Example sentences of "[that] he [was/were] make " in BNC.
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| 1 | I believe that he was made a partner as soon as he had finished his degree — but that may be pure conjecture on my part . ’ |
| 2 | It was within his own mode of religious discourse that he was made aware of the need to travel in a certain spirit and to think and act in accordance with specific religious and ethical criteria to which he gave the name Truth . |
| 3 | If was for service to the monarchy , however , that he was made the first Earl Ashburnham in 1730 ; for a family that had begun as modest farmers in the medieval Weald , this was no mean achievement . |
| 4 | It emerged yesterday that he was made bankrupt two weeks ago today for failing to pay his solicitors for work they had done . |
| 5 | It was won because Labour was the party of high taxation , because the Conservative Party presented an alternative , and because most electors neither admired Mr Kinnock nor believed that he could deliver the promises that he was making . |
| 6 | In September 1726 Miller reported to Richardson that he was making a comprehensive catalogue of seeds saved from the previous year and would be forwarding it with Martyn 's Synoptical Table of Medicinal Plants and a list of exotics at Chelsea . |
| 7 | In each of his letters he had told Mum that he was making great progress . |
| 8 | She stiffened , suspecting that he was making fun of her . |
| 9 | Yet , Levine , who died in July 1987 , aged 81 , could not have realised that he was making one of the best investments of his life . |
| 10 | His class teacher also felt that he was making progress . |
| 11 | By Easter week it was clear to Richard that he was making no headway against a well-conducted defence and that in terms of political psychology it was risky to stake his reputation on one big success . |
| 12 | Arghatun was speaking again , and he gestured once or twice in the direction of Rostov and the others so that it was clear that he was making a report . |
| 13 | In other words , what would appear to be required is some awareness on the part of the defendant that he was making the task of the police a more difficult one , and this element may have been lacking in Willmott v. Atack , which would explain why the appeal was allowed . |
| 14 | As soon as she had realized that he was making no attempt to disguise his liking for her , she had known that there was no hope . |
| 15 | I had just taken over the Chair and I thought that he was making an intervention . |
| 16 | If he were a safety representative on a platform and , without explanation , he were transferred to another platform run by the same operator or service company , how would an industrial tribunal or any other organisation be able to prove that the reason for his transfer was that he was making a nuisance of himself over safety matters ? |
| 17 | Anan said in a press conference that he was making " basically a goodwill visit " . |
| 18 | He felt that he was making a mistake , but that was that . |
| 19 | De Gaulle was able to be flexible in meeting the demands for democratic participation because he could feel that he was making concessions on his own terms . |
| 20 | Some thought that he had been paid to attack the Visigoths by Gaiseric , king of the Vandals , who were now settled in North Africa ; others that he was making good a claim to be the husband of princess Honoria , daughter of Valentinian III , or that he was intervening in a dispute over the succession to the kingship of the Franks . |
| 21 | Thus , in 1614 James I , believing that he was making presents more valuable than his ambassadors at foreign courts were receiving , ordered that in future the French and Spanish resident ambassadors , who had hitherto been given 4,000 ounces of plate on their departure , should in future receive only half as much and that the representatives of lesser states should also have their customary allowance cut by half . |
| 22 | Would she be able to persuade him that he was making a mistake ? |
| 23 | She should be grateful that he was making things easier than they might otherwise have been . |
| 24 | Murphy , who was 39 last week , recently announced that he was making his original partner , Helen Cree , managing director , although he is staying as executive chairman to concentrate on growing the business , particularly in the financial sector , and improving quality . |
| 25 | He announced that he was making good last year 's promise to look into the knotty question of advance corporation tax , an impost which has been the subject of a crescendo of complaints from some of Britain 's biggest companies . |
| 26 | And there it was , in the late nineties , he was adding up his pence and his shillings and the odd pound or two here and there , these were his costs of making the pictures that he was making in those days , and then when you turned over and we came to nineteen hundred , nineteen hundred and one , nineteen hundred and two , erm the figures had broadened and under the pounds into three figures and then into four . |