Example sentences of "[vb past] be made [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The product used was made by boiling a quantity of hops with treacle , adding mashed potatoes and salt , then thickening the mixture with flour . |
| 2 | That last bomb had taken out those houses as if it had come with a great grasping fist and scooped them up and crunched them into rubble as easily as if they 'd been made of matchsticks . |
| 3 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 4 | Some graves have been found showing that bowls of food were buried with the body — this was to provide for the journey to the Underworld , which many people believed was made by a dead person 's spirit . |
| 5 | On the fifth of September nineteen thirty nine a control of timber ordered was made by the Ministry of Supply , followed by controls on all raw materials used by the furniture industry and allied trades . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Mrs Lowe Lauri , a sister at the Royal , said she understood a request for an ambulance had been made at 5pm . |
| 8 | An attempt had been made at strangulation . |
| 9 | At Christchurch , proposals to replace the Gothic station of 1877 had been made at the time of the First World War and again in the 1930s , but it was not demolished until the 1950s , when it was replaced by a modern station more successful than most . |
| 10 | However , Mr Lewis 's engagingly informal manner , and his statement at dinner that the United States ‘ would always stand on the side of justice and did n't mind admitting mistakes had been made at Versailles ’ seemed to do much to win the confidence of his lordship 's ‘ home team' ; as dinner progressed , the conversation had slowly but surely turned from topics such as the merits of Mr Lewis 's native Pennsylvania back to the conference ahead , and by the time the gentlemen were lighting their cigars , some of the speculations being offered appeared to be as intimate as those exchanged prior to Mr Lewis 's arrival . |
| 11 | Forays had been made at night ; scaffolding had been torn down and a few workers employed in building Carewscourt had been killed . |
| 12 | Eddy was working with mathematician Aram Boornazian on a study of measurements of the Sun 's diameter which had been made at the Royal Greenwich Observatory between 1836 and 1953 . |
| 13 | He spoke to the officer on desk duty who said that a complaint against Russell had been made at another station . |
| 14 | He told his wife ( and himself ) that he was going to meet Adam in order to break the news gently to him that these awful discoveries had been made at Wyvis Hall and that foul play might have taken place while he , Adam , was actually its owner . |
| 15 | It had been made at one of those long , heart-searching breakfast conversations over pancakes and imported Vermont maple syrup . |
| 16 | But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff . |
| 17 | The medical report books , as Queen Victoria 's reign approached its end , bear eloquent witness to the progress that had been made at the workhouse since those days when the deaths of the fifteen-year-old Samuel B. , and the Infant Bastard child of Susan C. had been recorded in the cold official language of the time . |
| 18 | And in some cases , most strikingly in Normandy , the landed gains of castellans had been made at the expense of the comital demesne . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | By making an alliance with Megara , Athens was clearly seeking to secure herself from a lightning invasion from the west — the threat which had been made at the time of Thasos . |
| 21 | I would therefore hold that where there is a split trial or more accurately , in relation to a non-jury case , a split hearing , any party may appeal without leave against an order made at the end of one part if he could have appealed against such an order without leave if both parts had been heard together and the order had been made at the end of the complete hearing . |
| 22 | I was being taken somewhere by car and a stop had been made at Kelvin 's petrol pumps opposite . |
| 23 | This was found impossible , and the ship was worked back to London by the plaintiff and eight more of the original crew , with whom the agreement had been made at Cronstadt . |
| 24 | A commitment in principle to aid countries in this category had been made at the Houston G-7 summit in July [ for which see p. 37629 ] . |
| 25 | This announcement had been made at a council of the ROC , but was retracted in Kiev on April 14 on the grounds that it had been made under pressure . |
| 26 | This ruling had been made at a meeting with the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | The contract had been made at the reception desk ; the notice was ineffective because it was introduced too late . |
| 29 | Yet by 1988 substantial progress had been made on all but items ( 2 ) and ( 4 ) of the agenda . |
| 30 | But no great impact had been made on this side of the Channel . |