Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] make [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 2 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 3 | He spoke to the officer on desk duty who said that a complaint against Russell had been made at another station . |
| 4 | Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda . |
| 5 | But no great impact had been made on this side of the Channel . |
| 6 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 7 | He said that all Waddell 's confessions had been made ‘ for drink or money ’ but did n't add that the clandestine confession given to the two BBC reporters had been made for neither . |
| 8 | Moreover , provision had been made for any firm that might become financially insolvent ; in this way , systemic risk was largely averted . |
| 9 | She was happily thinking , Serves him right , a pity there was n't a cloudburst , when across the car park , in an area where the top managers of Vasey 's normally parked their cars , she noticed that room had been made for another car . |
| 10 | No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality . |
| 11 | If a similar prohibition had been made to all film critics entering Hook , I doubt whether the reviews of Steven Spielberg 's Peter Pan adventure would have been half so bilious . |
| 12 | Apart from this type of building , attempts had been made in many countries to provide an adequate base for the circular section of the dome so that it could be set upon a square section building . |
| 13 | He added that concrete improvements had been made in that field , especially in Bulgaria . |
| 14 | This method of examining the data has not been employed in the previous studies because no attempt had been made in those studies to be representative in the sampling of direction of turn at each junction ( see Table 4.2 ) . |
| 15 | Although a preparatory process for the restoration of loans had been initiated during a recent visit to Beijing by a Japanese government official , no " concrete " commitment had been made in this regard , Kyodo reported . |
| 16 | The tunnel had taken several months to build and some of the accusations which had been made against these same people now looked rather silly . |