Example sentences of "make [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , further , ‘ the circumstances in which they came to be made were never reported by journalists . ’ |
| 2 | The friends she had made were the dependable , kindly sort of people whose company would give her pleasure and support in the years to come , as their affection towards her , in these last few terrible weeks , had shown so clearly . |
| 3 | Even the crucibles or pots in which the steel was made were produced here , and the pot shop can still be seen . |
| 4 | The recommendations finally made were of a highly practical nature , but they established a tradition of careful selection which was easily glamorized in both the public and the official mind . |
| 5 | As might be expected from the above , the most extensive changes to be made were in procedures for recording audit work . |
| 6 | Now , that loving counted for nothing and all the sweet promises they had made were empty words that floated like echoes in a great grey void . |
| 7 | Hollywood had captured the British film audience and what was worse was that those English films that were made were all too prepared to ape Hollywood conventions . |
| 8 | The great majority of the vessels made were simpler . |
| 9 | The king-duke had to try to suggest that such appeals as were made were not his personal responsibility . |
| 10 | Consequently , all investors who had purchased Douglas Aircraft stock between the date when the defendant first traded and the date when the disclosure was finally made were prima facie eligible to bring a private action under Rule 10b-5 . |
| 11 | The justices either failed to make any determination in accordance with section 25(3) or failed to make any findings ( or state any reasons for finding ) as to whether ( i ) he was likely to abscond from any other description of accommodation ( part of the criteria under section 25(1) ( a ) ( i ) of the Act ; ( ii ) if he absconded , he would be likely to suffer significant harm ; ( b ) alternatively , any such findings as were made were not supported by the evidence before the justices . |
| 12 | Indeed , such decisions as were made were markedly more generous in their recognition of the legitimacy of the purposes of trade unions . |
| 13 | Captain Apgood and the prints he had made were n't even going to get a mention-in-despatches . |
| 14 | We can boast that changes not made were not necessary but without looking ahead and of course responding , we will leave our organization floundering and will lose out locally to others . |
| 15 | Among the points made were the following : |
| 16 | Review of the case notes showed that coeliac disease had not been considered in any of these patients and the diagnoses that had been made were not supported by satisfactory evidence . |
| 17 | Urban dynasties in the English towns of which studies have been made were generally short-lived , seldom surviving beyond the third generation . |
| 18 | Fourth , if the standard terms upon which the contract was made were put forward by the party seeking protection , then he has no protection under s 3 against an exclusion clause which he himself has put in his conditions , if the other party chooses to rely on it . |
| 19 | While everyone agreed the changes in living standards since the film was made were for the better , there was some nostalgia for farming as it was when they were young . |
| 20 | big scarf and you were made were n't you ? |
| 21 | My resolve not to go back into education hardened , if anything , rather than softened , as I became more and more determined that the sacrifice I had made was not going to be in vain . |
| 22 | The plaintiffs contended that the commissioner was not a court of competent jurisdiction , and that the issue before him of whether the entries in the register were validly made was not the same as the issue in the action , which was whether the road verges formed part of the highway . |
| 23 | Internment , introduced in August , was intended to take leaders of the IRA out of circulation , but the information on which arrests were made was often out of date or just plain mistaken . |
| 24 | And what impact it had made was soon dissipated when it was realized that the ‘ total ’ war was still only partial after all , and that the well-to-do and high-and-mighty were still able to avoid the burdens which fell on ordinary people . |
| 25 | Determinations were made at approximately 50–100 ft ( 15–30 m ) intervals from top Carboniferous to TD in each sampled well ; the minimum amount of section over which measurements were made was 18 ft ( 6 m ) and the maximum was 11240 ft ( 3425 m ) . |
| 26 | Whether the preface to his treatise in which this comment was made was ever actually read by the society 's members is not known , although they did order two copies of his ‘ two publications on Farriery ’ . |
| 27 | The eighteenth century is often referred to as the Age of Reason ; most people believed that the world that Newton and Locke had made was the real world . |
| 28 | One film which , sadly , was never made was a documentary proposed by Alasdair Milne , then Controller of BBC Scotland , to celebrate the seventy-fifth birthday of the Queen Mother . |
| 29 | One of the most stylish — and silliest — musicals ever made was Funny Face , a 1956 film in which Audrey Hepburn plays a Greenwich Village intellectual who travels to Paris and is transformed into a model for Quality magazine . |
| 30 | The careful diplomacy with which this point has been made was undermined when the New York Times reported an off-the-record comment at the Brussels meeting suggesting that Mr Clinton ‘ feels the compulsion to do something but does not actually want to get involved . ’ |