Example sentences of "make [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the top of the hill Ossian still had the lead , and he kept in front as the runners made down to the final bend , though Pistol Packer and Caro were improving their positions . |
| 2 | On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium . |
| 3 | In Thackeray 's Pendennis ( 1848–50 ) , for example , Lady Clavering , whose London house has been made over to the interior decorators , is put out of countenance by the result . |
| 4 | That the number of town dwellers grew and that such a large proportion of output could be made over to the ruling class without permanent and chronic nationwide famine or substantial evidence of huge tax arrears suggest that peasants continued to produce well above subsistence level . |
| 5 | The mother was an unmarried girl by the name of Mercy Barnett , a whatever'sstreet trader 's daughter , ill used by a seaman who had made off to the other side of the world rather than face up to his responsibilities . |
| 6 | Consistent with the purpose of the paper , one third of a typical number is made up of the perennial feature " Around the Country " , with reports from the branches about their activities and other local social news . |
| 7 | The company , made up of the non-American waste disposal interest of Waste Management International Inc , earned £96.4m pre-tax last year . |
| 8 | One alternative would be that history may be made up of the multiple meanings of specific , particular histories — without their necessarily being in turn part of a larger meaning of an underlying Idea or force . |
| 9 | Both body and clothing are made up of the black and the white — uncomplicated but striking — and her complexion shines like gold ( 3236 – 41 ; 3246 ; 3255 – 6 ) . |
| 10 | The Donaldson matter was petty and tiresome but much of office life was made up of the petty and tiresome . |
| 11 | ‘ It is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shop-keepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 12 | He added : ‘ The picture of politics which survives , however , is completely different , and is largely made up of the petty squabbles of shopkeepers and the airy superiority of the ironmasters . ’ |
| 13 | Nevertheless , ‘ knowledges ’ are products like any others , and are thus the results of certain processes of production , made up of the usual elements . |
| 14 | A paradigm is made up of the general theoretical assumptions and laws and techniques for their application that the members of a particular scientific community adopt . |
| 15 | In the early 1980s , 80 per cent of agricultural exports were made up of the following items , in order of importance : coffee , sugar , soya beans , oil seed meal and oil-cake , cotton , cocoa , bananas , beef and live cattle , maize and wheat ( López Cordovez 1982 ) . |
| 16 | The crew of the train will be made up of the following people : Keith Dawson ( organiser of ‘ Vintage Train ’ ) ; . |
| 17 | In any given case the decision of the court will be made up of the following elements : |
| 18 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 19 | Deputies to the Federal Assembly , which is made up of the Federal Chamber ( 220 seats ) and the Chamber of Republics and Provinces ( 88 seats ) are elected by a multi-tiered system of communal assemblies , and serve for four years . |
| 20 | In addition , a prominent counter-melody is introduced ( itself largely made up of the small cell of our example ) . |
| 21 | A coalition of three opposition parties , made up of the Mongolian Democratic Party ( MDP ) , the Mongolian Party of National Progress ( MPNP ) and the Mongolian United Party ( MUP ) , received 17.5 per cent of the vote and only four seats . |
| 22 | Too often headteacher 's reports are made up of the dry dust of lists of attendance figures , class visits , building repairs , pupil numbers and details of resignations and appointments . |
| 23 | Prominent among these organizations is the Trilateral Commission , made up of the great and good from the United States , Europe and Japan , whose business is ‘ Elite Planning for World Management ’ ( see Holly Sklar , 1980 ) . |
| 24 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 25 | The Service is made up of the Latin American sections of the international Catholic organisations for radio and television ( UNDA ) , press ( UCLAP ) and audio visuals ( OCIC ) . |
| 26 | History , which can now no longer be considered a concept as such , is therefore made up of the incommensurable relation between these two disjunctive set-ups . |
| 27 | For example , the family is made up of the interconnected roles of husband , father , wife , mother , son and daughter . |
| 28 | Alternatively they may be filled with water made up to the appropriate strength of degreaser or caustic cleaner and heated to boiling point . |
| 29 | By the way they 're also made up for the following week as well in case , if it 's Tuesday night , oh , let me just look at next week , what have I got ? |
| 30 | The bed was crisply made up with the be-frilled white broderie anglaise bed-linen which she 'd brought specially from England as her gift to Marie-Christine and Jacques . |