Example sentences of "made [prep] " in BNC.

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1 If jade is not polished it can not be made worth anything .
2 The Fire Exhibition displays some of the discoveries that were made during the repairs .
3 Some worthwhile traffic gains were made during the 1980s , such as timber from the Scottish Highlands and drinks from several locations in the South West .
4 The cases should provide evidence on the conservative course of a court heavily influenced by appointments made during the Reagan years .
5 Whoever ends up fighting the election , Mr Kishen suggested , royal parentage will not matter as much to Bharatpur voters as the government 's abysmal record on rural development , inflation and corruption and its failure to fulfil promises made during the 1984 campaign .
6 Yet the Soviet authorities had not fulfilled their commitment made during the recent Vienna conference to resolve all outstanding cases within six months .
7 The advance was to have been made during the hours of darkness and across country , keeping away from the roads and lanes .
8 The Anniversary also served as a reminder of the sacrifices made during the wartime years by those who gave unstintingly to preserve the freedom we now enjoy .
9 Like so many of the films that were to be made during the Second World War , The Four Just Men does n't only draw attention to the nature of the enemy ; it also presents an evocative picture of just what it is that is under threat — ‘ all the roads and rivers , fields add woods and hills that make up this funny old island . ’
10 Writing shortly after the end of the war , Roger Manvell spoke of a ‘ cinematic poetry peculiar to British films ’ while Dilys Powell suggested that the films made during the war had ‘ set the English film on the path in which masterpieces may be created . ’
11 THE call by the US Secretary of State , Mr James Baker , for an enhanced European Community role in the new Europe emerging from the disintegration of the Eastern Bloc was made during an address to the Berlin press club .
12 The figure , which is slightly damaged , was made during the Tang dynasty ( 681-907 AD ) , and put in a tomb .
13 In a speech made during his two-day stay in Brussels , Mr Shevardnadze raised the questions about the consequences of a reunified German colossus that have also been posed in private discussions among Western officials .
14 Composing himself , Sir Michael pressed on : ‘ Would my Right Honourable Friend reflect on the great progress that has been made during the last 10 years in the well-being of our country and the competitiveness of our industries and …
15 Instead two further attempts were made during Attlee 's prime-ministership to negotiate a replacement for the Quebec Agreement .
16 Pulsed sounds like clicks are used for echolocation and navigation ; yelps can be a feature of courtship ; and other pulsed calls are made during distress and aggressive confrontation .
17 If history is any guide , the average length of a recession in the past 60 years has been 18 months , with the average bear market wiping out about half the gain made during the bull market it succeeded .
18 The French industry easily led the field with a huge panorama of most of the 100 or so films made during the year , ranging from the work of new directors ( such as Eric Rochant 's ‘ Aux yeux du monde ’ , a taut thriller about the kidnapping of a school bus ) to those little comedies and histoires d'amour , so beloved by the French , which never seem to get exported .
19 In the same way , as the enormous empire of Alexander the Great grew in the wake of conquests made during his short reign ( 336–323 BC ) , many mints were set up , all using the same designs .
20 The language of the local bonds of maintenance and manrent was used in the bonds that politicians , including Mary of Guise , made during the 1540s and 1550s ; indeed , if anything they were even loftier in their talk of mutual support .
21 On 12 July 1330 , during the last months of their rule , the perambulations made during the reigns of Edward I and Edward 11 were ordered to be observed in every particular , and the Forest officers in Shropshire were forbidden to take any action against the owners of lands within the disafforested districts who had taken the deer or cut timber there .
22 It obtained an injunction ordering enclosures made during the previous twenty years , amounting to nearly 3,000 acres , to be thrown down , and restraining further enclosures .
23 It was the most strident speech Mr Major has made during the campaign and represented a further attempt to underline the differences rather than the similarities between the political parties .
24 International anger and domestic turmoil threaten to reverse fragile gains made during Fujimori 's 20 months in government .
25 In the event no university appointment was made during the war , but the District appointed an Organising Tutor , p .
26 The response times are ‘ average ’ and somewhat fewer visits are made during assessment .
27 Altogether 120 referrals were made during the study year .
28 The award , which was made during the year in which both the RSC and the polytechnic celebrate their sesquicentenaries , recognised the longstanding special relationship between the parties , and marks the RSC 's contribution to the work , life and culture of the polytechnic and its precursor institutions .
29 You will have received a copy of my handwritten ‘ Functional Specification ’ in which I have tried to take account of all the comments made during our session in Paris but have been somewhat hampered by the fact that I , too along with David and Geoff , have not been able to make the latest set of disks run .
30 However , in 1983 four fragments of a geared instrument of early Byzantine origin , probably made during , or just before , the reign of Justinian I ( 527–65 ) , were acquired by the Science Museum , London .
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