Example sentences of "[noun] [be] made [prep] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Notes are made on VIP guests , any tour groups , seminars or special events , and the diary is used to alert and remind the front office staff of the expected activity on that day .
2 Moreover , most surviving copies are made of marble , which does not perform as bronze .
3 Although , the rule of the clock affected most people in the sixteenth century far less than it does us today , it was already sufficient to provoke Brother Jean in the Gargantua ( 1535 ) of Rabelais to complain that ‘ the hours are made for man and not man for the hours ! ’
4 ‘ Did you know , ’ says Vic , ’ that ninety-six percent of the world 's microwave ovens are made in Japan , Taiwan or Korea ? ’
5 Denials of prejudice and racism are made by politicians on the New Right ( Gordon and Klug , 1986 ; see also , Schoen , 1977 , and Studlar , 1974 , for examples from Enoch Powell 's speeches ) .
6 Aluminium cans are made from bauxite dug up in tropical forests .
7 The majority are made of aluminium alloy which is lightweight but can bend .
8 Most groundsheets are made of nylon and are coated with either pvc or pu .
9 Attempts are made to route them into low-level manual work regardless of ability or level of motivation for further education , and discrimination in entry to training schemes acts as a further block to employment and careers ( Wrench , 1987 , 1990 ) .
10 Obviously where frequent attempts are made at reconciliation the cost accounts may be reasonably accurate .
11 The movements and dials are made in brass and come with a range of extras .
12 Patterns are made from drawings and are three dimensional representation usually in wood of the product .
13 All patterns are made in paper to try-cut the parts , and each seam is pre-stretched in turn as the shape is built up .
14 Pulsed sounds like clicks are used for echolocation and navigation ; yelps can be a feature of courtship ; and other pulsed calls are made during distress and aggressive confrontation .
15 Quick phone calls are made to sons and husbands who are planning to drive home .
16 This question is almost obsolete as far as the classroom is concerned , since almost all programmes are made in colour and you are likely to lose impact and sometimes visual information by viewing them in black and white .
17 ‘ A detailed appraisal is under way to ensure that any necessary improvements are made to procedures and that resources continue to be concentrated on areas of greatest need , ’ said Mr Curry .
18 As we have seen so far , the results from pattern recognition are far from perfect , and no matter what improvements are made to recognition , it is never going to reach 100% accuracy .
19 The red route option , which we introduced , has already shown that bus services improve when comparable improvements are made to traffic management .
20 The whistles are made from brass tubes and plates the pieces of which are silver-soldered in his home-based workshop near Llanberis .
21 / All their products are made on looms designed and built by their own engineers , and recognized as the most technically superior weaving plant in the World / .
22 The most enduring and widespread artefacts from the earliest times are made of flint , a hard rock which fractures to give sharp edges ideally suited for making knives , axeheads and arrowheads .
23 Four specific DNA base contacts are made by residues from the basic helix , as are a large number of phosphate contacts spanning the entire recognition sequence .
24 For breakthroughs in religion are made by individuals who make sense of the mystery of existence not in their minds but in their hearts .
25 Gross new issues of gilt-edged stock are made in order to finance ( i ) new borrowing needs of the government ; ( ii ) the redemption of maturing government stock ; and ( iii ) net payments in sterling made by the Bank of England to acquire foreign currency .
26 Some easels are made with mahogany , one of the most stable and durable woods available .
27 Some easels are made with mahogany , one of the most stable and durable woods available .
28 Up to now , we have considered the data-oriented aspects of data analysis , but functional considerations are made in order to check the model .
29 Cricket bats are made of willow , mallets of elm , polo balls of bamboo roots and loom shuttles of persimmon , a tree which grows in Persia .
30 And models of Noah 's ark must be among the most enduring of children 's toys , whether the animals are made of wood or plastic .
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