Example sentences of "[noun pl] made " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employers made claims about the familial nature of their businesses and their warm relationship with their employees . |
| 2 | Case studies showed that employers made savings arising ‘ mainly from temporary workers having less beneficial ( or no ) entitlement to holiday and sickness pay , and particularly to occupational pensions ’ ( Meager , 1986 , p. 12 ) . |
| 3 | I 've had a few copies made to be on the safe side : solicitors , banks … you know . |
| 4 | These were then collated and summarised by a planning group with copies made available for all in order to encourage further dialogue , debate and reflection at a second conversation the following evening . |
| 5 | The third document was another letter , which I got laser printed and 100 copies made , to all the residents within a quarter mile of Donkey Lane , telling them who we were and what was going to happen , and apologising in advance for any inconvenience ( including the lorries ) . |
| 6 | The French fabliau in England may take one of two basic forms : fabliaux composed in Old French in France of which copies made their way to England , and fabliaux composed ( in most cases re-composed ) in the Anglo-Norman dialect , presumably in England . |
| 7 | Faggots made today are not a patch on Mrs. Farrer 's . |
| 8 | This practice of employing deputies made possible bureaucratic pluralism . |
| 9 | It became a matter for public debate , newspaper articles were written , television programmes made , and the London Evening Standard sponsored Simpson 's planning application to the City . |
| 10 | As TV poured over the surface of everyday life its programmes made fewer and fewer concessions to pre-existing forms , institutions , media , manners . |
| 11 | Some Poor Law Guardians made attempts to enforce the new legal obligations which the 1834 Poor Law imposed on children to support their parents with money . |
| 12 | ‘ Not long after , the Athenians made a peace with the Spartans and their allies for thirty years , giving up Nisaia , Pegai , Troizen and Achaia , their possessions in the Peloponnese ’ ( Thuc. i.115.1 ) . |
| 13 | Old acquaintances were renewed and new contacts made . |
| 14 | Here , thousands of QSL cards pour in each week for sorting and onward transmission in bulk to other bureaux at home and abroad , for eventual delivery to individual amateurs in confirmation of radio contacts made . |
| 15 | Special commemorative QSLs for all contacts made . |
| 16 | Contacts made locally , from a string of hill villages overlooking the camps , and in Damascus and Tunis , failed to secure Palestinian agreement to disarm and withdraw to the camps . |
| 17 | Both boy finalists are members of this scheme and they exemplified the improvements made . |
| 18 | After the car reaches the production line customer compliments and complaints are monitored , and improvements made accordingly . |
| 19 | Much of this critique has been taken on board and many improvements made . |
| 20 | A working group made up of clinicians , consultants , GPs and other health professionals has looked at a number of options and has recommended that services be consolidated , and accommodation improvements made , at the Chest Hospital . |
| 21 | This was not well received , and in fact Blackett 's sympathy with the Russians made it impossible for him to get a visa to visit the US during the McCarthy years . |
| 22 | Russians made repeated attempts to break through the encircling enemy — only and always to be driven back by the murderous fire of Francois 's 1st Corps , which barred the line of retreat along the route by which they had earlier advanced . |
| 23 | Although scarcely under challenge from other national groups , Russians made up a steadily diminishing proportion of the total population over the postwar period and the Russian Republic included many of the Soviet Union 's poorest farmland and most dismal cities , creating at least the impression that it was subsidising developments in more prosperous non-Russian areas . |
| 24 | All summer English cricket has been highly suspicious about how the Pakistanis made the old ball swing about so violently . |
| 25 | The calls come via three sources : personal requests made by members of the public at the station 's enquiry desk ; telephone calls made directly to the station ; and messages relayed from BRC , the central communications network . |
| 26 | BT had to pay contest organisers 90 per cent of calls made . |
| 27 | Telephone — Charge for any telephone calls made . |
| 28 | ‘ There was an outgoing call dialling every second — there were thousands of calls made , ’ he said . |
| 29 | Even if mothers-in-law made every effort to be scrupulously careful in what they said or did , they worried that the children still saw them simply as interfering busybodies . |
| 30 | Even if the courts purported only to be concerned with the fairness of the process of policy making and not with the substance of the policies made , it is very difficult to draw a sharp distinction between process and substance : complaints about process are usually , at bottom , complaints about substance — ‘ if we had been treated fairly , the outcome would have been different ’ . |