Example sentences of "be make about [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such a suggestion could never be made about Steve Mungall , who seeks out the heart of the action with such relish that you wonder how his 34-year-old legs can keep carrying him forward like a 24-year-old . |
| 2 | In some instances they temporised : in May 1221 they conceded that ‘ the knights and free tenants of the forest of Berkshire ’ should elect ‘ two law-worthy and discreet knights ’ of their number to keep the forest , under the Chief Justice of the Forest , until Henry III came of age , when a final decision would be made about disafforestment . |
| 3 | It has now been copied into INGRES , a relational database management system , permitting queries to be made about subsets of the data ; for instance , all males between the ages of 25 and 64 suffering from laryngeal cancer . |
| 4 | Similar observations can be made about groups in industry and in society generally . |
| 5 | Perhaps the most important point to be made about postverbals is to distinguish them from the adjectives in the last remaining position , the extraclausal adjectives , which occur in an identical sequence of syntactic elements , but which correspond to a different surface structure as in : ( 45 ) the two reformers persevered undaunted two stagehands appeared , breathless They have the different intensional structure : |
| 6 | Urgent practical decisions have to be made about actions that will have demographic affects . |
| 7 | Hence similar judgements can be made about welfare . |
| 8 | Two particular points may be made about offences of physical violation . |
| 9 | There was anxiety that judgments would be made about teachers ' handling of classes , based on too few visits . |
| 10 | But in 1.4 we argued that monism is more suited to opaque than transparent styles of writing , and the same point may be made about pluralism . |
| 11 | One implication of this model is that , because market volatility and the riskless interest rate are assumed over time to revert towards their mean values , no clear statements can be made about movements in the basis . |
| 12 | This does not mean that there are no generalizations that can be made about evolution , but it does make biology a different kind of science from physics . |
| 13 | In spite of the difficulties already discussed and the limited information available , a number of general conclusions can be made about land use and land use change . |
| 14 | Heavy demands are placed on schools to find time in the curriculum for a wide range of individually worthwhile activities and difficult decisions have to be made about priorities . |
| 15 | The first , and possibly the most important point to be made about institutions within the monetary sector is that deposits with them count as ‘ money ’ . |
| 16 | However , an experiment by Jarvella ( 1971 ) suggests that similar arguments can be made about memory for clauses . |
| 17 | Having observed these relationships systematically , broad descriptive generalisations can be made about society . |
| 18 | The significance of the concept of the linguistic variable is that it allows quantitative statements to be made about language use , so that Speaker A might be said to use more or less of a particular variant than speaker B , rather than categorically to use it or not to use it . |
| 19 | Three interrelated points may be made about professionalism : |
| 20 | Comparable remarks could be made about Theseus and Achilles because they too at times wore women 's clothes and had their ideal relationship not with a woman , but with a man , as Gilgamesh did . |
| 21 | Two further points need to be made about Rule 4 . |
| 22 | Even with PAC data some assumptions would need to be made about numbers of persons per household if good population estimates were to be made . |
| 23 | Studies of use , and of potential use , are an essential prerequisite for the sort of value judgements ( see below ) which must be made about book provision . |
| 24 | This unfortunate episode allows several points to be made about children in church . |
| 25 | Such irony shows considerable awareness of the judgements that can be made about readers . |
| 26 | Two last points need to be made about Othello , the first concerning the hypocrite 's superiority over his dupes . |
| 27 | Schools at present can see that the same thing might happen to them — particularly when local decisions can be made about levels of pay and when local purse-holding is deliberately distanced from the machinery of national funding . |
| 28 | The final point which needs to be made about ethnicity is that as a speaker variable it can not usually be isolated from social class . |
| 29 | On the other hand , Risk was seen as being a possible focus for dissent on the Board , as someone who would interfere with hard decisions that might have to be made about Distillers , and who would , therefore , behave in a more executive role than had been envisaged , rather than as a figurehead . |
| 30 | About resources Decisions must be made about R & D , production , delivery , pricing , promotion , direct marketing , profit margins and so on . |