Example sentences of "[verb] been made on [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A great deal of progress has been made on equal rights . |
| 2 | The decision has been made on financial conditions and not to meet the needs of the team . |
| 3 | Active flight is used by many animals to escape predators , and a particularly elegant study has been made on noctuid moths by Roeder . |
| 4 | The report goes on to say that clean-up policy has been made on political rather than scientific grounds and that " less than 1 percent of the $4,200 million spent each year on hazardous-waste sites in the US has been used to evaluate health risks at listed Superfund sites . " |
| 5 | A start has been made on this process . |
| 6 | It has also been suggested that several of these pagus centres were later promoted to the rank of civitas capitals in their own right ; examples for which a case has been made on epigraphic grounds in Britain include Carlisle , Ilchester and Water Newton . |
| 7 | I have n't checked the erm er wording of today 's programme , but I 've no reason to assume that any mistakes will have been made on that . |
| 8 | These two arms shipments to Iran resulted in the much publicised release of David Jacobsen to Terry Waite on 2 November 1986 which at the time was said to have been made on humanitarian grounds following Waite 's appeal to the Iranians . |
| 9 | In the indictment , however , the sale was said to have been made on 7 December 1988 , and the purchaser was identified as Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi . |
| 10 | During these early talks , progress appeared to have been made on Unionist demands ( i ) that the British government should seriously consider the possibility of an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agrement ; ( ii ) that the Anglo-Irish secretariat based near Belfast should be suspended before devolution talks began ; and ( iii ) that the normal summer gap between meetings of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference [ see below ] could be defined in advance and used as an opportunity to open formal negotiations . |
| 11 | Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda . |
| 12 | But no great impact had been made on this side of the Channel . |
| 13 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 14 | Impressive translations have been made on such a basis , though usually by poets . |
| 15 | After housing , the service in which privatisation has made the most progress is the NHS , inroads have been made on several interrelated fronts . |