Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snell has suggested that this sense of right was sufficiently marked to make expectations from the Poor Law part of the " moral economy " which Edward Thompson has applied to the poor 's expectation that corn would be sold to them at " just " prices . |
| 2 | Desperately trying to pull herself together , she strove to console herself with the thought that , if Ross could hardly remember their brief marriage , it was obviously going to make matters easier for them both during this hurried trip to America . |
| 3 | Duckworth recounted how in Palestine he had met a scribe whose craftsmanship had weakened with age and so was only permitted to make copies of the ‘ writings ’ a part of the O.T . |
| 4 | But George Wedd , an under-secretary at the Department of the Environment , went on to suggest that the present generation was morally bound to make plans . |
| 5 | I was just trying to make conversation . |
| 6 | The river was generally utilised to make water defences and it is these which give to the châteaux the picturesque quality which so many possess . |
| 7 | His precipitate action was clearly calculated to make life harder rather than easier for the PLO as he abandoned responsibility for civil servants in the West Bank . |
| 8 | The club closed in the late Sixties and was later demolished to make way for the shopping centre Eldon Gardens . |
| 9 | I was able to visit her several times and then , in my capacity as literary editor of New Hungarian Quarterly , I was often sent to make contact with poets in America and so on . |
| 10 | During the Second World War the Germans used coal gasification to make syn-gas which was then used to make oil in a process developed by two chemists named Fischer and Tropsch . |
| 11 | With Paul Foot on board the magazine was heading towards its investigative period , an area into which the underground press was consistently to fail to make inroads . |
| 12 | Lead was first used at about the same time as copper , though it was seldom used to make artefacts in its own right . |
| 13 | The Crowther committee was set up to consider the education of boys and girls between the ages of 15 and 18 , and it was specifically asked to make recommendations about the place therein of exams below GCE level . |
| 14 | The ILP was in decline and the Communist Party " was seriously attempting to make amends for its previous abuse of the rest of the labour movement . |