Example sentences of "was made [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 The country was made without lines of demarcation and it is no man 's business to divide it …
2 The Home Secretary 's reference was made following complaints by the appellant of police malpractice , an investigation by the P.C.A. and the quashing of convictions in other cases involving one of the officers of whose conduct the appellant complained .
3 AN appeal for Liss tree wardens was made to residents at the parish council 's annual general meeting by parish councillor Jim Duckham .
4 — This little house they lived in was made of strips of palm too and tied together with the tough liana ropes .
5 Use was made of facilities for communications , intelligence gathering , and early warning systems .
6 The oven was made of sheets of iron , in sections ; and you could fit it or pin it together and dismantle it after use .
7 As well as this , no provision was made for transactions in the expanding futures and options markets .
8 An appeal was made for members of committee to be present .
9 A similar comparison was made for values of B , here mean values were 0.28 higher in Study 3 and this difference was significant ( F(1,100)=5.87 , p<0.05 ) .
10 Written application was made for photocopies of declarations .
11 Under the National Insurance Act 1946 provision was made for tribunals to be established to consider questions of entitlement to , and amount of , contributory benefits , thus establishing the national insurance local tribunals .
12 In one study a comparison was made between pairs of Aphelocoma coerulescens unassisted by helpers and those that were .
13 From the late sixteenth century the size of a domain was expressed in terms of the rice production it could command , and this assessment was made in terms of koku .
14 , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset .
15 The whole thing was made from bits of scrap . ’
16 For example , if the seaming of stocking was not done at home by the wife , in 1811 a deduction of around 1s ( 5p ) was made from earnings of 13s ( 65p ) .
17 A 12-hour radio synthesis map of the field of PSR J0437–4715 was made from observations on 13 August 1992 .
18 The systematic study of Celtic lands was made by Greeks under the Roman hegemony and with Roman encouragement .
19 The grim discovery was made by members of the fell rescue team from RAF Leeming in North Yorkshire .
20 ‘ Whoa ! ’ is constructed slyly , so from the outside it looks like it was made by tramps in their lunch hour , but in reality it is a nifto exercise in song-building that starts off quiet and nervous and by the end is running about the room shouting and pouring lager into flowerpots .
21 On the altar with Mgr Steele and parish priest Mgr Philip Holroyd were representatives of the different congregations , and a procession of gifts symbolising unity was made by children from St. Austin 's school .
22 INSIDE STORY : MULES looks at women who smuggle drugs and THE PRISONER looks like was made by men on drugs .
23 The announcement of the commuting of death sentences was made after talks in London between Shaikh Saad and the United Kingdom Prime Minister John Major .
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