Example sentences of "make [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When someone has been asked to make over on death whatever remains of an inheritance , and from the price of objects sold buys other objects , he is not regarded as having diminished [ the estate ] in respect of the objects sold … but the objects thus bought should be made over in place of the ownership which has changed … . |
| 2 | The bright solar surface is made up of gas at reasonably high pressure , so that in a spectroscope it yields a rainbow . |
| 3 | The difference between operating profit and profit before tax is of course made up of interest on non-operating items . |
| 4 | Olympic I. Walton skipper Alan Chatfield 's 3–13–0 catch was made up of gudgeon from a peg near the salt works to beat Robin Tooth ( Team Uniprint ) with 3–5–4 of gudgeon . |
| 5 | This poem is generally agreed to be made up of material from different dates and there are considerable textual differences between manuscript versions . |
| 6 | Three-quarters of Green Form work is made up of advice on divorce and family matters and on criminal cases . |
| 7 | Much of the farming was fairly traditional but the premium received from quality products often made up for lack of weight in calves and lambs . |
| 8 | Tilda 's mind was made up in favour of the New World . |
| 9 | The US Secretary of State James Baker met subsequently with Shevardnadze and welcomed the proposed cuts at a joint press conference , although he had earlier expressed doubts as to whether the cuts were in fact new or were made up in part by other previously announced withdrawals . |
| 10 | In the late Eighties Jeremy Ridgway and David Bennett , Zimbabwe-born but living in London , produced the ‘ Cum ’ paintings which were made up in part from semen and shown in New York . |
| 11 | Jaffe believes that the spread of the disease may be connected with new preparations of factor VIII concentrate — the blood-clotting agent given to haemophiliacs — which are made up from blood from large numbers of donors , rather than one individual . |
| 12 | But , true to its timid traditions , the English crimi nal justice system still excludes these videos from court hearings be cause of the hearsay rule ; a rule which has never been definitively formulated but which crudely pre vents statements made out of court by a witness to someone else being admissible . |
| 13 | In these circumstances there is little visible money to be made out of feminism as such , although there are specific financial benefits to be gained by institutions from the identification of women as a deprived minority . |
| 14 | The profits to be made out of wine in the first half of the century encouraged substantial farmers to let out their outlying fields , landowners and municipalities their hitherto unproductive wastes , on rabassa morta — a lease of land based on the life of the vine and intended to bring bad land into cultivation . |
| 15 | They can bury themselves in mud during droughts and live in a cocoon made out of mucus from their skin . |
| 16 | It is not clear why any of the clergy should be disqualified ( as opposed to restrained by their own professional ethics ) at all , except that in the case of the Church of England some sort of case can then be made out by reason of the right of bishops to sit in the House of Lords . |
| 17 | I believe that a formidable case can be made out in support of Lord Simon 's conviction that ‘ the concept of ‘ crime of basic intent ’ is a useful tool of analysis ’ . |
| 18 | Thieves made off with property worth £5,760 from a Scarborough flat . |
| 19 | No amount of brilliance can make up for knowledge of the idiom of the field . |
| 20 | But nothing will ever make up for Amar for the total loss of mother , father , entire family , house and everything . |
| 21 | No no , amenity-wise , you 're okay , but I mean amenities does n't make up for sort of living standards you 've got , does it ? |
| 22 | Apart from Perdita , the Rutshire team for the Jack Gannon Cup consisted of Justin and Patrick Lombard , farmer 's sons who 'd spent their lives in the saddle and who made up for lack of finesse with dogged determination , and David Waterlane 's son , Mike , now nearly twenty-one , who played like an angel when his father was n't on the sideline bellowing at him . |
| 23 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 24 | It was an unsatisfactory relationship , but their meetings made up for infrequency by their intensity . |
| 25 | Excavations have been largely confined to the western side , revealing an earth rampart made up of material from at least one contemporary ditch to the west . |
| 26 | Though Mrs Poole , gentle-natured and tolerant , made up in part for her disagreeable husband , most who visited the Castle Street house were attracted there by neither of the elder Pooles , but by their son , another Thomas . |
| 27 | The soufflé made up in ambition for what it lacked in accomplishment , but the wine was good . |
| 28 | Although Stennis lacks the scope and sheer number of routes to be found at nearby St Govan 's Head , its climbs certainly make up in quality for any lack of quantity . |
| 29 | They make up in quality for their comparatively small area . |
| 30 | A LEGACY MADE OUT IN FAVOUR OF A CHARITY COULD WELL BE THE ANSWER . |