Example sentences of "[noun pl] make [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Composed variously of opus sectile ( marbles in a variety of geometric shapes ) , opus alexendrinum ( large slabs of precious oriental marbles ) and opus tessellatum ( pictorial designs made from tesserae , like mosaic ) , over the centuries the pavement has buckled into a surface far from level and has suffered from atmospheric pollution as well as wear and tear of daily use . |
| 2 | From Australia , former Woodworker editor , Peter Collenette sends a report on the Tasmanian furniture-maker , Alan Livermore , who is one of the few designer-makers to have his designs made in factories and in his own workshop . |
| 3 | Much analysis of public transport use has been based simply on estimating the number of single ( one-way ) trips made by passengers . |
| 4 | In some cases , however , the exigencies of timetabling for examinations and the demands made on students by applications for courses of further study can reduce the effective time available to the one-year foundation courses to as little as twenty or twenty-four weeks . |
| 5 | Mr MacGregor said that he would delay introducing the scheme because of the demands made on teachers by other educational reforms . |
| 6 | Increasing and conflicting demands made on funds for NHS use tends to focus media interest on the service 's shortcomings rather than its strengths . |
| 7 | There are conflicting demands made on schools and good marketing is n't about taking up every , or any half-baked , idea in the pursuit of popularism . |
| 8 | all assessments for a unit/module are comparable in terms of the demands made on candidates ; |
| 9 | Equally unrealistic are the demands made by syllabuses on teachers . |
| 10 | The demands made by terminals on channels and lines are very unlikely to exceed their capacity . |
| 11 | This is particularly important in a field where many of the demands made by users are highly specialized in nature . |
| 12 | We will look first at the words made with affixes ; these will be called affix words . |
| 13 | And the imaginative touch extends to containers … you 'll find flowers stuffed into hiking boots , shopping baskets … and Tricia 's own invention … lollipops made from lampshades on posts . |
| 14 | Given that there does not seem to be the same reluctance to imbibe proteins made from plants as there is to be using the proteins in the milk of Dr Ron James ' transgenic sheep or Scotgen 's ‘ humanised ’ mouse antibodies , there may be a good case for a local entrepreneur to transfer an Amazonian shaman 's technology to make a Scottish national wonder drug . |
| 15 | In the past , testing was directed at proteins made by cells or at the structures of cells . |
| 16 | International custom , which includes the actual practice of states and unilateral declarations made by states , is a source of prime importance , and is by no means barren so far as nuclear questions are concerned . |
| 17 | These include multi-cultural issues and issues related to early study skills , books made with children , reference materials and early specialist language and involving parents in the teaching of literacy . |
| 18 | Since J. C. Wells 's research on the phonological adaptations made by Jamaicans who had lived for a period in London ( Wells 1973 ) , there have been only a few detailed studies of the language of Caribbeans in Britain in spite of a good deal of interest in all aspects of Britain 's black population . |
| 19 | No doubt the material culture of the Russians was more highly developed than that of most Siberian peoples , in so far as they built log houses with wooden floors , windows and stoves ; wore clothing made of textiles woven from linen , hemp or wool ; used steam-baths ; were able to shoot game ( and people ) more efficiently with bullets than with arrows ; used vessels made of ceramics or metal ; provided themselves with grain and vegetables where natural conditions permitted , and so on . |
| 20 | An intuition that this is indeed so may be very difficult to substantiate if the attributions made by members of the dominant society are very loud and very visible , and those of the members of the microsociety hard to come by , perhaps because those members are not easy to contact . |
| 21 | The authors explore the idea that causal attributions made by survivors about their experience are an important mediating variable . |
| 22 | The bullock carts were empty , the oxen eating from huge shallow dishes raised up from the ground on stands made of branches . |
| 23 | Unemployment benefit would be reduced , and savings made on pensions and housing support . |
| 24 | The limited steps made by women towards more equal treatment in the provision of state earnings-related pensions were therefore reversed by the 1986 Act . |
| 25 | The cinnabar-covered skeleton ( simulating blood ) found at the bottom of a forty foot man-made shaft was wearing a gold death mask with eyes made of emeralds and large silver ear decorations , still covered by hundreds of thousands of turquoise , crystal , lapis lazuli and seashell beads . |
| 26 | Hit by relentless price competition and slumping business conditions , Fujitsu Ltd on Friday forecast that for fiscal 1993 to March 31 , it would report its first loss since it was first listed in Tokyo in 1949 : it sees a group net loss of $322m and a current loss of $169m for the year , against net profit of $103m and current profit of $437m last fiscal — current profit includes gains and losses made on investments in stocks and bonds and sundry profits and losses from other non-operating activities ; ‘ Customers expect lower prices , ’ said Mike Beirne , a Fujitsu spokesman — ‘ the price competition goes from the price war in personal computers right up to mainframes ; ’ the company acknowledges that losses are likely to continue into the first six months of its new year . |
| 27 | And everywhere the sun streamed or lay in golden pools or rainbow spots or squares made by windows patterned with the shadows of leaves . |
| 28 | Wang will meantime focus on its big service business and developing selling software an will sell computers made by others , including IBM . |
| 29 | Even the strenuous attempts made by historians over two decades to make their subject more relevant to the needs of late twentieth-century Britain seemed to be overshadowed by the debate over empathy . |
| 30 | Such planned progression was a feature of many of the proposals made by centres ; the scale of this is shown in Table 2 . |