Example sentences of "had [been] made to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Morris , the joint receiver at Touche Ross , said that some payments had been made to employees and priority creditors — essentially the banks — but said the chances of ordinary creditors receiving anything was ‘ only around half a per cent ’ . |
| 2 | I thought I would see what changes , if any , had been made to the career structure of the Guide Dogs for the Blind Association ( GDBA ) — a career which I reluctantly gave up to become a full-time behaviour counsellor . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | When the King 's Declarations were finally published , Richard Baxter was pleasantly surprised to find that some important concessions had been made to his position . |
| 5 | The award had been made to a couple whose two-bedroom house , bought for £9,000 in 1978 with a council mortgage , later proved unsaleable due to subsidence . |
| 6 | Peter Curd , a spokesman for NIREX said this week that ‘ preliminary approaches ’ had been made to ICI about the mine , which is some 300 m deep . |
| 7 | Rover spokesman Ian Strachan said the cash offer had been made to white and blue collar workers throughout the group . |
| 8 | Barely a week later an invitation had been made to him . |
| 9 | The Board gave its blessing to the scheme and in May 1926 , the Minister of Health confirmed that application had been made to the General Nursing Council for approval of St. Peter 's as a training school . |
| 10 | ‘ The Prince did not care what promises had been made to the Englishman ; forcing Sharpe to dance would demonstrate to the Rifleman that the Prince commanded this headquarters . |
| 11 | In insisting that no changes had been made to the original plan , his team was being economical with the truth . |
| 12 | Fearing criticism if their bulk supply costs were better known ( unsustainable assertions on off-peak generating costs had been made to the Ministry ) , they felt that the less guidance they got in tariff making from the Authority 's bulk supply tariff the better . |
| 13 | Felici said the document had not yet been printed , and some emendations had been made to the text . |
| 14 | So many exceptions had been made to earlier Navigation Acts by royal licence that it had sometimes looked as if they were intended to raise revenue rather than to direct trade , and in the 1660s there had been a few signs that the legislation which Charles had inherited from the Republic and had then extended might still be treated in the same way . |
| 15 | Jones occurred before PACE , and no reference had been made to a solicitor ; Jones had a weak intellect . |
| 16 | Only four local authorities could state how many households had been housed into wheelchair or mobility adapted accommodation during the previous year , and five could say whether any such nominations had been made to housing associations . |
| 17 | Cadfael believed it , but could imagine Herluin 's face if ever the claim had been made to him . |
| 18 | But in February 1681 many witnesses began to see more advantage in making themselves acceptable to the government than to the Whigs , and in stating that attempts had been made to suborn them to give evidence . |
| 19 | The excavations in the early part of this century have made this a difficult building to interpret , but it is clear from the published plan that alterations had been made to the original structure , which probably dates from the third century . |
| 20 | The second part dealt with mixed foil and stated that the ownership of the sellers would transfer from the foil used in the manufacture to the finished products and that these would remain the property of the sellers until full payment had been made to them . |
| 21 | It pointed out : ’ no overt decision had been made to phase out geriatric wards ; the practice grew as health authorities saw the opportunity to transfer costs to the budget of another Government Department by transferring one aspect of care to the voluntary and private sector . |
| 22 | The seat in question had already been reallocated from the PSOE to the United Left ( IU ) in a recount on Nov. 11 , and appeals had been made to the Constitutional Court against the Murcia court 's decision of Dec. 1 to hold fresh elections . |
| 23 | It was the first time that the award had been made to a Communist head of state . |
| 24 | It emerged that large cash payments had been made to four government ministers in return for relinquishing their portfolios . |
| 25 | Opening the eighth session of the People 's Assembly on Sept. 19 , Chissano reported that official visits had been made to Algeria , Ghana , Libya , Portugal , Rwanda , Spain , Switzerland , Uganda , the United Kingdom and the United States . |
| 26 | A UN team visited Kuwait in March and reported that although a deliberate attempt had been made to " extinguish Kuwait " , the country had made good progress in dealing with immediate humanitarian needs [ see p. 38082 for mission to Iraq ] . |
| 27 | Reports in early April , covering the Rao-Wickremasingh meeting , noted the Indian government 's desire to bring LTTE leader Velupillai Prabhakaran to justice over the May 1991 assassination of Rajiv Gandhi [ see p. 38175 ] ( although no specific request had been made to Sri Lanka ) , and the claim that the LTTE planned a further series of assassinations in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu to counter the state government 's clampdown on its activities there . |
| 28 | Tranchant , who had been co-owner with Tapie of an electronics firm , Nippon Audio Video System , alleged that Tapie had fraudulantly kept him ignorant of a payment of F13,000,000 which had been made to him by the Japanese company Toshiba when Toshiba bought the company in 1985 . |
| 29 | Thus much three-dimensional work was evident in the Art rooms a year later , homework had been given greater emphasis , a tentative start had been made to interdepartmental links with Craft and Needlecraft and the ‘ O ’ and ‘ A ’ Level courses were being revised . |
| 30 | It was clear from the representations that had been made to the Chief Whip 's office that there were many on the back-benches who would oppose my succession ; there was no similar anti-Macmillan faction . |