Example sentences of "be make [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Although some studies have been made of rural railways , the majority have looked at road-based public transport ( Halsall and Turton , 1979 ) , since only the road provides the flexibility required in rural areas . |
| 32 | Observations have been made of one turbulent spot appearing in the boundary layer a little way downstream of an older one , whose presence has caused sufficient disturbance . |
| 33 | The turning point came in July 1973 , when a White House official almost accidentally let it be known that tape recordings had regularly been made of all conversations conducted by the President in the White House . |
| 34 | We have now examined into Master Hussey 's means , and we are satisfied , ’ said the prince , very gravely and courteously , ‘ that even though no exact inventory has yet been made of all the property passing to you , Master Hussey , by your uncle 's will , yet you have certainly acquired assets which must be disposable , and of such a nature as to be very readily disposable . |
| 35 | ‘ There is pressure on me , but too much has been made of that . |
| 36 | Further addition has been made of seventy two thousand pounds for service and negatives , introduced by the Department bill , and approved by the Policy Committee last June . |
| 37 | Rather , individual studies have been made of certain types in the reports on the excavation of cemeteries . |
| 38 | In many respects the management of GEAR has been ineffective : goals have been defined too broadly , simply to ensure consensus ; organizations have been assimilated within GEAR for purely cosmetic purposes ; power has been too diffuse ; and too much has been made of environmental improvements when the local economy has been subject to dramatic changes and unemployment has risen substantially . |
| 39 | Some comparative studies have already been made of environmental impact and safety although much more needs to be done . |
| 40 | A number of methodological criticisms have been made of these studies which cast serious doubt on the validity of their findings . |
| 41 | Mention has been made of direct labour and of how such organisations have reduced the number of trainees by about 40 per cent . |
| 42 | Panic throbbed through my body and , if I had n't been made of sterner stuff , I would have dug spurs into my horse and galloped as fast as I could back to Ipswich . |
| 43 | Recent criticisms have been made of several aspects of this approach . |
| 44 | Not much has been made of this migration , some ethnic tension apart , and even less of the fact that in the years since the second world war it has been essential for western European economic life . |
| 45 | Too much has been made of this by Western critics . |
| 46 | I agree entirely with my hon. Friend , and so does every independent study and assessment that has been made of this matter . |
| 47 | However , despite an increase in collaborative ventures criticisms have been made of this form of organisation . |
| 48 | The many criticisms that have been made of this body of work will be recognised , but again we will be arguing that it has much to teach us , especially as regards incorporating an understanding of instinctive behaviour into an understanding of social relations and moral careers . |
| 49 | Such a group may be large , as in the case of community studies of whole towns , or quite small , as in the various studies that have been made of street-corner boys , groups of school-pupils , or people institutions such as colleges or mental hospitals . |
| 50 | Generalizations about the state of the towns in late medieval England are , however , risky ; each had its own history , which might be very different from that of its neighbour , and it is likely that even when more individual studies have been made of particular towns the general picture will be one of diversity rather than of similarity . |
| 51 | Many tools may have been made of organic materials but some , for instance wood-working tools , were of metal . |
| 52 | The standard of joiner work throughout is good and much use has been made of laminated veneers to provide rounded corners . |
| 53 | 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 . |
| 54 | A great deal of progress has been made on equal rights . |
| 55 | Impressive translations have been made on such a basis , though usually by poets . |
| 56 | 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 . |
| 57 | 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 . " |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda . |
| 60 | The Santus Troupe partnership of Julian Santus and his sons Ernest and Roger was compulsorily liquidated by the VAT man at the end of last year and bankruptcy orders have now been made on all three . |