Example sentences of "[be] make about " in BNC.

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1 It has been on trial at nine branches and no decision has been made about whether to extend the service .
2 An investigation was considered to have been concluded once a judgement had been made about whether the allegation(s) had been substantiated or not and decisions made about how to proceed to an outcome , for example , to close the case , offer treatment , call a case conference , etc .
3 No film has yet been made about LSD .
4 By far the most noise has been made about Die Gruenen .
5 Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis .
6 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 .
7 The same case could , of course , have been made about listeners ' attitudes to the number and length of speeches to which they were now to be subjected .
8 This hypothetical situation illustrates some of the difficulties likely to be experienced when considering the North-South divide and shows why so many conflicting claims have been made about this question .
9 Various suggestions have been made about the meaning of this darkness .
10 In the same way comments have been made about John 's father .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 ?
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 An important point , with a view to interpreting the Act of 1968 and understanding comments , both judicial and academic , which have been made about it , is the fusion in clause 12 and section 15 of larceny by a trick and obtaining by false pretences .
17 If public medical statements have been made about a man 's deleterious effect on his son 's psyche there is bound to be anxiety and embarrassment attendant on their meeting .
18 A similar conclusion has been made about many of the private research institutes , like the Rand Corporation and the Brookings and Hudson Institutes .
19 Serious allegations have been made about the running of some private homes .
20 A wide range of comments have also been made about the simplistic nature of the grids as specifiers of where investment should be placed .
21 The remarks that had been made about him were confusing .
22 IMPORTANT discoveries have been made about the early history of Glasgow Cathedral during recent archaeological excavations .
23 Claims have been made about Taiwan and South Korea , but tremendous amounts of US aid have been pumped into those countries for political purposes .
24 The Minister will be aware that certain allegations have been made about incidents in homes in Gwynedd , and in other parts of Wales , during recent months .
25 Allegations of many kinds have been made about that matter and certain aspects of the command economy .
26 If the protests that have been made about cuts in training places on Merseyside are simply synthetic protestations , as the Minister said earlier , can he explain why projects such as the Hexagon project on Merseyside face closure ?
27 I remind him that there has been criticism historically when statements have been made about incidents in Great Britain , when it was commented that similar statements had not been made in the context of Northern Ireland .
28 The points that have been made about public expenditure are as far from the truth as one can imagine .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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