Example sentences of "[be] made to [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Reference has been made to economic and monetary union , which have played a role in the discussions .
2 Separate allegations against Gates — suggesting that he might be implicated in illegal efforts to supply US arms and technology to Iraq via third countries such as South Africa and Chile — were also believed to have been made to congressional investigators and federal law enforcement officials .
3 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 .
4 However , an increasing proportion of audit appointments have been made to private sector accounting firms , the intention being to ultimately provide for a 50/50 split of appointments between the Commission 's own staff and the private sector .
5 Recourse has also been made to other external bodies outside the formal machinery of negotiation .
6 During the last 20 years major contributions have been made to liberal political philosophy .
7 Last-minute concessions had been made to disaffected groups to win their support .
8 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 .
9 Reference has already been made to parliamentary questions as providing an opportunity for back-bench scrutiny of government actions .
10 Responses have been made to English Heritage on the management of England 's heritage and on changes to its role in Greater London .
11 Rover spokesman Ian Strachan said the cash offer had been made to white and blue collar workers throughout the group .
12 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 .
13 Especially since 1983 a significant number of amendments have been made to Conservative legislation .
14 Professional education and training inevitably create such a social and educational gap between the providers of the services and working-class users that unless efforts are made to narrow it or close it , working-class people will make less adequate use of services .
15 Where allocations are made to individual service points , a number of factors may be taken into account in deciding the division of funds .
16 Clubs are made to standard size and are suitable for the vast majority of players .
17 Where changes in presentation are made , appropriate adjustments are made to comparative figures .
18 Despite that , surprisingly few complaints about discrimination are made to industrial tribunals each year .
19 The recent development of ‘ paid volunteer ’ schemes , where small payments are made to untrained local people to provide regular help and support to disabled and elderly people in order to sustain their continued residence in ‘ the community ’ , illustrates precisely this growing interface between private unpaid and public waged caring work ( Leat and Gay , 1987 ; Qureshi , 1990 ; Baldock and Ungerson , 1991 ) .
20 The member states have recently agreed on the mutual recognition of listings on different stock exchanges , if the related applications are made to different stock exchanges roughly contemporaneously , and this has been incorporated into UK law .
21 Such a given behaviour ( innate is the conventional term , but I prefer to avoid it if possible , for it carries along with it a load of redundant ideological baggage ) ensures that appropriate responses are made to particular stimuli without the need for trial-and-error learning , but at the expense of limits to both the range and the flexibility of the response .
22 It should not be forgotten that where structural alterations are made to licensed premises the approval of the licensing justices is required in addition to planning permission .
23 A coloured variation can be made to simple cable panels .
24 Section 8 of the Railways Act 1974 allows grant payments to be made to suitable applicants , provided that there will be a significant environmental benefit , the anticipated expenditure is of a capital not revenue nature , British Rail will carry the desired freight , the rail freight facilities will encourage a transfer from road to rail and that , relatively speaking , the wanted rail freight facilities would not be viable without a Section 8 payment .
25 However , it seems unlikely that it was intended that less disclosure should be made to private customers than to professionals .
26 The rules appear to assume that a higher level of disclosure should be made to private customers , but unless the common law rules are altered by reference to the entirety of the rules and the assumptions in them rather than to a specific rule , this result may not be achieved .
27 ‘ Did you then suggest to the management team that , although the administrative assistants were arguing for party with the statistical clerks , reference should be made to similar groups in the private sector ? ’
28 Mr Dmitry Volkogonov , one of the President 's closest aides , stressed that ‘ corrections ’ would be made to economic policy .
29 Additions could be made to existing New Towns around London , particularly Stevenage and Harlow , but also at Basildon , Crawley and Hemel Hempstead , and also to a dozen other towns in the South-east , all of which offered scope for an expansion of at least 30,000 population : Aylesbury , Banbury , Bedford , Chelmsford , Colchester , Hastings , Maidstone , Medway Towns , Norwich , Poole , Reading and Southend .
30 MS 9 What alterations , if any , would you suggest be made to existing arrangements ( in association with existing other distribution officer ) ?
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