Example sentences of "be made to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elsewhere reference has been made to the difference between Spanish style and flamenco style ( see page 59 ) which belongs to the Spanish gipsies from whom has also developed what is known as gipsy character dance . |
| 2 | Already ‘ one or two phone calls ’ have been made to the Test and County Cricket Board , according to Dave Hill , the Australian whose production of World Series Cricket for Channel 9 ( remember floodlights , yellow balls and pink shirts ? ) ruffled so many establishment figures and who is now Murdoch 's man running Eurosport . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | The following appointments have been made to the Judicial Studies Board : Mr Justice Johnson , in succession to Lord Justice Butler-Sloss , ( and will also serve as co-Chairman of the Civil and Family Committee ) ; Judge Oddie , in succession to Judge White , ( and will continue to serve as a member of the Civil and Family Committee ) ; Mr Registrar Angel , a Family Division Registrar , ( who will also continue to serve on the Civil and Family Committee ) . |
| 5 | Berle told Roosevelt in his official report on the conference that despite its failure to decide the main issue ( for which he blamed Swinton and Beaverbrook ) , a great deal had been achieved , and positions were made known : ‘ A substantial beginning has been made to opening the air for commerce . |
| 6 | Some dubbed it a cosmetic exercise which did not go far enough and said too many concessions had already been made to industry . |
| 7 | In order to explain why offences of violence are regarded so seriously , reference has been made to the value a of privacy and physical integrity . |
| 8 | It is perhaps in recognition of the awkward position of English law that exceptions have been made to the marital-rape exemption in recent years . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Reference has already been made to the heavy penalties imposed for waste , assart and purpresture , and in respect of agistment , escapes and the lawing of dogs . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | We would advise that the policy has therefore been cancelled and a full refund of premiums for 1991 has been made to your mortgage account . ’ |
| 13 | Earlier in this chapter , reference has already been made to the decline in WEA activity in Bedfordshire and by the end of the war there were fewer classes in the county than had existed in 1935 and most of these were concentrated in the urban areas such as Bedford , Dunstable , Leighton Buzzard and Luton . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The bulk of the transfers have been made to the governments of the less developed regions to be used at their own discretion . |
| 17 | Quantifying compensation may be complicated if an ex gratia payment has been made to you . |
| 18 | Some alterations have been made to it , such as substituting a cast-iron beam for the original timber one , but it is basically intact as built , and interested visitors can see it on application to the Coal Board 's local area office . |
| 19 | Several modifications have been made to this bridge in the century and a half since its completion , but it remains basically the same bridge that Telford designed , and was one of the great civil-engineering achievements of the period . |
| 20 | Only passing accounts of his life and work have appeared in the literature , and while brief references have been made to Nicholson 's excellence as a chemist , these have not done justice to his achievements , or set them against the London localities where they occurred . |
| 21 | Attempts have been made to measure plasma prostacyclin levels indirectly by radioimmunoassay measurement of 6-keto-PGF 1 α , a stable metabolite of prostacyclin . |
| 22 | Reference has already been made to the intercropping of trees with cereals , legumes , etc. in many African agricultural systems ( section 4.4.1 ) to increase food production ad as a means of soil conservation , and to the planting of trees ( section 7.2.3 ) to combat erosion and desertification . |
| 23 | In the former , agencies such as local enterprise boards , or economic development units , have attempted to encourage firms to develop or invest with the help of limited assistance from councils — attempts have been made to ‘ lever ’ additional funds from the private sector ( Clarke and Cochrane , 1987 ) . |
| 24 | Reference has already been made to some of these changes . |
| 25 | In the course of the MINSE project , comments had also been made to the effect that , although OICs were able to purchase a microcomputer if there were sufficient funds available , little thought had been given to how these might be applied , or to the staff training needs . |
| 26 | Neither viewpoint is absolute , but some reference should have been made to several recent studies of evolutionary rates in the Pleistocene mammals of Europe . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | According to this book , contributions of goodness have been made to the Created God , albeit unknowingly , by the countless thousands of individuals who , through many centuries have deliberately lived their lives constantly expanding , supporting and practising those human traits universally acknowledged as virtues . |
| 29 | Dunlop 's claim could not be supported by any record of a lump-sum payment having been made to Kilpatrick . |
| 30 | Previous reference has been made to the slowly increasing proportion of graduates entering the Division , and it is interesting to note that in 1984 of all members achieving corporate membership of the RICS , 65.6% did so by exempting degree or diploma courses , but of building surveyors only 51.1% joined the Division by this method , the lowest proportion of the three main Divisions . |