Example sentences of "a [noun sg] was made [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A study was made of various options for the future of the laboratory and it was decided to diversify into commercial work of both a non-nuclear and an applied nuclear nature . |
| 2 | No association was found with cholesterol levels , but a distinction was made between macrovascular and microvascular complications in this study . |
| 3 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council a request was made by local residents for the 30 mph speed limit in village to be extended to the section of Gubberford Lane beyond the railway bridge to take in the group of dwellings ending with Woodlands . |
| 4 | A request was made by local residents for street lighting on the section of Gubberford Lane to the South of the railway bridge where there are houses on one side of the road . |
| 5 | Similarly , a selection was made between multiple readings corresponding to non-anaphoric ambiguities by applying the syntactic preferences of Frazier & Fodor ( 1979 ) . |
| 6 | Every so often , at one licensed dealer , a box was passed round the established dealers , and a collection was made of unwanted leads . |
| 7 | The respondent was informed in the early hours of 17 August 1987 that complaint had been made against him and a report was made to New Scotland Yard . |
| 8 | Under a programme jointly funded by BGS , the Royal Society and the National Natural Science Foundation of China , a visit was made to north-eastern China to investigate the structural relationships between the North and South China cratons . |