Example sentences of "have [adv] [be] made " in BNC.

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1 James Chapman looks at the advances that have since been made in diver deployment and recovery .
2 Many hundreds of casts of these human fossils have since been made , and from them we can learn a good deal about the last appalling hours in the life of Pompeii .
3 Significant finds have since been made in the Urals and South Africa .
4 There is an enormous range of substances that people can use in order to change the way that they feel , but the safest and most reliable ones , the drugs that have stood the test of time , have all been made illegal .
5 While it remains to be seen which , if any , of these options is adopted , it is not very encouraging that in recent years a number of offers of adoption have apparently been made by national bodies , only to be discouraged by the DES .
6 There will be no attempt to define exactly what art criticism is , or to set out a theory of criticism , beyond the suggestions of some differences in writings on art which have already been made .
7 This account raises two significant issues about description ; one is parallel to comments on photography which have already been made .
8 Important contributions have already been made by David Marquand , Keith Middlemas , and Robert Skidelsky .
9 If investments have already been made in recent years , the average investor will not bother to make further improvements until energy prices begin to hurt .
10 decisions have already been made and implementation is the main activity
11 As well as the possibility of engineering plants to increase productivity , advances have already been made in the engineering of plants that are pest- , herbicide- or disease-resistant and in the development of nitrogen-fixing non-leguminous species ( Jones and Lindsey 1988 ) .
12 Great advances have already been made towards the achievement of a Europe without internal frontiers on the target date of 31 December 1992 , but even that date will not signal the end of the road for three reasons :
13 Before you even read this article I am told by the organisers that bookings have already been made in advance of advertising , so if you are a food wine and train lover and you 'd like to recapture the mystery and elegance of the world of Agatha Christie or you 've something very special to celebrate — make sure you 're on board this august for a journey of a lifetime .
14 In the private sector , hundreds of thousands have already been made unemployed by the recession and there will be hundreds of thousands more if recovery does not start soon .
15 A third of the staff have already been made redundant and directors said the future of the remaining 20 was still unclear .
16 Interim payments of between £1,000 and £2,500 have already been made .
17 Interim payments ranging from £5,000 to £70,000 have already been made .
18 The cigarette companies used this to justify tobacco advertising : they have maintained that , to reduce average tar yields , new brands will have to be introduced ( despite the fact that substantial changes have already been made to existing brands by simply altering their yields ) and advertising will be needed to make the public aware of these new brands .
19 These comments have already been made in exercise 1.2.1 in connection with the binary operation + on Z.
20 Criticisms have already been made in chapter 3 of Marx 's tendency to overemphasize production as opposed to consumption , but this was in relation to abstract theory .
21 There is also an issue arising out of orders for costs that have already been made in the proceedings .
22 Orders for payment by the plaintiffs of costs to be taxed on the standard basis have already been made in this action .
23 ( 5 ) In respect of any orders for payment of standard basis costs by the plaintiffs to the defendants that have already been made it is , as we understand it , common ground that the court was not thereby purporting to deprive the defendants of any costs which they were contractually entitled to add to their security .
24 The frequency with which references to rural housing have already been made in this chapter reflects the extent to which the housing market acts as an intermediary between the economic changes in agriculture , described earlier in this book , and the kind of social life which is now to be found in the English countryside .
25 Several references have already been made to the support of ministers by civil servants .
26 The secretary of state has given the Joint Consultants Committee ( JCC ) an assurance that the Department of Health will deal firmly with specific cases of abuse that are notified to the department , and , indeed , certain trusts have already been made to reverse inappropriate appointments .
27 " The Meeting Considering the great Exertions of the Legislature in Surpressing the Distilling of Spirits & the great revenue given up by Ministry for the purpose of providing a sufficiency of Grain for the use of the nation , which in many parts is threaten 'd with a Famine , and Considering that great Exertions have already been made in surpressing the Distilling in this Island , This Meeting unanimously Resolve Individually and Collectively to exert themselves in putting a total stop to the said Illegal Practices … "
28 Frequent references have already been made to ‘ employees share schemes . ’
29 Sales have already been made to Abu Dhabi and Egypt and for several other projects in Saudi Arabia , and ESP expects the Middle East to be an increasingly important market for their products and services in the future .
30 Villages Business manager , Alan Moult , said : ‘ Funding of the 47/3e exploration well allows us the potential to become an active player in the western Villages area , where a number of significant discoveries have already been made . ’
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