Example sentences of "made [prep] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difference of interpretation is not some accidental effect arising from the combination of certain adjectives with particular nouns ; some phrases are subject to both interpretations : ( 9 ) his Italian diary might refer either to a diary which is Italian , perhaps in the sense that it was manufactured there , or to a record made during a journey through Italy . |
| 2 | Announcing the arrest , which was made during a raid on the offices of an Imhausen-Chemie subsidiary in Bochum near Cologne , the Cologne state prosecutor , Holger Presiendanz , said that Hippenstiel-Imhausen was " strongly suspected " of a " significant personal role in the planning and building " of the Rabta plant ( for previous report on the investigation see p. 36477 ) . |
| 3 | The alleged comments were made during a conversation with royal correspondent James Whitaker . |
| 4 | The alleged comments were made during a conversation with royal correspondent James Whitaker . |
| 5 | King Fahd 's comments , made during a visit to Saudi Arabia by Mubarak , suggested that " if President Saddam were to reconsider the matter seriously he would find that it is in Iraq 's interest , and in his interest personally , and in the interest of the Arab nation that he withdraw from Kuwait " , and that " if something wrong was done , we should not try to redress it by another wrong " . |
| 6 | Tin U's remarks , made during a visit by a group of SLORC ministers to the northern city of Mandalay , included a warning of action against people " who attack SLORC and create instability and unrest just for the sake of getting power for their party " , including public servants who were " deceiving " the government by engaging in " political intrigue " . |
| 7 | In Israel , however , a statement made during a ceremony at the Yad Vashem national shrine to Jewish victims of the Nazi holocaust declared : " We are filled with deep anxiety since it was a united Germany , under the Nazi rule , which brought upon the Jewish people the most horrendous tragedy of this generation . " |
| 8 | The offer was made during a meeting in New York between Richard Solomon , US Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific , and Trinh Xuan Lang , Vietnam 's permanent representative at the UN . |
| 9 | New discoveries are constantly being made through a return to original sources . |
| 10 | In spite of six weeks of unceasing rain Wade was , by October 1732 , able to write , ‘ I still hope in a fortnight to pass the Coriarick Mountain in my coach ’ , and sure enough by the end of October the road was finished , ‘ made through a part of the country , ’ as he justly claimed in his report to the Treasury , ‘ that was scarcely passable for man or horse … now made as easy and practicable for wheel carriages as any road in the country ’ . |
| 11 | In Japanese industry , decisions are made through a process of information combination . |
| 12 | Search can be made through a number of different files at the same time . |
| 13 | Provision was made for a crew of five ; pilot and co-pilot side-by-side in an open cockpit , a flight engineer , wireless-operator and gunner . |
| 14 | 5.9 provides for application being made for a certificate of completion , which application is to be granted if the works as completed comply with the warrant under which they were executed . |
| 15 | Definitely an acquired taste was a clunky Spanish colonial gilt-metal mounted mother-of-pearl , tortoiseshell , pewter , ebonised and parcel-gilt cabinet made for a viceroy of Peru , and dating from the second half of the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | Provision is made for a range of access rights , entry ownership , organisation and work management . |
| 17 | I do not believe that the case has been made for a change in our policy . |
| 18 | A powerful case has been made for a change in the law . |
| 19 | Arrangements are made for a person to ‘ sit in ’ in the older person 's home . |
| 20 | Provision is made for a follow- up survey to monitor changes during the period of the project . |
| 21 | He had added that his new possession would need ‘ a bit of doing up ’ , but other engineers working at Nigel 's firm seemed almost as fascinated as he himself , and once it arrived on the premises Nigel remarked jokingly , ‘ Not too many lighthouses were made for a couple of years . ’ |
| 22 | United 's goalscoring slowed significantly in the second half of the season , but no move was made for a striker until £1 million Dion Dublin arrived in August . |
| 23 | On March 19 Bolivia announced the appointment of a consul but no decision was made for a resumption of diplomatic relations [ for Bolivian sea outlet issue see p. 37488 ] . |
| 24 | To multiply human cells in tissue culture on the scale necessary presented considerable difficulties , but enough material has been made for a variety of clinical trials against many different viral diseases and certain cancers . |
| 25 | Although ‘ mixed ’ marriages between people of different races or cultures are made for a variety of reasons , conscious and unconscious , some are necessitated by the need to have constant reassurance of difference : for example , a skin of another colour . |
| 26 | Demands have been made for a withdrawal of the invitation to controversial historian , David Irving , to address student societies in Dublin University , University College Dublin and University College Cork . |
| 27 | As she watched , a small car drove slowly past and made for a cottage at the far end and on the other side of the narrow track . |
| 28 | Plans for 1991 are being made for a reunion on a Saturday as near to the middle of June as possible . |
| 29 | The greatest surprise , however , was lot 187 , the 3½ foot , 784-ounce Tiffany presentation piece , made for a builder of a South American railroad , and modelled in the round , with figures of peons and an allegory of America , parcel-gilt in three different colours of gold . |
| 30 | Despite the vehement opposition to the passage of the Act by the tuna industry , steady progress was being made for a while by the US tuna fleet to reduce dolphin kills , until the election of ex-Californian governor Ronald Reagan as US President . |