Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb past] be made for " in BNC.

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1 A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own .
2 Commodore G. Paul , plans of the drainage under the green had been made for future reference .
3 Just that she had assumed that the booking had been made for him and someone else .
4 She was happily thinking , Serves him right , a pity there was n't a cloudburst , when across the car park , in an area where the top managers of Vasey 's normally parked their cars , she noticed that room had been made for another car .
5 A claim had been made for travel outside the normal operating area , a journey which should have been authorised before it took place .
6 But he stressed that no formal approach had been made for the former football ground .
7 Application had been made for a Winchester city grant to be spent on improving heating in the village hall .
8 We were told that although up to this point no account had been made for the effects of new policies , the counties were at liberty to estimate the effects of new policies — either theirs or the Government 's via planning policy guidance and the work of development agencies , TECs etc .
9 Last year the ministry claimed it had made progress , only to find it had to revise its figures to reveal no progress had been made for five years .
10 Unilateralists felt that their case had been made for them ; and they became more determined than ever to get rid of nuclear weapons altogether .
11 Hodgson believed that the case had been made for an entirely open , competitive labour market in the West Indies .
12 The ADSW claimed current arrangements for arm 's length inspection were proving successful and no case had been made for the change .
13 At the English Reformation Tyndale naïvely hoped that , after provision had been made for the surplus clergy , the revenues misused by the Church would be devoted to relief of the poor , not to the enrichment of Henry VIII 's courtiers .
14 Moreover , provision had been made for any firm that might become financially insolvent ; in this way , systemic risk was largely averted .
15 Places reserved ‘ But supporters of the scheme said provision had been made for disabled shoppers .
16 Leszek Balcerowicz , the Finance Minister and deputy Prime Minister , announced on Aug. 5 that he would resign after the parliamentary elections planned for October , saying that his decision had been made for family reasons .
17 No allowance had been made for the physical difficulty of getting heavy guns over a battlefield where all roads had been obliterated and every inch of ground thrown up into huge mounds and craters by the attackers ' own bombardment .
18 An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’
19 In addition to the sugar cubes a large jelly had been made for the occasion , indicative of 1950s kids on a spree .
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