Example sentences of "[been] made on [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the indictment , however , the sale was said to have been made on 7 December 1988 , and the purchaser was identified as Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi . |
| 2 | A great deal of progress has been made on equal rights . |
| 3 | These two arms shipments to Iran resulted in the much publicised release of David Jacobsen to Terry Waite on 2 November 1986 which at the time was said to have been made on humanitarian grounds following Waite 's appeal to the Iranians . |
| 4 | Active flight is used by many animals to escape predators , and a particularly elegant study has been made on noctuid moths by Roeder . |
| 5 | The decision has been made on financial conditions and not to meet the needs of the team . |
| 6 | During these early talks , progress appeared to have been made on Unionist demands ( i ) that the British government should seriously consider the possibility of an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agrement ; ( ii ) that the Anglo-Irish secretariat based near Belfast should be suspended before devolution talks began ; and ( iii ) that the normal summer gap between meetings of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference [ see below ] could be defined in advance and used as an opportunity to open formal negotiations . |
| 7 | It has also been suggested that several of these pagus centres were later promoted to the rank of civitas capitals in their own right ; examples for which a case has been made on epigraphic grounds in Britain include Carlisle , Ilchester and Water Newton . |
| 8 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 9 | A start has been made on this process . |
| 10 | But no great impact had been made on this side of the Channel . |