Example sentences of "[was/were] make [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Savings of £70 million overall were made through increased efficiency . |
2 | Vast amounts of money were made through Cornish tin but very little found its way to the tinners themselves . |
3 | Comparisons were made between high-production and low- production groups and it was found that : |
4 | Chafe ( 1977:244 ) criticises the typical psycholinguistic tree structures which assign agents and roles to the words used in the recall as being ‘ able to capture only certain decisions that were made during certain particular verbalisations . |
5 | The new look Oxfordshire District Health Authority 's been meeting today , it 's the first time it 's met since the changes were made under recent government legislation . |
6 | Promotions and appointments within the RUC were made on political attitudes and submissiveness to the regimé . |
7 | Forensic tests were made on various items removed from the area . |
8 | 80% of the convictions were made on signed confessions either with no corroborative evidence or with almost none . |
9 | found that when right handers were asked to look to the left while hearing such sets of words , decisions were made on non-semantic grounds significantly more often than when subjects looked to the right . |
10 | Attempts were made at frequent intervals to contact Mr Clark without success . |
11 | Measurements of peroxides and ozone were made at one-minute intervals except during routine instrument calibration , or failure . |
12 | Analyses were made at 5–10cm intervals . |
13 | Additions were made at regular intervals and there was a pleasing rule that , even if a Sunday School scholar was unable to read , a book might nevertheless be lent out for the benefit of the family . |
14 | Then with a twenty five point chalky eyepiece graticule er the counts were made at high power . |
15 | For instance , some coins of the Roman Emperor Severus Alexander found in Egypt fall into two stylistic groups , and the discovery that each group has different trace elements provides clear evidence that they were made at different mints . |
16 | Similar accusations were made at different times against all the churches . |
17 | In the eventual settlement , fine promises were made about equivalent facilities ' becoming available at Mile End Hospital . |
18 | When Austrian raids were made into Turkish-occupied Serbia and Bosnia , hajduks joined forces with the raiders . |
19 | Within the temple , and clustered round it , were craft workshops where the locally gathered and imported raw materials were made into manufactured goods . |
20 | In the past , developing countries have fallen into ridiculous debt trying to pay back loans that were made for impractical , ludicrously expensive projects . |
21 | Here the King 's exotic evergreens were housed during the winter and plans were made for extensive alterations at Hampton Court and for the great gardens at Blenheim and Longleat . |
22 | Various suggestions were made for new accompanists , and a couple of meetings were set up . |
23 | of all entries each month to ensure that they were made for legitimate purposes . |
24 | Following the SAS-2 and COS-B high-energy γ -ray observations of the Crab ( 0531+21 ) and Vela ( 0833–45 ) pulsars , searches were made for additional γ -ray pulsars . |
25 | Arrangements were made for regular ‘ round table ’ discussions between representatives of the relevant Committees in both Research Councils , for the regular exchange of information about research planned , commissioned or completed and for continued co-operation where appropriate . |
26 | During the litigation orders were made for certain of the defendants ' costs to be taxed on a standard basis . |
27 | Calls were made for immediate action and ‘ justice ’ . |
28 | After the war , ‘ unfilled ’ vinyl was used because it had much less surface noise , and a few sets of unfilled vinyl 78s were made for early hi-fi buffs . |
29 | No payments were made for political purposes . |
30 | The remaining eight were made for Polish television . |