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

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1 Significant progress has been made over the years , including the development of microwave FELs in the US at the Naval Research Laboratory , Columbia University , Massachusetts Institute of Technology , and the Lawrence Livermore laboratory , the infrared-visible FELs built at Los Alamos , Stanford and Santa Barbara and the storage ring at Orsay , Paris .
2 There have been a number of studies of poverty in the UK that have been made over the past twenty-five years that have consistently indicated that a substantial minority of people may experience serious relative deprivation .
3 Despite the many improvements that have been made over the years , the poor pay of the farm worker therefore continues to reflect the very many constraints which surround his choice of occupation and employer in many rural areas .
4 It was clearly old , and several additions had obviously been made over the years , although they all blended together easily and harmoniously .
5 The process was never completed owing to a lack of consensus in a number of important areas and only a few piecemeal changes have been made over the years , most recently the creation of Schools in 1989 .
6 Peace had been made between the British , French , Spanish and Colonial Governments .
7 ‘ The jump has been made between the scientific debate about passive smoking and the law , ’ says Peter Cashman , solicitor for the Australian Federation of Consumer Organisations ( AFCO ) .
8 No ‘ arrangements ’ had been made between the governors and the local education authority in respect of admissions to the school ‘ for preserving the character of the school ’ within the meaning of section 6(3) ( b ) and ( 6 ) .
9 But , as is common ground , no arrangements as to admissions policy for preserving the character of the school had been made between the governors and the local education authority in accordance with section 6(6) .
10 If he was he would be bound by a pre-existing collective agreement that had been made between the union and North Star Yachts Ltd .
11 An encouraging agreement has been made between the Lithuanian Government and Poland on the ethnic Poles in Lithuania , which we support .
12 Contact has been made between the Dutch and the English hooligans and arrangements are in hand to erm effect meetings in Sardinia , yes .
13 Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis .
14 We attempt to do this in the next chapter , but before embarking on this task we must note some of the criticisms which have been made about the Braverman thesis and its implications .
15 Various suggestions have been made about the meaning of this darkness .
16 This is a matter that is worth some brief discussion , since it is closely connected with the fuss that has been made about the application of the term ‘ altruism ’ to animal as to human behaviour .
17 To counter-balance any shortcomings on the domestic front claims have frequently been made about the major contribution which financial services rendered to the economy through invisible exports .
18 Erm it comes back to the point which has just been made about the er , about the erm why have this system of election by thirds and almost backfired on , on , on , on the leader of the council yeah ?
19 General remarks have been made about the role of mass media , pluralism , breakdown of traditional morality , etc. , but theorists have not as yet developed their ideas with historical precision .
20 Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style .
21 Serious allegations have been made about the running of some private homes .
22 A wide range of comments have also been made about the simplistic nature of the grids as specifiers of where investment should be placed .
23 IMPORTANT discoveries have been made about the early history of Glasgow Cathedral during recent archaeological excavations .
24 The Parish Council are very disturbed by the decisions that would appear to have been made about the sale and subsequent development of this small area of open land and more especially by the tactics used by the Land and Properties Sub-Committee and the apparent collusion with the Planning Department to keep the Parish Council , and therefore the local people , in the dark about what is going on .
25 3.5 Let us start looking for answers to our questions by considering certain observations that have been made about the characteristics of postnominal attributives .
26 The point has been made about the importance of having local businessmen .
27 A Housing Executive spokeswoman said no final decision had been made about the case .
28 The most cheerful remarks seemed to have been made about the health of Michael Heseltine , who was making his first appearance at the cabinet since his heart attack .
29 No inquiries have been made into the 240 Ulster soldiers who sacrificed their lives for their country instead we see them being framed by our so called police force and left to spend their lives in a prison cell for crimes they did n't commit .
30 On the contrary : we see the cost disclosure regulations which have now been made under the Consumer Credit Act ( see chapter 5 ) as highly important .
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