Example sentences of "make [noun] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We note with approval the Management Group decision to speedily make copies of the non-confidential parts of their Minutes accessible to staff through deposit in the Library and the specialist gardens . |
| 2 | and made maps of the silenced mineworkings . |
| 3 | You can isolate a section of the design and repeat it within the grid area , or make repeats of the whole design . |
| 4 | It 's not something that I can deal with in these orders er I 'm afraid that er there was a decision within the community which was then er made part of the nineteen seventy six E C direct elections act . |
| 5 | In view of the fact that Miliutin was made chairman of the new local government commission the prospects for a generous solution looked good , but the commission made little progress in the first year of its life . |
| 6 | At 39 he was made chairman of the Conservative Party by Sir Alec Douglas-Home , but was never in favour during the Heath years . |
| 7 | In that year Bevin became Chairman of the General Council of the TUC and Dalton was made Chairman of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party . |
| 8 | Mackenzie Walcott lamented ‘ it is almost inconceivable the waste that has mercilessly made havoc of the ancient Memorials that gave renown to Stamford ’ . |
| 9 | Donald Maclean had in 1950 been made head of the American department of the Foreign Office after dramatic breakdowns and drinking bouts . |
| 10 | Maclean , a Cambridge contemporary of Burgess , fellow Apostle , and fellow communist , had recently been made head of the American department at the Foreign Office . |
| 11 | None the less , such a mass of available material has made nonsense of the old dream that historical judgment might , in principle , be preceded by a complete survey of every available piece of evidence . |
| 12 | ‘ Open ’ villages where landownership was ‘ much divided ’ were receptive to Dissent and so were large parishes where population growth in the outlying parts had made nonsense of the old ecclesiastical arrangements . |
| 13 | Would have made matchsticks of the private car . |
| 14 | His effectiveness in this , his finest hour , was admired as his arrogance and conflict of interest were deplored , and he was made governor of the new colony of British Columbia on condition he leave the company . |
| 15 | It is difficult to infer from this passage that Strabo trusted Timagenes about the Cells and never made use of the original text of Posidonius — who had been directly or indirectly his own teacher . |
| 16 | The insensitive reviewer had invented and made use of the horrible word ‘ Bowenoid ’ for the stories collected in The Blush — he found them penetrating and subtle but could not forgive Elizabeth for her good fortune in being able to please the simple as well as the highbrow reader . |
| 17 | Find-spots rather favour the arrangement in fig. 124 , but the characterisation seems to fit better if they are made partners of the other men . |
| 18 | In future , those who would have received it will be made Members of the British Empire , seen as a ‘ white-collar award ’ |
| 19 | Established constitutional theory has made sense of the British constitution and British politics in the following way . |
| 20 | Devotion to the throne also manifested itself in a popular demand for the king 's third son , William Augustus , Duke of Cumberland , to be made Commander-in-Chief of the anti-invasion forces . |
| 21 | Congratulations to Miss Kay Evans MBE , ex-President and Vice-President of the Society and Miss Eileen Alexander OBE , also one of our Vice-Presidents , on being made Fellows of the Physical Education Association for their distinguished contribution to the work of the Association and in the physical education and movement field . |
| 22 | A certificate to this effect from the person representing the petitioning creditor in the following form is normally acceptable : I certify that I have/my firm has made enquiries of the petitioning creditors(s) within the last business day prior to the hearing/adjourned hearing and to the best of my knowledge and belief the debt on which the petition is founded is still due and owing and has not been paid or secured or compounded for ( save as to … |
| 23 | The next month — 15 May he was replaced in command by General Henri Pétain , the hero of Verdun ; at the same time , General Ferdinand Foch was made chief of the French General Staff . |
| 24 | Gough was subsequently made commander of the Fifth Army , and Malcolm was his chief of staff . |
| 25 | But the general response of voters made nonsense of the Christian Democrats ' appeal for support for strong government . |
| 26 | They even attacked art — especially ‘ modern art ’ — but while they made fun of the pre-War Cubists , Expressionists and futurists , they borrowed and transformed many of the principles and techniques of these earlier movements . ’ |
| 27 | She urged others to ‘ spend some of their tyme in Journeys to visit their native Land , and be curious to inform themselves and make observations of the pleasant prospects , good buildings , different produces and manufactures of each place ’ . |
| 28 | Still , we make fun of the titanic , we look back at the romans-christians thing with a sense of romance … why not the munich ‘ disaster ’ . |
| 29 | He often struck me as the kind of wide boy one found in England right after the war , people who made deals of the spivvier sort and did n't care who went down as long as they went up . |
| 30 | BGS 's geomagnetic observatories record variations in the earth 's magnetic field and make forecasts of the likely onset of significant disturbances . |