Example sentences of "was make [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Having reached the conclusion that there was consideration for the agreement made on June 28 and June 29 , 1973 , I must next consider whether even if that agreement , varying the terms of the original ship-building contract of April 10 , 1972 , was made under a threat to break that original contract and that the various increased instalments were made consequentially under the varied agreement , the increased sums can be recovered as money had and received .
2 Nor does National Pari-Mutuel Association Ltd. v. The King , 47 T.L.R. 110 in which it was held that payment of betting duty under a statutory provision thought by the plaintiffs to be applicable but later held by this House in a similar case to be inapplicable , was made under a mistake of law and not of fact and was therefore irrecoverable .
3 Neither entry was made under a mistake .
4 Until then an individual could obtain income tax relief for a gift to charity only if the gift was made under a Deed of Covenant .
5 Similar intervention apparently occurred in RENFE in the 1985 bargaining round when an improved offer was made following a meeting between confederal leaders of the UGT and the minister of transport ( see ch. 7 ) .
6 This decision , by the trust 's central committee , was made despite a vote by NT membership in favour of an outright ban at its annual meeting in Wales .
7 In the holiday camps sector frequent reference was made to a category of " persons who work in the holiday industry " , by which was meant those who regularly spend the summer in jobs in camps and hotels and the winter in jobs abroad or on cruise ships .
8 The government 's latest autonomy offer , which was expected to be endorsed by Barzani — the DPK leader — before the next round of negotiations , was made to a delegation of Kurdish leaders including Talabani , Nechirvan Barzani ( a nephew of Masoud Barzani and a leading DPK member ) , Sami Abdul-Rahman of the Kurdistan People 's Democratic Party ( KPDP ) and Rasoul Marmand of the Socialist Party of Kurdistan ( SPK ) , during six days of secret talks .
9 It should also be noted that " credit " is available for earlier dispositions which are associated operations which amounted to transfers of value except where the disposition was made to a spouse .
10 This was seen to be a problem and in the 1960 's a change was made to a method known as ‘ total communication ’ .
11 Use was made of a video camera system belonging to the department 's robotics group .
12 Much was made of a note addressed to Hua stating , ‘ with you in charge , I 'm at ease ’ , in an effort to legitimise his succession .
13 And it was made of a sort of very I would think cheap starched er cotton .
14 A land-use survey was made on a route out of the city centre — in this case Mansfield Road , and the land use and building use were noted on a rough map ( see fig 3 ) .
15 This is because the present case is not one in which an excessive assessment was made on a taxpayer , through some error of fact or law , as is contemplated by section 33(1) .
16 This was made on a piece of 3mm hardboard measuring 300mm by 230mm ( 12″ by 9″ ) although you can adjust these measurements to suit yourself ; nothing else is affected by this .
17 In the UK , progress was made on a number of transport projects including the Heston and ‘ Birmingham Box ’ schemes with further contract successes seen for 1993 .
18 No order was made on a claim for £52,000 compensation .
19 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 .
20 The Award was made for a breakthrough which is already improving the diagnosis and monitoring of treatment of major diseases including cancer , AIDS , hepatitis , rubella , and fertility disorders .
21 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 ] .
22 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 .
23 Well , the gravestone certainly stands by the porch and it does have a hole drilled through it , said to have been where the iron stake was hammered through the stone into the coffin , but I 'm afraid that I agree with the general consensus voiced around the bar of the Sun Inn and the George and Dragon that George Hodgson was guilty of nothing but old age , that the only thing he sucked were his gums , and that the hole in the stone was made for a railing or gatepost .
24 Her nose was too small to balance her high flat cheekbones , and her mouth was made for a face at least two sizes larger .
25 It was made with a slit for the blade to pass , like the slits at the back in angels ' tunics for their wings , and was changed according to the seasons ' calendar .
26 Considerably more sacrilegious , albeit in a flippant way , is Du Con qui fu fait a la besche , " Of the cunt , which was made with a spade " , in which God is presented as having forgotten to give Eve genitals and then allowing the Devil to remedy this , on the condition that he neither adds to nor takes anything away from God 's creature .
27 It appears to me that the omission from the Lautro Rules reflects an omission from the Act , and in my judgment the omission was made with a deliberation in each case which makes an implication impossible .
28 It appears to me that the omission from the Lautro Rules reflects an omission from the Act , and in my judgment the omission was made with a deliberation in each case which makes an implication impossible .
29 On this occasion the timed run was made with a stopwatch , all compasses had been re-swung and the ASI recalibrated .
30 The last of these produced negative rather than positive transfer but , in that study , the shift was from a very difficult successive task to a simultaneous discrimination , and comparison was made with a control group that received no prior training .
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