Example sentences of "had been made " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rent cheque was , to my surprise , a few pounds short of the amount I was actually paying — certain deductions had been made for lighting and other odd things that were technically included in my monthly rent . |
| 2 | A discovery had been made . |
| 3 | He was more concerned to get her last report on Michael Morrissey who , now he told her , had a grown brother in the IRA and so , as the Head put it , the family had been made unwelcome in Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | Earlier attempts had been made to bridge St George 's Channel but had failed , largely because of the treacherous currents and deeper water . |
| 5 | Mr Lightman said that at the time of the libel trial the defence had no idea that this payment had been made . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | Police reports on the night claimed that ‘ substantial ’ seizures of cannabis and cocaine had been made — thus effectively labelling those arrested as ‘ crack barons ’ and prejudicing their chances of a fair hearing in court . |
| 8 | BRITISH and Irish ministers last night ended eight hours of talks in London about the reform of the Ulster Defence Regiment without reaching agreement but claiming progress had been made . |
| 9 | However , Gerry Collins , the Irish minister for foreign affairs , later made it clear that progress had been made and he reaffirmed his Government 's commitment to the Anglo-Irish agreement . |
| 10 | The general allegations in it had been made before : Harry Phibbs had a moment of fame for calling the late Earl of Stockton ‘ a war criminal ’ on the strength of Count Tolstoy 's theories , but he got away with it . |
| 11 | The British egg industry had been made a scapegoat for food poisoning by the Government . |
| 12 | Bell Resources would not comment on whether the payment had been made or whether the BIG shares had been sold on to another party . |
| 13 | An official from the New China News Agency office , China 's de facto embassy in Hong Kong , said no progress had been made in the negotiations and that an early solution was not expected . |
| 14 | They had refused to supply details of alleged infection and this deprived the nuns of a chance to determine whether mistakes had been made , the lawyers said . |
| 15 | Mr Prescott wanted to know why the order had been made before the Safety Authority was satisfied with the non-segregation procedure ; whether the design was ‘ open ended ’ and could be adapted to separate passengers from their cars ; and whether , by acting before getting firm permission from the authority , the order had been made entirely at Eurotunnel 's own risk . |
| 16 | Mr Prescott wanted to know why the order had been made before the Safety Authority was satisfied with the non-segregation procedure ; whether the design was ‘ open ended ’ and could be adapted to separate passengers from their cars ; and whether , by acting before getting firm permission from the authority , the order had been made entirely at Eurotunnel 's own risk . |
| 17 | However , if it were merely the scale of the transactions that was unlawful or that payments had been made out of the wrong fund , it may be the council could be forced to honour the contracts . |
| 18 | The figures for applications heard by a single Lord Justice and two and three Lords Justices went a long way to explaining why , despite the facts that the rate at which appeals were begun had shown little change over the years , there had been some small increase in judge-power and that major improvements had been made in the court 's procedures , the number of appeals outstanding at the end of each year and the lead times for hearing appeals showed no real improvement . |
| 19 | Inquiries by The Independent have confirmed that while West Midlands Police were publicly acknowledging the existence of four or five complaints against the squad , its internal investigations department knew of three more in which serious allegations had been made against detectives . |
| 20 | A spokeswoman for the Saatchi Collection said the sales did not signal a lessening commitment to the collection , but had been made to finance new acquisitions . |
| 21 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |
| 22 | Dzerzhinsky had been made Commissar for Transport in the first place to deal with internal troubles among the railwaymen , many of whom had opposed the Bolsheviks in 1917 and nearly brought Lenin 's government to its knees after the October Revolution . |
| 23 | For several years , a sustained attempt had been made to inject the institutional and cultural life of the nation with market philosophies and business values , to galvanize national complacency with the short , sharp shock of enterprise . |
| 24 | The point is not , as sometimes supposed , that the sovereign had been made divisible . |
| 25 | Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda . |
| 26 | Yet for the National Government to fight the election as a government , rather than on party lines , was a clear breach of the undertakings which had been made at the time of its formation . |
| 27 | Maggie 's room , her own place , had been made for her the summer she was eight by Phoebe , Paul and Uncle Wong . |
| 28 | By 1960 , progress had been made towards establishing half a million family units . |
| 29 | This new use meant a severe criticism of the earlier knowledge , since Marx believed that the studies he was using had originally been made for exactly the opposite purpose to his ; they had been made in order to justify the oppression which Marx say as the core of the capitalist system . |
| 30 | 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 . |