Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] made [prep] [noun] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 To date only the 2 inch version has been made by GEC while its main foreign rivals have already made the important wafer size adjustment — many more electronic devices can be made from each wafer .
2 One attempt to model only critical variables which determine yield has been made by Stocking and Pain ( 1983 ) where they concentrate upon the impact of erosive forces upon the availability of minimum moisture levels .
3 An attempt to reunite both channels of thought has been made by Adam and Gibbs who have outlined a molecular kinetic theory .
4 An attempt to estimate the cumulative effect of thematic map errors in digital overlay analysis has been made by Newcomer and Szajgin ( 1984 ) .
5 Compared with other jurisdictions , little attempt has been made in England and Wales to confine the exercise of sentencers ' discretion by limiting the extent of their powers .
6 While that is being done , their families at home , in Zaire , Somalia , Iran , Iraq , or wherever it may be , are in great danger if the authorities in those countries find out that an asylum application has been made in Europe or anywhere else .
7 In that week 's Ross-shire Journal it is reported , amongst other items like the 1,522 soundings taken by the Channel Tunnel Company — ‘ Greater progress in the formation of the Company has been made in France than England ’ — that Sir Kenneth S. MacKenzie , proprietor of Gairloch , was promoting the welfare of his tenants by offering to defray the costs of mail delivery .
8 Let us think for a few moments of the wonderful achievements of the human race — the towns that have been built , the works of art that have been produced — the books , plays , films , pictures , music … the progress that has been made in science and technology .
9 I beg to move , That this House welcomes the great progress that has been made in employment and the reduction of strikes since 1979 and condemns the employment policies of the Labour Party , particularly its proposals to encourage strikes , to accept every aspect of the European Commission 's Social Action Programme and to impose a national statutory minimum wage , all of which would significantly increase burdens on British employers , undermine competitiveness and destroy jobs .
10 It is only when this distinction has been made in terms that comply with the workings of narrative that the linguistic analogy is introduced : the functions , Barthes suggests , are based on metonymic relations , the indices on metaphoric relations .
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