Example sentences of "[adv] a [noun sg] was make [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So a truce was made with the Spartans ( 451 ) which , as Thucydides describes it ( i.112 ) , need not have been motivated by more than Athens ' commonsense desire to deal with her enemies one by one . |
| 2 | Naturally an appeal was made by the McLaren team but the dispute was not resolved for many weeks . |
| 3 | Great-Uncle Isaac at Dummah Hill , where Father was living and working , was kin to the brothers so an arrangement was made for him to take over the land . |
| 4 | It was not felt appropriate to raise this as a direct question to the authorities so an application was made to Namibia for an amateur radio licence for a Dxpedition to the Penguins . |
| 5 | The main purpose was to pack as much corn as possible into the bay ; but in treading the corn in this way much of it was shaken out of the ear , and thus a start was made on the threshing . |
| 6 | On April 16/17 Sugar took her crew on a raid on the marshalling yards at Pilsen in Czechoslovakia , this time a flight of over eight hours duration , but on the return home a diversion was made into Boscombe Down . |
| 7 | Held , allowing the appeal , that once an order was made under section 31 of the Children Act 1989 placing a child in the care of a local authority , responsibility for the care of the child was firmly with the local authority and the family proceedings court could not retain a power of review over the care order by including directions ; and that , accordingly , the direction relating to the continued involvement of the guardian ad litem would be deleted ( post , p. 812B , G ) . |
| 8 | These were analysed and a count was made of each word according to the number of times the word occurred in the conversation of the speaker and how many times in the total corpus ; also an account was made of the varies words related to the profession or social class of the speaker . |
| 9 | Consequently a search was made for histamine antagonists which blocked the H2 receptor . |
| 10 | Then a start was made on rounding up the C grade , those who were known incongruously as ‘ friendly enemy aliens ’ . |
| 11 | Donal was married on August 29 and shortly afterwards an appointment was made for him at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London . |
| 12 | As it was certain that the aircraft could go faster an attempt was made on the world speed record . |