Example sentences of "[noun sg] make [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Does dismissal of God 's existence make for greater openness and enquiry , or does it have the effect of closing the door on trying to understand what is strange or threatening to itself which might be , for example , the claims of other religions ? |
| 2 | Provision made by other agencies , Guide Post Trusts , for example , MENCAP Homes and so on and so forth . |
| 3 | A rare exception to this unrelieved diet of excellence came recently in the shape of a programme made by unemployed men on Teesside about the place in their life of the municipal golf-course . |
| 4 | Regulations and Approved Codes of Practice made under those statutes . |
| 5 | Its special ingredient is a new fat alternative made from natural ingredients , called Simplesse . |
| 6 | Likewise , French silk underwear may be underwear made of French silk ( ( French silk ) underwear ) or French underwear made of silk ( French ( silk underwear ) ) . |
| 7 | Preferably wear a skirt or culottes with loose underwear made from natural fibres or better still no underwear at all . |
| 8 | The return of the portfolio is a weighted average of the constituent security returns , the weights used being the proportions of the total investment made in each security : . |
| 9 | A capacitor made of concentric cylinders has an inner radius a , outer radius b , and length l. it is filled with a dielectric of relative permittivity |
| 10 | Sir Arthur Evans long ago recorded a Sumerian cylinder seal made from this material from a deposit sealed by a Middle Minoan IIIA layer at Knossos . |
| 11 | This is the garden as theatre , where reclining tritons , Greek warriors and winged horses are transfixed in mid-whinny , where a tower ( out of Thomas Gray by Caspar David Friedrich ) rises inexplicably from a wooded declivity , where there is a sudden outbreak of brilliant Japanesery and an 18th-century grotto made from petrified sphagnum moss . |
| 12 | Shareholders will know that any subsequent bid made within three months ( or such longer period as the Panel may require in order to ensure equality of treatment for all shareholders ) may not be made on less favourable terms than the tender offer because of Rule 6.1 ( see para 7.2.3 below ) and , because the buyer will ( usually ) have acquired 10 per cent of the target 's voting rights for cash , any bid within the next 12 months must be for cash ( or include a cash alternative ) at the highest price paid by the bidder ( whether under the tender offer or in respect of market purchases ) during the 12-month period in accordance with Rule 11 ( see para 7.2.2 below ) . |
| 13 | flowers , ( fresh and dried ) , fruit , leaves ( fresh and dried ) , bark and root , for emetics ; a tea made with equal parts of peppermint leaf , yarrow and elder flowers plus boiling water is one of the finest cures available for colds , coughs and catarrh ; of value for rheumatism , sciatica , and cystitis |
| 14 | Two Britons tunnelled to freedom under the horse made from Red Cross food crates by Wing Commander Roger Maw , of Walesby , Lincs . |
| 15 | A hundred years ago people brushed with toothpaste made from burnt eggshells or crumbled porcelain . |
| 16 | They are then retained on the sail by tape made into double thickness tags . |
| 17 | ‘ There are at least three separate periods of building , ’ the Doctor said , ‘ and the oldest-looking , all the monumental masonry made of weathered stone , is the most recent . ’ |
| 18 | This is confirmed by the fact that there are very few serious statements about aid made by senior Africans on behalf of their country , or their region . |
| 19 | Some sacks will also have an extension at the top of the main compartment made from lighter fabric which is known as a snow lock . |
| 20 | They suggested : ‘ Hence the recommendation made in several countries to give breast-fed infants fluoride supplements should be reconsidered . ’ |
| 21 | A search made of this path , however , produced very little . |
| 22 | Cellulose insulation made of recycled newspapers is used . |
| 23 | Beside it was a modest , two-storeyed house , its roof made of yellowing thatch , the windows nothing more than wooden shutters . |
| 24 | But nobody could get the movie made at that time , and the question now was whether Val was n't too old for the part . |
| 25 | Long ago , he had found Simon a Hindu rattle made of chased silver with an ivory handle shaped for a child to hold . |
| 26 | The Disarmers ' efforts were the only serious attempt made by ordinary citizens to influence policy on this matter of their own life and death . |
| 27 | However , it was probably the most serious attempt made in colonial Africa to adapt the traditional bush/fallow system to changing economic circumstances and , if sustained , might have provided technical answers to problems which still prove elusive . |
| 28 | For serious drinkers there is the production of cognac to investigate around Cognac , plus the chance to sample pineau , the powerful local aperitif made from young wine laced with cognac . |
| 29 | Rover is concentrating all its car making on one site at Cowley and a business park will replace the assembly plant responsible for such famous models as the Morris Eight , the Morris Minor and the Maestro . |
| 30 | It studied a big selection of firms from a single industry — machine-tool making in western Germany — in an attempt to discover what makes the sheep sheep , and goats goats . |