Example sentences of "make of a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet others , like the pumpkin , were made of a size to be shared amongst the whole neighbourhood , and many of these larger fruits were marked on their outer rind with vertical divisions , so as to make apportionment the easier . |
| 2 | While we are with the greatest works of the period , mention must be made of a work of comparable distinction , the Doves Press edition of the Bible ( five volumes , 1903–5 ) , described by Colin Clair as ‘ in its magnificent simplicity one of the noblest books ever produced in this country ’ . |
| 3 | Although brief mention is made of a reduction in general medical referral rates , no attempt is made to compare this 9.8% reduction with the 22.6% increase in the non-fundholders ' referral rate to general medicine . |
| 4 | The claim is sometimes made of a lack of continuity in policy which has been damaging to growth : in particular , that political changes have inhibited consistent action by civil servants . |
| 5 | But for the most part we shivered in our beds that winter , heaping on more and more blankets , which seemed to be made of a mixture of cardboard and lead and only increased the weight without increasing the heat . |
| 6 | The second generation uses a new type of semiconductor laser , made of a mixture of iridium , gallium , arsenic and phosphorus . |
| 7 | The dentine that forms the tough inner core of the tooth is a vital tissue , made of a composite of collagen and hydroxylapatite , and containing tubules that radiate from the pulp cavity at the centre of the tooth . |
| 8 | In this study I have not attempted such quantitative analyses , but I still believe that good use can be made of a combination of the two approaches . |
| 9 | This is easiest to detect when the mound has been made of a material with a distinctive colour , such as chalk . |
| 10 | If the ships had been made of a material like glass they would have broken long before a crack became conspicuous . |
| 11 | The lithographic stone is made of a slab of almost pure limestone , which easily absorbs grease . |
| 12 | The aesthetics of fractals is celebrated by Peter Telljohann , born 1935 , at Carla Stutzer ( Kamekestrasse 21 ) with ‘ Millers ’ a piece made of a number of small , changeable wooden sculptures , all the same colour . |
| 13 | And it was made of a sort of very I would think cheap starched er cotton . |
| 14 | |The easiest ‘ wings ’ are made of a rectangle of nylon net , tightly gathered in the centre to form two wings . |
| 15 | Each caste is made of a group of family lineages who are endogamous within the caste but must marry outside the paternal lineage . |
| 16 | WHAT are we to make of a claim by the Surrey Wildlife Trust that more than a million wild animals and birds are ‘ probably ’ killed every year on the roads of Britain ? |
| 17 | So what is an Irish gay and lesbian audience to make of a programme of films made entirely abroad ? |
| 18 | It seems unreal that Perry could even consider dissolving Jane 's , given what he makes of a stage with them . |