Example sentences of "[was/were] make [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since both the Victoria and the Caledonian Press explicitly claimed to be offering work to women who really needed it , and who might never marry , arguments about the appropriateness of married women working were not particularly relevant , but they were made just the same : woman should be " man 's helpmeet not his rival " |
| 2 | While his crimes , he said , were not the ‘ worst form of indecent assault ’ they were made all the more serious because of his position . |
| 3 | So either you say there 's no general will or there is something like a general will , but it is not easily recognizable and for either reason you would want to be much more tolerant of the role minorities , either as a way of getting to the truth , or erm as a way of as it were making up the truth as you 're going along . |
| 4 | It was the random collisions melding the rocky substances , plus turbulent accretions , that were to make up the inner planets . |
| 5 | Furthermore , a settlement arrangement was made whereby the creditor countries could exchange on a monthly basis their accumulations of the weaker currencies ( which they had been buying in the EC exchange markets ) for some other form of reserve asset . |
| 6 | On Poland , an arrangement was made whereby the Communists would form a joint administration with elements of the London government-in-exile , but this did not prevent the country 's long-term domination by Moscow . |
| 7 | Marital work was accepted by these parents in an effort to solve the problem , and progress was made once the father finally admitted that he had been told at work that he was too domineering and was unable to delegate responsibility to his juniors . |
| 8 | Couples 's task was made all the easier by a sad collapse of Craig Parry , who had led after three rounds but flinched , it seemed , from the prospect of becoming the first Australian to win the Masters . |
| 9 | It was a very sunny day and it was made all the more complete by Albert being on duty on the return journey . |
| 10 | Arsenal 's lack of genuine quality in midfield was made all the more painful by a fine display by David Rocastle . |
| 11 | The trip was made all the worse by Frankie 's morbid fear of flying . |
| 12 | An SVR4-on-Alpha plan has been in the works for as long as a year ( UX No 386 ) and was made all the more likely when Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA announced it would implement SVR4 on the high-end Alpha AXP systems it is to market . |
| 13 | The incident was made all the more galling by the fact that neither climber had broken an axe of crampon in 27 years of combined mountaineering experience ! |
| 14 | However , the task of a new nanny was made all the more difficult because the children , bewildered and unhappy , felt that they had come to take the place of their mother . |
| 15 | It was made all the more intense because it was directed inwards . |
| 16 | It was made all the more infuriating by the fact that she had dressed with more than usual care , splashing out far more than she could afford on a red silk jersey creation from an expensive boutique . |
| 17 | Owen 's reaction touched him on a sore spot ; and it was made all the sorer by an angry feeling inside him that there had indeed been incompetence , Egyptian incompetence , that he , Mahmoud , was ultimately responsible for it — and that there was absolutely nothing that he could in practice do about it . |
| 18 | His job was made all the more easier by drivers who had n't bothered to take measures to stop people like him . |
| 19 | With eights and nines off his card , he was making mostly the same numbers as everyone else , just in a different way and order . |
| 20 | and I 'm not entirely sure , Marcus did phone me and say , at one point , when he was making up the mailing list , he 's had three hundred copies of that made of the extract and he was kind of you know , sniffing around for who to send them |
| 21 | He was making out the folder for the new case , meticulously transferring details from the police form to the file . |
| 22 | Radio Bangladesh quoted an official spokesman as saying on Aug. 10 that the independent Mecca-based Islamic body , Rabitah , had agreed to fund half the estimated US$50,000,000 cost of repatriation and rehousing , and Pakistan was to make up the rest . |