Example sentences of "was [vb pp] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Influenced by Eisenstein , his epic theatre used naturalistic language , a technologically advanced yet nonornamental stage set , and was intended to make theatre into a mix of ‘ lecture hall and debating chamber ’ ( Willett 1978 , p. 151 ) . |
| 2 | This rhetoric was intended to make Ceauşescu new friends outside the Soviet bloc , particularly in the West . |
| 3 | This was intended to make Gaza and the West Bank wholly dependent on Israel and frustrate any efforts to build a community power base . |
| 4 | Then , donning his philosophical idealist heritage , Sadler quoted Aristotle to remind his readers that the purpose of the State was to enhance life for its citizens : ‘ the State was formed to make life possible , and exists to make life good ’ . |
| 5 | The assistant inclined his head diplomatically and when an American was heard to make enquiries about cashmere sweaters he stepped aside . |
| 6 | A Catholic family who had squatted in the house was evicted to make room for her , and a number of other Catholic families in the area were also denied houses . |
| 7 | In 1885 a new type of exchange had opened in Egham , Surrey , known as the Egham Free Registry , which was designed to make contact between employers and workers . |
| 8 | Having said that , however , we can tease out from the textbooks of the sixties an implicit theoretical perspective that bore on groups and was designed to make sense of British politics as a whole . |
| 9 | In 1968 , the last word in its title was dropped to make way for the National Eye Institute . |
| 10 | I found I was expected to make progress , entailing fast driving within the speed limits on all roads . |
| 11 | One of the landlords was reckoned to make £400,000 a year from the DHSS . |
| 12 | All sides — Iran and all parties capable of doing something — can bring pressure to end this tragedy in such a manner as to avoid giving the impression that this was done to make trade or that one side has blackmailed the other into doing something it did not want to do . " |
| 13 | The other sizeable group of offences reported on is where the case involves someone well known ( e.g. Bronski pop man fined for sex offence or more frequently there is either fame by association ( e.g. GAY-SEX SHAME OF ESTHER 'S ‘ BROTHER' , where the inverted commas in the headline indicate the rather more tenuous link with television star Esther Rantzen than the headline immediately suggests ) , or the actor who was said to make £12,000 a year from impersonating Prince Charles , or someone who sounds from the headline to be well known ( e.g. CASTRATE ME SAYS GAY OPERA SINGER : He preyed on children . |
| 14 | But because the North-East houses a significantly bigger part of C&P 's assets than the North-West , it was decided to make Wilton a second major administrative centre . |
| 15 | It seemed that the whole country had gone mad clamouring to put money into the new transport system which was destined to make fortunes for its investors . |
| 16 | This rhetoric was offered to make sense of a changing society , which by the mid-1980s resulted from Conservative economic policy . |
| 17 | He took us inside and introduced us to Kjell-Arne , a lanky , shy youth who worked for him and was told to make coffee , and Tove , the kennel girl . |
| 18 | This was used to make comma shaped charms ( magatama ) of the kind placed with burials of the Tomb Period during the first half of the first millennium A.D. both in Japan itself and in Korea . |
| 19 | They include echinops , the globe thistle , red bergamot and sneezewort ; which centuries ago was used to make snuff . |
| 20 | A third reason given for non-use of LGS was a non-availability of gur ( the unrefined sugar which was used to make LGS ) . |
| 21 | And some was used to make people . ’ |
| 22 | He had been employed in the 1960s by the firm , which was known at the time as Maranite Ltd , when asbestos fibre was used to make boards for doors for the shipbuilding industry . |
| 23 | Built of stone and of conical shape , it was used to make steel by heating wrought iron with charcoal in sealed fireclay pots , so that the high carbon content of the charcoal was absorbed by the molten metal and became steel . |
| 24 | A rough but convenient index of heavy chemical production is provided by sulphuric acid , because it was used to make dyestuffs , fertilizers , and many other chemicals . |
| 25 | A crash programme was needed to make dyes even for Army uniforms . |
| 26 | Once the church had a beautiful Gothic façade , but during renovation work on the Palazzo Reale in 1770 this was demolished to make way for a new main staircase . |
| 27 | The church took its name from that of an older church a little way off that was demolished to make way for the ramparts of the Porta Romana in 1532 . |
| 28 | At the time , part of the mill was demolished to make way for a new road , some of the remainder being converted to shops . |
| 29 | The value of Newcastle 's shipping industry in the nineteenth century made it necessary for large ships to pass up the river , and the low stone bridge of 1771 was demolished to make way for the Swing Bridge built by Armstrongs , and at that time the largest of its kind in the world . |
| 30 | How water was raised from the well can only be speculated but close to this spot stood an old Elizabethan house , which was demolished to make way for the flats . |