoops to Conquer … have you forgotten that it was I , when your mother had her second stroke , who travelled with her in the ambulance and went back on the bus to collect her plaster replica of the Sacred Heart ? |
| 2 | ‘ I know that a lot of people think I am made of steel . |
| 3 | The Indian bow — the kaman-i Hindavi-is made of cane . |
| 4 | Sources close to the meeting of G7 senior government ministers , who had invited the deputy prime minister , Boris Fyodorov , as a last-minute guest , said they had laid the groundwork for fresh aid but no promises had been made over cash . |
| 5 | No film has yet been made about LSD . |
| 6 | Though solidly on record as a pro-choice champion , the President recently said that a decision has n't been made about abortion services . |
| 7 | A party receiving a payment which should have been made into court shall forthwith notify the proper officer in writing and pay the money received into court ( Ord 11 , r 1A ) . |
| 8 | Held , allowing the appeal , that where a driver was required to provide a specimen of blood or urine for one of the reasons set out in section 7(3) of the Act of 1988 , or claimed the right to provide such a specimen under section 8(2) , the constable was required by section 7(4) to inform him that the specimen was to be of blood or urine and that it was for the constable to decide which ; but that there was no requirement to invite the driver to express his preference for giving blood or urine ; that if the constable intended to require a specimen of blood , the driver was to be given the right to object on medical grounds to be determined by a medical practitioner or , if the requirement had been made under section 7(3) , for some other reason affording a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ within section 7(6) of the Act ; and that , accordingly , the requirement for the defendant to provide a specimen of blood had complied with section 7(4) ( post , pp. 885G–H , 890D–G , 891A–D , 895B–E , H — 896A ) . |
| 9 | But the perambulating jury dismissed these proceedings as having been made under duress of Hugh Despenser , then Edward I 's Justice of the Forest . |
| 10 | I turn now to consider the arguments advanced on behalf of Woolwich in support of its right to recover the payments it made as money had and received or as having been made under duress , two grounds which it was accepted shaded into one another . |
| 11 | The army action was severely criticized by Joseph Kokou Koffigoh , the transitional Prime Minister , who declared that Kpodzro 's decision was invalid since it had been made under duress and had not been subject to a regular vote in the HCR . |
| 12 | This announcement had been made at a council of the ROC , but was retracted in Kiev on April 14 on the grounds that it had been made under pressure . |
| 13 | If a judgment has been obtained without the appointment of a guardian ad litem ( save where an order has been made under Ord 10 , r 8(1) see above ) the judgment may be set aside by the court under Ord 37 , r 5 . |
| 14 | The other stream is based on the notion that such payments have been made under compulsion , the relative positions and powers of the two parties being unequal . |
| 15 | They then made their agreement , which can truly I think be said to have been made under compulsion , by the telex of June 28 , without prejudice to their rights . |
| 16 | Minor changes had been made following criticism by Archbishop Mario Conti , that some of the language was difficult . |
| 17 | They suspect that many third-party accident claims have been made through branch offices of the firm for phantom vehicles that never existed . |
| 18 | Encouragement has been made through tax incentives , so that pension savings are now one of the most tax effective investments available . |
| 19 | The woman 's sixth sense , or whatever radar she operated by , had homed straight in and the deal had been made without hassle . |
| 20 | That equitable doctrine , however , could hardly apply in the present case because the variation here might be said to have been made without consideration . |
| 21 | But no steps were to be taken to put them into effect until they had been communicated to the king , who , when he had satisfied himself that they had been made without prejudice , would decide what was to be done . |
| 22 | Our producing operations were enhanced in 1992 with first production from the Panuke field , offshore Nova Scotia , Canada and substantial progress has been made towards development of the Kadanwari gas field in Pakistan with gas sales contracts signed in February 1993 . |
| 23 | ‘ Steady progress has been made towards achievement of the Government 's inflation objective . |
| 24 | Its 11 November issue appropriately included features on what progress had been made towards war in space , following this with the other end of technology — all the facts on animal power — which proved that running horse transport could be cheaper than vans or lorries , though not mentioning that animal exhausts can be put to good use as well . |
| 25 | It can be seen that by piecemeal legislation great strides have been made towards equality between the sexes as regards legal status , rights and liabilities . |
| 26 | The extent to which these have been achieved varies from authority to authority but , in some , considerable progress has been made towards integration . |
| 27 | Angelo Heilprin , an American geologist who visited the scene a few weeks later and wrote a book about the tragedy , described ‘ twisted bars of iron , great masses of roof sheeting wrapped like cloth about posts upon which they had been flung , and iron girders looped and festooned as if they had been made of rope ’ . |
| 28 | I was out of my element , and the air itself could have been made of gold for all the use it was to me . |
| 29 | ‘ How did I get here ? ’ she asked , looking around a shabby but pleasant room , feeling so frail that she might have been made of china , china broken into a thousand pieces . |
| 30 | Mention has been made of M. Spencer Ell the auditor , who gave generously of his services and bequeathed the Club a substantial legacy . |