Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] [be] made " in BNC.
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| 1 | In general , taxes remained largely unchanged , although the budget revived proposals for phasing in by 1993 a sliding-scale reduction in capital gains tax on long-term investment , according to the period for which the investment had been made . |
| 2 | A spokesman for Foinavon confirmed the bid had been made , but refused to comment further . |
| 3 | Alongside the notice was another one from the cricket club stating that the offer to the rugby club had been made on on April 9 and , as joint owners of the ground , the cricket club had been informed . |
| 4 | New Zealand 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Don McKinnon , said that he was " appalled and disgusted " to learn that the agent had been made a knight in the National Order of Merit . |
| 5 | I think the judge 's mind had been made up before I even stepped into the dock . |
| 6 | Tea had been made and a big cake like the one served in the library was cut up in thick slices on the table . |
| 7 | In the end , after the tea had been made and drunk , there seemed nothing for it but to escort them home , leaving Ianthe at her front door and walking the short distance to the vicarage with Penelope . |
| 8 | Of course the distillery distillery had been made bigger it er put up the population a good bit . |
| 9 | It was established that the camera had been working and a video tape had been made which had been viewed by the police officers in charge of the case . |
| 10 | The point is not , as sometimes supposed , that the sovereign had been made divisible . |
| 11 | Tremendous publicity was given to the circumstances in which this movie had been made and to the way in which the director had shot some forty reels ; ‘ the eight-hour day for movie fans has not yet dawned ’ was the thankful comment of Robert Sherwood , but few critics doubted that the film conveyed much of the anger , ugliness , and brutality of the novel . |
| 12 | The administrative arrangement and supervision required for such teamwork was exactly the sort of skill in which Lewis excelled , and the hours passed quickly with the progressive gleaning of intelligence , the gradual build up of hard fact to bolster tentative theory — and always that almost insolent gratification that shone in Morse 's eyes , for the latter appeared to have known ( or so it seemed to Lewis ) most of the details before the calls and corroboration had been made . |
| 13 | When they bought it , the upstairs had been made into bedsits . |
| 14 | In the sister institute in the French-speaking Cameroon set up somewhat earlier at Yaounde , workers embarked more conventionally straight into a programme of materials production and were able to announce confidently that by March 1973 , ‘ about 47 tons of textbooks and 33 tons of documents have been produced ’ , but you can not profitably assess the success of a curriculum by weight ; many megatons of unprofitable material have been produced ( and will still be produced ) all over Africa just because no preliminary study had been made to ascertain whether children and parents wanted them , could afford them , read them or understand them . |
| 15 | The report stated that a study had been made of an incinerator at Bonnybridge in Scotland that suggested an increased level of twinning in cattle , and possibly in humans , that may have been linked with the emission of PCHs and other substances from the plant . |
| 16 | Mrs Lowe Lauri , a sister at the Royal , said she understood a request for an ambulance had been made at 5pm . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In 1918 , an attempt had been made to form a British Screen Club to influence the press in favour of British films . |
| 19 | An attempt had been made at strangulation . |
| 20 | However , this concealed the fact that many ‘ listable ’ churches had never actually been listed , for , as the Church was exempt from listed building control , no systematic attempt had been made to list any but the most obvious churches . |
| 21 | An attempt had been made to offset recent enclosures by letting out a few five-acre plots , rent and tithe free , to deserving poor , but the newer legislation continued to make things difficult . |
| 22 | As for the shed , it was in reality the body from an old motor-van , for on the sides , even though an attempt had been made to obliterate it , was the legend , ‘ H. Martin and Sons , Mineral Water Manufacturers , Castle Street , Salisbury . ’ |
| 23 | An attempt had been made to remove Mrs Smith 's underclothing . ’ |
| 24 | Dark , scorched areas suggested that an unsuccessful attempt had been made to set fire to it . |
| 25 | Up to this time no genuine attempt had been made to acquire knowledge of our early inhabitants , no extensive plan for a generalisation of known excavations . |
| 26 | But the fact that the attempt had been made at all must have given credibility to Gloucester 's claim that the Woodvilles were prepared to use force in pursuit of their ends . |
| 27 | No attempt had been made to secure the tape and its existence was never revealed to the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 28 | An attempt had been made to have the case relisted before the sentencer within the 28 day period during which variations in sentence are permitted by Supreme Court Act 1981 , S.4 ; , and if the matter had come back before the sentencer within that period it would have been open to him to review the sentence and impose a lawful sentence . |
| 29 | The Court was surprised that those suggestions should have been made , and the Court owed it to its members and to all concerned to make it clear that no attempt had been made by anyone directly or indirectly , otherwise than in open court , to influence its decision . |
| 30 | No attempt had been made to vet his suitability as a home care provider , he said . |