Example sentences of "made [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scaevola presents a similar case in which there is a legacy of a sum of money to one man , Seius , who is charged with payment of maintenance to freedmen ; in codicils the legacy is adeemed and the sum made over to another man , Maevius : is the trust due ? |
| 2 | The killer made off through rush-hour traffic on a bicycle , later found abandoned a short distance down the road . |
| 3 | Then they escorted us to our rooms , where we gratefully made up for lost sleep . |
| 4 | SKIPPER Allan Border hit his highest first-class score of the tour as Australia made up for lost time on a rain-hit day against Warwickshire at Edgbaston . |
| 5 | ‘ Good thinking , Princess , ’ he said , with an easy charm that made up for any lack of etiquette . |
| 6 | So it made up for any other , er , you know . |
| 7 | Fortunately the driver made up for this heresy by roundly cursing the French , whom he disliked for the same reason that most Englishmen do — the way they clutter up the place , never get out of the way and ca n't speak English . |
| 8 | The women made up for this restraint . |
| 9 | He had no abilities , but made up for this drawback with sharp elbows . |
| 10 | This win made up for last year 's defeat by Rob Orme when things just did n't go right for Dunlop . |
| 11 | More spectacular has been the recent observation of twin images of the same quasar source seen through a gravitational lens made up of galactic material nearer to the Earth . |
| 12 | The government , even in a minority , is more united than an opposition made up of one majority party and a number of minor parties which do not always act in concert . |
| 13 | Each council was staffed by a secretariat made up of one representative from each cabinet member with its work directed by an executive secretary from the staff of the Office of Policy Development within the White House . |
| 14 | Each team will carry a lantern and a section of the flag of flags — made up of each flag of the UN member states . |
| 15 | The cause of their mystification was the appearance of a strange-looking object positioned in the bowling crease just prior to the start of play , a star-shaped construction made up of black metal tubes radiating from a central point and festooned with little white balls at regular intervals along each arm . |
| 16 | High percentage of farm land or all land in permanent pasture made up of rough grazing . |
| 17 | There were very few artefacts recovered from the settlement , even in areas protected from later ploughing ; they included shears , nails , a variety of fragmentary fittings and pottery made up of nine fabric groups . |
| 18 | The majority of deliveries to the distribution centres are now also being despatched directly from the Slough filling lines without being stocked on site , with a new system of bar coding for ‘ full pallets ’ made up of single product lines . |
| 19 | Now Wirral City Lands Executive a body made up of senior council officers has decided to show its opposition to the £30m move put forward by a Kent-based company . |
| 20 | The completed bridge made up of Royal Engineer M2 floating rigs. such a bridge would normally be dismantled before dawn in wartime since it would be a prime target for enemy aircraft during daylight hours . |
| 21 | She indicates a necklace made up of military insignia to illustrate her point . |
| 22 | Fortunately , journalist Brigid McConville was available to help tussle with the almost impossible task of distilling up to 1,000 pages of transcript and even more pages of documents into eight sides of pithy words , all of which were edited and made up into camera-ready artwork at the inquiry itself . |
| 23 | It was an overwhelmingly Conservative seat , made up in large part of Mayfair and Belgravia . |
| 24 | But what it lost in architectural refinement , it made up in staggering scale . |
| 25 | Then , in the car , the two of them would sing nonsensical songs , made up from Yiddish slang , at the tops of their voices and talk gibberish — childish , therapeutic , playful gibberish . |
| 26 | Phoenix presently get their fleece from an Austrian producer and will soon launch a new range of garments for climbers and walkers , made up from Italian fleece . |
| 27 | One such system is based entirely on descriptions made up from planar half spaces . |
| 28 | Then the guides lured a barking deer , with the sound of a pipe they made out of half-split bamboo . |