Example sentences of "are made about " in BNC.

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1 The observational data reveal that qualitative judgements are made about the seriousness of particular types of crime , evaluations which are often conveyed in casual remarks made in the real-life situations of policing ‘ little crime ’ .
2 The BDMA will also investigate any complaints which are made about its member companies .
3 They are passed around and undecipherable comments are made about Deee-Lite , En Vogue and J.C .
4 Even though school generated activities are not taking place at these times judgements are made about the standard of work on display and the general state of order and cleanliness .
5 What assumptions are made about the audience 's understanding of educational shorthand/jargon and their grasp of basic skills ?
6 In doing so assumptions are made about family relationships and dependency .
7 This depressing but widely held view of life in old age is the foundation upon which judgements are made about individual worth .
8 A practical means of identifying approximate levels of output uncertainty also requires that some basic recommendations are made about how this variability can be retained , used and passed on to subsequent operations and applications using the data .
9 Alternative energy technologies will be successfully diffused only if realistic assumptions are made about the real economic situation in the Third World .
10 However , as I will show , there may be no consideration of way of life when decisions are made about the closure of particular schools .
11 In this type of short story , large claims are made about the effect of the reading experience .
12 The criterion of distortion is that statements are made about the society which by social-scientific methods can be shown to be positively in error , whereas selectivity [ i.e. primary selectivity ] is involved where the statements are , at the proper level , ‘ true ’ , but do not constitute a balanced account of the available truth .
13 Specific advice should be included in the Branch handbook and training should be provided in order that managers understand what constitutes less favourable treatment , particularly in respect of the asking of questions at appraisal , at interview or before interview because negative assumptions are made about their ability to be mobile .
14 Teachers who listen to all the conflicting noises that are made about education by the pundits will inevitably feel ( quite apart from their own ideals ) that there is no pleasing all of the people all of the time .
15 Having received the unspoken messages which every corner gives ( the condition of the toilets , the way books in the library are presented , the displays along corridors and in classrooms , the amount of litter around the building , the beauty or devastation of the flower beds , the graffiti on the walls ) judgements are made about school and schooling .
16 But unless some assumptions are made about what people are like , it is not clear why communist societies contain ideologies at all .
17 Pointed comments are made about racial discrimination within the army , the insensitivity of television journalists , and uninformed liberal political views : indeed , the anti-war movement at home comes under more criticism than the NVA regulars entrenched at the top of the hill .
18 The central task of the FMI was to alter the way in which decisions are made about public expenditure , particularly through the creation of line management responsibility .
19 Various claims and counterclaims which we will outline later , are made about the media in use here .
20 The sharpest judgments by listeners are made about local radio , perhaps because the audience identifies easily with a nearby station .
21 Something ineradicable happens and assumptions are made about kindness or fidelity — based on how often the ratchet has snapped .
22 Detailed recommendations are made about the amount and kind of training in English language teaching appropriate for primary teachers , and for English teachers and teachers of other subjects in secondary schools ; the report 's own model is recommended as a basis for these .
23 Whenever allegations are made about Castlereagh , they are , of course , carefully considered .
24 Will he accept its deep gratitude for the way in which his officials are explaining his Department 's needs so as to ensure that the right commercial decisions are made about the markets to go for in future ?
25 We receive the Court of Auditors ' report — a well-presented and well-documented publication — and all sorts of platitudinous noises are made about it , but little action results .
26 In the statistical analysis of economic data , assumptions are made about the way time series evolve , about the characteristics of the population from which a cross-sectional sample is drawn , and about the nature of the relationships between variables .
27 The project is concerned therefore with such things as the ways teachers explain new topics and concepts to children , the ways they check on children 's understanding , the kinds of questions that teachers and children ask , the assumptions that are made about what is already known , and the kinds of misunderstandings that arise and how these are dealt with
28 The answer will depend on what assumptions are made about whether the £24,000 invoiced in 1989 had been included in full or in part in the 1989 accounts .
29 Answer guide : This question is designed to investigate the way in which decisions are made about how to deal with monies and goods withdrawn from a business by the owners .
30 Moreover , there is much of interest to be gleaned from the general remarks that are made about each place .
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