Example sentences of "[prep] [be] made [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Further attempts are to be made to improve the sound system , but perhaps Members will discover that if they want to hear better , and if they want listeners to radio and viewer of TV to be able to hear properly , they will have to stop shouting so much .
2 Opposite : The restrictions on the blue-cars of Lytham St. Annes in Blackpool meant that considerable efforts had to be made to advertise the line .
3 Arrangements will need to be made to enable the index and the file to be kept up-to-date .
4 In education two new city technology colleges were announced and attempts were to be made to extend the system of ‘ compacts ’ between business , schools and colleges.under which all pupils/students are guaranteed jobs with local firms when they leave school .
5 Proposals for private motorised travel were , on the other hand , very different , for this mode was seen to be at the root of many of the traffic and environmental problems of the experimental areas and so every effort was to be made to curb the excesses of its use .
6 The first is that little attempt seems to be made to monitor the leisure time of children , particularly in the evenings .
7 In March 1946 at Fulton , Missouri , Winston Churchill declared that an ‘ iron curtain' had fallen across Europe and he wanted an Anglo — American alliance to be made to halt the Soviets .
8 After the pilot phase of the programme at the end of the 1970s , revisions had to be made to ease the memorising of the message by changing the Ten Point message to Seven Points .
9 And finally , those children with reading difficulties need to be provided with remedial programmes as early as possible , and concerted efforts need to be made to minimise the sense of stigma they might experience because of their intellectual or physical disadvantage .
10 No attempt is to be made to harvest the timber in the area to be flooded .
11 Since the number of visitors to the Exhibition Room is noted as a matter of routine at all times of the year , in theory no special effort had to be made to record the number of potential respondents .
12 Yet it is rare for them to be made to take the responsibility for it .
13 was flashed to all mobile units across the city — with the added instruction that no attempt was to be made to stop the car while the driver 's life was being threatened .
14 Since national expenditure reached 14 per cent of the prewar level in the first three-quarters of 1922 , huge currency issues had to be made to bridge the gap between income and expenditure .
15 Somehow enough material had to be made to establish the worth of penicillin in man .
16 Despite volunteers raising £55,000 to overcome the immediate financial nightmare , attempts are now having to be made to ensure the line 's long-term security .
17 In such conditions every effort had to be made to keep the sea passages open — and safe .
18 Adjustments will almost certainly have to be made to secure the agreement of individual partners who are asked to make concessions : guaranteed consultancies for partners who reach retirement age or preferential profit sharing etc may need to be introduced .
19 It would allow contingency plans to be made to protect the public and it would apply just as much to a series of one-day strikes as a set-piece conflict .
20 Whatever method is employed to make height at the overlap , some 40ft ( 12m ) up the final corner , there is still a long reach to be made to find the hold in the crack above .
21 Only this morning we heard a rumour that an attempt is to be made to gain the approval of the commonalty to the protector being crowned king instead of Edward ! ’
22 A letter was received from the chairman of the Edinburgh Federation of Community Centre Management Committees detailing the options which might require to be made to meet the Secretary of State ‘ s intention to ‘ cap ’ Lothian Regional Council ‘ s level of ‘ Poll Tax ’ for the current year by some £25 million .
23 Many changes would need to be made to meet the needs of those learners .
24 Another series of revisions involving changes in the non-metallic portions of the masks , according to TI , have to be made to get the chip to 50MHz , 55MHz and beyond .
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