Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] made [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Leland claimed that 250 parts in his cars were made to tolerances of one-thousandth of an inch ’ |
| 2 | Leland claimed that 250 parts in his cars were made to tolerances of one-thousandth of an inch . |
| 3 | At first bricks were made on site from abundant local clay . |
| 4 | The SDA 's investment was made in accordance with our normal commercial criteria to help to strengthen the financial and business position of an expanding company , headquartered in Scotland , which is prepared to provide the prospect of continued growth . |
| 5 | Right This interpretation of a wireline log of a borehole in Indonesia was made by means of GS computer software funded by ODA . |
| 6 | A representative and influential attempt was made by Plekhanov in his essay , The Role of the Individual in History , where he considers what effect the characters of prominent people such as kings and statesmen have on the course of events . |
| 7 | , writes : MANY years ago I was told that Colgate toothpaste was made from pebbles from Chesil Beach , Dorset . |
| 8 | During the difficult times in the thirties , the bread and butter money for Tillers was made at Christmas through the patronage of Laidler and Littler so an offer of a regular summer season was eagerly accepted by the office . |
| 9 | On that date a submission was made on behalf of the respondent to Judge Holden that the proceedings should be stayed on the grounds of delay and the ‘ resultant prejudice to the defendant . ’ |
| 10 | Immediately after the first attack , the army set up a defence organisation … and early trials were made of respirators of impregnated cloth of Balaclava helmet shape . |
| 11 | Some finds were made by chance during digging for granite . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , there were further calls yesterday for the scrapping of local government reform following the disclosure that the Scottish Office accepted that errors were made in costings by its consultants , Touche Ross . |
| 13 | It seems that many excellent models were made in aluminium at one time , some collectors I know have superb models on display , the variety being considerable . |
| 14 | In the week before the Talks , visits were made to organisations in and around Tokyo . |
| 15 | Advisory visits were made to schools in Tanzania , Pakistan , India and Jamaica . |
| 16 | Second , in the case of the other seven indicator agencies , which did have central recording systems , visits were made by members of the research team who transcribed all of the required information on to prestructured forms . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) Where a document of title to goods has been lawfully transferred to any person as buyer or owner of the goods , and that person transfers the document to a person who takes it in good faith and for valuable consideration , then — ; ( a ) if the last-mentioned transfer was by way of sale the unpaid seller 's right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit is defeated ; and ( b ) if the last-mentioned transfer was made by way of pledge or other disposition for value , the unpaid seller 's right of lien or retention or stoppage in transit can only be exercised subject to the rights of the transferee . ’ |
| 18 | No similar proposal was made in relation to Class B applications , but it was recommended that there should be a strict three-month time limit . |
| 19 | A breakthrough was made in September in the search for a peaceful settlement of the Cambodian conflict when the warring parties agreed to implement a UN peace plan . |
| 20 | At one time a footway was made from Skinnergate to North Bondgate to save people 's shoes . |
| 21 | The Home Secretary 's reference was made following complaints by the appellant of police malpractice , an investigation by the P.C.A. and the quashing of convictions in other cases involving one of the officers of whose conduct the appellant complained . |
| 22 | Reference was made to Gloag on Contract ( 2nd edn ) , pp 617 and 618 , which respectively state : ‘ Stipulations as to time of payment are not treated as material conditions of the contract , except in very special cases ’ , and , ‘ [ The ] question is whether the conduct of the party in default is such as to indicate that he intends to repudiate his contractual obligations . ’ |
| 23 | Reference was made to Collard v Carswell ( 1893 ) 20 R ( HL ) 47 , Lord Chancellor Herschell , at p 48 , and to Forslind v Bechely-Crundall , 1922 SC ( HL ) 173 , 1922 SLT 496 , in which Lord Shaw of Dunfermline , at p 509 , said : ‘ The accent of the psychology is not upon the mind of the person who is defiant or heedless of his obligations , but , as Lord Herschell put it , upon the mind of the person who is suffering from the defiance . ’ |
| 24 | Reference was made to Hector v. Attorney-General for Antigua and Barbuda [ 1990 ] 2 A.C. 312 where the constitutional validity of a statutory provision creating a criminal offence was in issue . |
| 25 | Particular reference was made in argument to sections 42 to 49 and sections 230 to 237 , and to the powers of an administrator or administrative receiver as set out in Schedule 1 to the Act of 1986 . |
| 26 | The suggestion , mentioned earlier , that there is a hierarchy of hairpin vortices was made in part to help with the first of these problems . |
| 27 | No further colonization could be attempted while the war with Spain went on , partly because ships bound for the North American seacoast were forced by the prevailing winds to go uncomfortably far north or dangerously close to the Spanish settlement in the south , but interest revived after peace was made with Spain in 1604 . |
| 28 | The deeply unpopular Somerset was overthrown in October , and power passed to those who had opposed the war ; his successor , John Dudley , earl of Warwick , was only recognizing the inevitable when he gave up Boulogne at the same time as peace was made with Scotland in March 1550 , when the last stronghold held by the English , Lauder , capitulated . |
| 29 | The primarily Scottish Nova Scotia Company had established itself on the Atlantic seacoast north of Maine and the Canada Company had in 1628 captured the recently established French base at Quebec , but both of them had to give up their territory when peace was made with France in 1632 , and they faded into financial oblivion . |
| 30 | A major discovery was made at Jabirn in the Timor Sea in 1983 but it has been estimated that similar discoveries on a yearly basis would be necessary if increasing oil imports are not to be required in the future to maintain present levels of consumption . |