Example sentences of "[was/were] only made " in BNC.
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| 1 | Compromises with his few but firmly held prejudices were only made when to hold out meant risking something irreplaceable . |
| 2 | The task force was only made possible by cobbling together the remnants of the battle fleet , including the two last aircraft-carriers , Invincible and Hermes . |
| 3 | The palace was only made into an art gallery in 1950 and some of the original plasterwork and frescos remain in the interior , the frescos by August Aldorandini and Jan Rudolf Bys . |
| 4 | Surreptitiously , I tried it , it did n't work , so I placed a coin on the palm of my hand , still it did n't work and I then discovered that the magnet was only made of wood . |
| 5 | This model was only made in 1913 and 1914 . |
| 6 | Indeed that very initial act was only made possible through the Spirit who bestowed the gift of faith ( Eph. 2:8 ) . |
| 7 | It has often been suggested that the active self-government practised by the Athenians was only made possible by the existence of slavery , and perhaps also by the existence of empire as a source of revenue to pay for democracy . |
| 8 | Although the production of synthetic diamonds and rubies was only made possible by modern science , the idea of replacing natural by artificial substances in jewellery was one of remote antiquity . |
| 9 | But this was only made possible by treating the emergence of the human race as the last phase of the general progress of life towards higher levels of organization and consciousness . |
| 10 | In 1761 copper mines had been opened on Bayly 's lands at Parys mountain near Amlwch , but significant progress was only made from 1768 , when a mass of easily worked copper was located which was soon worked under lease by Charles Roe & Co. of Macclesfield . |
| 11 | Government money was only made available to meet the cost of the administrative work involved . |
| 12 | Instead , as the statement of source and application of funds reveals , it was still a net customer rather than generator of cash , since an apparent increase of £162,000 in the company 's cash balances was only made possible by a loan of £350,000 . |
| 13 | This miracle of immense stone buildings pierced by great openings and carved into tracery was only made structurally possible by the engineering development of the stone vault and its consequent abutment . |
| 14 | That AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis is the cause of pain in affected patients is supported by earlier work in HIV-infected patients ( which included 10 of the patients described here ) where a diagnosis of AIDS related sclerosing cholangitis was only made after the exclusion of other causes of pain , but the possibility that pain arises in the pancreas is raised by the discovery of coexistent abnormal pancreatograms . |
| 15 | In three , the diagnosis of indeterminate colitis was made from the colectomy specimen , whereas in the other three the diagnosis was only made after examination of the excised rectum ( two after ileorectal anastomosis ) . |
| 16 | The report was submitted in March 1991 , but was only made public last month after its discovery in the Department of Environment 's library by a Friends of the Earth researcher . |
| 17 | Which was only made for export . |
| 18 | But it was n't easy in this top against bottom clash as the home side fought for every ball on the rather energy sapping surface which was only made playable some forty eight hours beforehand . |