Example sentences of "was make [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision not to simply take over the entire MoMA show was made partly on the grounds that the Pompidou has already mounted a major Matisse retrospective ( in 1971 ) , and partly through a desire to study in depth a period of the artist 's life now viewed as fundamental for the development of twentieth-century painting . |
| 2 | A major change was made however after the need for the Bank of England to rescue Johnson Matthey Bankers ( JMB ) , a recognised bank , such that the categorisation of licenced deposit takers and recognised banks was abolished and a single category of bank established for regulation . |
| 3 | Reference was made again to the judgment in Hector where Lord Bridge of Harwich said , at p. 318 : |
| 4 | The electric light generating unit was made completely in the Works . |
| 5 | It is unquestionably true that the large-scale employment of women made it possible for certain Edinburgh houses to offer competitive terms in the years up to about 1900–10 , and the argument was made both at the time and in retrospective accounts . |
| 6 | Farr-Jones ' final decision was made soon after the ‘ Yes ’ vote was overwhelmingly passed in South Africa by the white minority . |
| 7 | The road was owned by Mr Dalison who gave it to the parish , in 1892 and it was made up at the cost of £40 and the improvements to the cemetery cost a further £21 140 . |
| 8 | This was made up of the organic residues of farms , forestry , industry and domestic refuse . |
| 9 | In 1913 a half of the total trade of the world was made up of the exports and imports of seven European countries which enjoyed the advantages of a highly developed science and technology , well-established basic industries , and access to capital for investment . |
| 10 | The Donaldson matter was petty and tiresome but much of office life was made up of the petty and tiresome . |
| 11 | The television-viewing public was made up of the older stay-at-homes , not the swinging exotics whose exploits filled the front pages of the newspapers . |
| 12 | This " Maximum Rate " was made up of the arithmetic mean of the trend of GNP of EC countries , the average rise in member states ' budgets , and the trend in the cost of living . |
| 13 | The team that was made up of the remnants from Roxburgh 's original squad — and three of those conscripted to compensate for nine weekend call-offs — distinguished themselves at Ibrox and none more so than Duncan Ferguson , of Dundee United . |
| 14 | The traditionally Muslim peoples of Central Asia accounted for a further 15 per cent ; and the balance was made up for the most part of the larger national groups in Transcaucasia and the Baltic . |
| 15 | Ashore the troops were commanded by Colonel John Durnford-Slater , the Commanding Officer of 3 Commando , who did most of the detailed planning for the raiding force which was made up from the entire 3 Commando , reinforced by two Troops from ‘ No.2 ’ with additional Royal Engineers from ‘ No.6 ’ , Royal Army Medical Corps ( RAMC ) personnel from ‘ No.4 ’ , intelligence officers from the War Office , and a Press Unit . |
| 16 | The daughters of small farmers were best esteemed , but they were declining and the supply was made up from the cottages of artisans , shopkeepers and labourers . |
| 17 | This was made up by the Head Girl mixing together oxide of zinc , glycerine , rosewater , a touch of yellow ochre and methylated spirits , the latter helping to dry it on the legs . |
| 18 | The discovery was made not by the local health officials or the DHSS but at Ahrens ' own instigation , using the services of a London specialist and Manchester University 's rheumatology department which studies aluminium uptake in dialysis patients . |
| 19 | Only Maurice was made fast to the wharf . |
| 20 | Maradona , who captains the defending World Cup champions , was quoted in several Italian newspapers yesterday as saying that ‘ World Cup groups had been predetermined and the draw was made just for the fun of the television audience ’ . |
| 21 | The last code of canon law , still nominally in force , was made just after the death of Queen Elizabeth I Tudor . |
| 22 | When a report was made just after the 1914–18 war , Nos. 1–8 , 11 , 12 , 15 , 23–26 and 35 were mounted on Peckham trucks , while 9 , 10 , 13 , 14 , 16–22 and 27–34 were on Brill trucks . |
| 23 | This point was made also in the reports of the mathematics and science working groups . |
| 24 | However , the appointment was made unilaterally by the USA , which during the last days of the Noriega regime had rejected a Panamanian proposal to appoint Tomás Altamirano Duque . |
| 25 | That may even have been an underestimate since the count was made mainly in the dry , lowland areas whereas numbers of elephants may still have existed in undeveloped parts of the central mountain massif . |
| 26 | Hearts ' bad day was made worse with the news that Celtic had moved past them into second place in the Premier Division after beating Falkirk 3–1 . |
| 27 | The sense of crisis was made worse in the middle of the year when , as the pinnacle of his détente policy , de Gaulle visited Moscow . |
| 28 | The friction which has always existed between the two camps was made worse in the early 1970s when a number of colleges of art , some of them of considerable distinction , were swallowed up by polytechnics . |
| 29 | They told the inquiry that if a particularly strong FM transmission was made very near the radio it might be possible for it to pick up the sub-harmonic at around 14 MHz but that such a signal could not have emanated from a low-powered , hand-held type of two-way radio . |
| 30 | While Nyasha bravely went into the temple and there sitting on the throne that was made only for the chiefs there sat not a king not a prince |