Example sentences of "[verb] [be] make [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No attempt has been made to choose worthwhile bars that can be visited for a coffee break en route . |
| 2 | The issue of the document should not be taken to imply any commitment of any kind has been made to pursue possible solutions to the requirements described . |
| 3 | Clearly an attempt has been made to select key groups , but they are not used very effectively to date major sequences and odd conclusions were drawn , which were to have far reaching effects . |
| 4 | Since the FMI 's launch some attempt has been made to address these problems through courses at the Civil Service College , and more generally through what Tyson ( 1987 , p. 70 ) describes ‘ as a long-term process of personal development and change ’ ( see also Financial Management in Government Departments , 1983 , pp. 7–8 ) . |
| 5 | I can remember being made to kiss these strangers , even when I was say about nine , eight or nine , I can remember feeling quite embarrassed about having to do it |
| 6 | With the exception of the computer industry , little effort seems to have been made to develop new industries ; instead there has been concentration on making our existing industries more efficient and competitive . |
| 7 | An attempt had been made to offset recent enclosures by letting out a few five-acre plots , rent and tithe free , to deserving poor , but the newer legislation continued to make things difficult . |
| 8 | Questions whirled in her brain as the play progressed , unfolding its tale to an appreciative audience , yet she was no nearer to an answer as the curtain dropped for the final time after the cast had been made to take several bows . |
| 9 | A crude attempt had been made to erase three initials , but they were still plainly visible . |
| 10 | A spokeswoman for the Saatchi Collection said the sales did not signal a lessening commitment to the collection , but had been made to finance new acquisitions . |
| 11 | Attempts had been made to find alternative uses , but it was evident that nothing suitable was forthcoming . |
| 12 | Many attempts have been made to classify British cattle breeds on the basis of ancestry and these categories are often based on obvious physical characteristics such as horns and coat colour . |
| 13 | Few serious attempts have been made to devise diagnostic tests in reading and number for the purpose of indicating relative attainment of learners . |
| 14 | At various times proposals have been made to give local authorities general enabling powers akin to those of continental authorities — power to do anything not forbidden them . |
| 15 | Meanwhile , Knowsley have been made to wait 10 days before they can attempt to put last weekend 's disappointing 2-1 defeat at Alfreton behind them . |
| 16 | Data compression is so vital to the future of information media that considerable international efforts have been made to create global standards governing the way in which compression is handled . |
| 17 | Attempts have been made to compare various tests and to examine their reliability and validity . |
| 18 | Attempts have been made to blind two horses by cutting them with Stanley knives as they were grazing . |
| 19 | Some other general qualities of schizophrenia can be appreciated by examining attempts that have been made to identify various subtypes . |
| 20 | Laws have been made to check such deceits , but sometimes remedies have been honestly although misguidedly trusted until experience gradually showed their worthlessness . |
| 21 | Attempts have been made to assimilate such meanings to various pragmatic concepts , for example pragmatic presupposition ( Keenan , 1971 ) , or , as we shall find in the next Chapter , conventional implicature . |
| 22 | Neighbourhood Watch A neighbourhood watch has been established on Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue , Mrs. Moug has agreed to inaugurate a scheme in Baberton Crescent and preliminary moves have been made to encourage other parts of the village to participate . |
| 23 | Neighbourhood Watch A neighbourhood watch has been established on Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue , Mrs. Moug has agreed to inaugurate a scheme in Baberton Crescent and preliminary moves have been made to encourage other parts of the village to participate . |
| 24 | The label engraver is inappropriate for temporary labels , and a number of patchwork suggestions have been made to overcome these difficulties . |
| 25 | Although attempts have been made to solve these problems through the ingestion of radiotelemetric pressure sensors , these efforts have been hampered by intermittent signal loss and the inability to control the location of the capsule within the gastrointestinal tract . |