Example sentences of "be made [to-vb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this chapter an attempt has been made to explore some evidence about teachers , teaching and teachers ' work . |
| 2 | Sorry , Mr Chairman , where the additional ten million cuts would have been made to fund that . |
| 3 | The work of M. Comte is unquestionably the greatest single effort that has been made to obviate this kind of danger . |
| 4 | They are certainly making such preparations as have never been made to invade this island since the Spanish Armada ; but I trust in God and Lord Anson . |
| 5 | ‘ They are certainly making such preparations as have never been made to invade this island since the Spanish Armada ; but I trust in God and Lord Anson . ’ |
| 6 | Within the space available , an attempt has been made to describe some of the techniques available for obtaining and utilizing chromosome preparations from different stages of embryogenesis . |
| 7 | He was admiring a stylish flower arrangement , observing how cunningly a spray of jasmine had been made to tremble half in , half out of the vase and trail against the console table , when the girl came back and told him Mr Vigo would see him now . |
| 8 | Questions whirled in her brain as the play progressed , unfolding its tale to an appreciative audience , yet she was no nearer to an answer as the curtain dropped for the final time after the cast had been made to take several bows . |
| 9 | Attempts have been made to map these two modes of processing on to the left and right hemispheres respectively . |
| 10 | But , as Roger Lawson of Southampton University has pointed out , more efforts have been made to counter this localism by the Money Advice Association ( founded in 1984 ) and the National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux . |
| 11 | This may come more naturally and easily to some than to others , but it is possible that where a prolonged conscious effort has been made to tap this creative source , greater understanding and appreciation result than where only little work has been needed . |
| 12 | No decision has been made to do any follow up , ’ he said , but ‘ you could stay tuned . ’ |
| 13 | Attempts have been made to represent such knowledge using a structure known as a script [ Schank & abelson , 1977 ] . |
| 14 | Few attempts have been made to set these earliest of monuments into any sort of context , but stimulating ideas of their contemporary landscapes have been proposed both by Colin Renfrew , who has argued that the tombs belonged to groups and therefore represent ‘ territories ’ , very much as the medieval church related to parish communities , and Graeme Barker and Derrick Webley , who have argued for the inhabitants of causewayed enclosures exploiting a variety of different landscapes , much as Bronze Age and later Iron Age communities did . |
| 15 | An attempt had been made to sell this document to a Sunday newspaper , and Ashdown had secured a " gagging " injunction preventing mention of anything to do with the matter . |
| 16 | Attempts have been made to explain this grading , which is not characteristic of the majority of British spits . |
| 17 | She had been made to forget that . |
| 18 | Transcripts of tape recordings have revealed a fascinating array of meanings ; an attempt has been made to interpret these in the social and cultural context of the pupils ' experience . |
| 19 | The label engraver is inappropriate for temporary labels , and a number of patchwork suggestions have been made to overcome these difficulties . |
| 20 | in this article an attempt has been made to extract some guiding principles which underline good goldfish keeping . |
| 21 | Strenuous efforts have been made to program such recognition abilities into microcomputers and several packages for manipulating and comparing spectra are available . |
| 22 | Understanding of the disorder has progressed in all these directions , and several attempts have been made to combine some of these ideas in an integrative model ( e.g. Akiskal , 1979 ; Gilbert , 1984 ) . |
| 23 | Although attempts have been made to solve these problems through the ingestion of radiotelemetric pressure sensors , these efforts have been hampered by intermittent signal loss and the inability to control the location of the capsule within the gastrointestinal tract . |
| 24 | Aims of subject syllabuses were very generalised , no attempt having been made to isolate any specific terminal or intermediate objectives in respect of knowledge , skills or attitudes to be developed . |
| 25 | However , this concealed the fact that many ‘ listable ’ churches had never actually been listed , for , as the Church was exempt from listed building control , no systematic attempt had been made to list any but the most obvious churches . |
| 26 | Little attempt , until quite recently has been made to relate all this material to the site-stratification , or to consider the social and economic evidence these artefacts could give us if related to particular periods or parts of the site . |
| 27 | Since 1973 various proposals have been made to achieve this objective , which was finally accomplished by the adoption of the Merger Regulation . |
| 28 | And whatever you finally decide to do with it , bear in mind that great sacrifices have been made to bring this to you . |
| 29 | Attempts have been made to assimilate such meanings to various pragmatic concepts , for example pragmatic presupposition ( Keenan , 1971 ) , or , as we shall find in the next Chapter , conventional implicature . |
| 30 | Since the FMI 's launch some attempt has been made to address these problems through courses at the Civil Service College , and more generally through what Tyson ( 1987 , p. 70 ) describes ‘ as a long-term process of personal development and change ’ ( see also Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 , pp. 7–8 ) . |