Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] made [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | At that time [ the petitioner ] was asserting that there was no contract and purported to withdraw an offer which had been made on terms different from those that had been agreed . |
| 3 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |
| 4 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 5 | In a letter to Archy Kirkwood , MP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire , Sir Hector said that the survey made by Borders NFU , after Government lopped £2.25 per ewe off Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances , ignored very large compensating increases which had been made to farmers . |
| 6 | Chris Morris , the joint receiver at Touche Ross , said that some payments had been made to employees and priority creditors — essentially the banks — but said the chances of ordinary creditors receiving anything was ‘ only around half a per cent ’ . |
| 7 | She realized that she was feeling it too , frozen to the marrow in this bitter East wind which kept whipping her cloak off her shoulders as contemptuously as if it had been made of pocket-handkerchieves instead of tablecloths , her stomach hollow and aching , her head feeling light and aching a little too . |
| 8 | Margaret 's house was the same as Maura 's except it had been made into flats . |
| 9 | When they bought it , the upstairs had been made into bedsits . |
| 10 | Previously no distinction had been made between acquittals , cases which were dismissed because there was no evidence that the accused had committed the crime , and cases dismissed because no crime had been committed . |
| 11 | Some perspective on just how limited the reforms laid down in the Declaration of Rights were is provided by comparing them with the proposals for reform which had been made by opponents of the government since Charles II 's reign . |
| 12 | News from the Indian frontier included a report that Chakdara had been relieved and that a fresh attack had been made by natives at Malakand . |
| 13 | A Trotskyist group , led by Reg Groves , was particularly afraid of " sacrificing the Socialist League 's position in the Labour Party " , thus repeating the objections to working in the United Front which had been made by leaders of the League in past years . |
| 14 | He noted that most progress had been made by firms which were the most highly geared at the onset of recession . |
| 15 | Pressed by the opposition to resign , Takeshita stated : " If I quit , it will be taken to prove that … the Prime Minister of Japan had been made by gangsters . |
| 16 | It also , of course , raised expectations which demanded a fast reaction , so a system which demanded confirmation that responses had been made by partners or managers to issues or weaknesses which were identified was developed . |
| 17 | A public notice has been published under the Insolvency Act sating that a bankruptcy order had been made against owners Peter and Anne Taylor . |
| 18 | Inquiries by The Independent have confirmed that while West Midlands Police were publicly acknowledging the existence of four or five complaints against the squad , its internal investigations department knew of three more in which serious allegations had been made against detectives . |