Example sentences of "had be made for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rent cheque was , to my surprise , a few pounds short of the amount I was actually paying — certain deductions had been made for lighting and other odd things that were technically included in my monthly rent . |
| 2 | Maggie 's room , her own place , had been made for her the summer she was eight by Phoebe , Paul and Uncle Wong . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The first half was in Malta and the second half in Monsummano-Terme and arrangements had been made for David to fly out there with Ken Pitt and perform ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ , one of the songs on David 's first album . |
| 5 | Unilateralists felt that their case had been made for them ; and they became more determined than ever to get rid of nuclear weapons altogether . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | Specialized apparatus , which formerly had been made for specific purposes in the laboratory where it was required , could be obtained from manufacturers of scientific instruments , saving much time and labour . |
| 8 | Commodore G. Paul , plans of the drainage under the green had been made for future reference . |
| 9 | Application had been made for a Winchester city grant to be spent on improving heating in the village hall . |
| 10 | A claim had been made for travel outside the normal operating area , a journey which should have been authorised before it took place . |
| 11 | They had been made for Maria by a Polish émigré , Floryan Wyspianski , a man in his early thirties , who had settled in Budapest after the war . |
| 12 | No contingency plans had been made for this eventuality . |
| 13 | He said that all Waddell 's confessions had been made ‘ for drink or money ’ but did n't add that the clandestine confession given to the two BBC reporters had been made for neither . |
| 14 | A careful search had been made for two orphaned children whom the Sheikha could foster and love as her own . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | By the time I left Heathrow on a cold , miserable January evening , arrangements had been made for me to visit Melbourne and Sydney , in addition to a fortnight in Western Australia . |
| 17 | Elaborate preparations had been made for a meeting between the two kings at Gloucester : King Malcolm was there at the appointed time , but Rufus refused to see him , and the two parted , in the Chronicler 's words ‘ in great enmity ’ . |
| 18 | Hodgson believed that the case had been made for an entirely open , competitive labour market in the West Indies . |
| 19 | Of course the trade papers revelled in hyperbole but the claims that were being made had a greater validity than those that had been made for music-hall . |
| 20 | No such efforts had been made for the children who preferred to be white or by those parents who brought up their children ‘ entirely white ’ . |
| 21 | When combined with the growing criticisms of its injustice , these findings undermined all the claims for enlightenment and scientific efficiency that had been made for rehabilitation as a penal aim . |
| 22 | Since the beginning of the war demands had been made for the internment of naturalized aliens , and a spy mania developed . |
| 23 | Somerset won the toss and batted , but within 1¾ hours they were bowled out for 88 — this after 60 had been made for the loss of only one wicket . |
| 24 | The ADSW claimed current arrangements for arm 's length inspection were proving successful and no case had been made for the change . |
| 25 | The special arrangements that had been made for the new pathway students had caused resentment among other students , who felt that they were being treated like second class citizens , and enthusiasm from staff members who had been involved in the parallel track had reassured other faculty members . |
| 26 | Moreover , provision had been made for any firm that might become financially insolvent ; in this way , systemic risk was largely averted . |
| 27 | The pattern may look more obvious after the event , but it is worth pointing out that the French war in Vietnam in 1946 is sandwiched between their bombardment of Damascus and the eruption at Setif in Algeria in 1945 and their violent repression of the nationalist revolt in Madagascar in 1947 after similar claims had been made for independence within the French Union . |
| 28 | We believed we were poor because we children were expensive items , and all the arrangements had been made for us . |
| 29 | They separated and , on their joint application for divorce , the Family Court of Australia granted a decree nisi and expressed itself satisfied that proper arrangements had been made for the children 's welfare , namely , that they would live with their mother during the week and be supervised by the father at weekends . |
| 30 | But this only confirmed the importance of AFHQ 's view , reflecting that of Churchill , that nothing should be done to provoke the Yugoslavs or exacerbate the tense situation until all military preparations had been made for full-scale action if necessary . |