Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] have been make [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the conclusion of the meeting , little progress had been made beyond agreeing procedural rules and setting up two working parties . |
| 2 | Tax reform had been a major campaign commitment in 1976 , but four years later very little progress had been made on this matter . |
| 3 | Apart from perhaps the use of story grammars [ Mandler & johnson , 1977 ] and the concept of macrostructure formation [ Kintsch & van Dijk , 1983 ] , very little progress has been made towards the implementation of discourse rules in NLP systems . |
| 4 | Of the present pilot sites , relatively little progress has been made in terms of collecting outcome information . |
| 5 | Relatively little progress has been made in answering these questions . |
| 6 | However , very little progress has been made in leading children towards conventionally accepted explanations . |
| 7 | Little progress has been made in terms of developing a theory of the disorder which would provide greater understanding of how and why these factors relate to each other . |
| 8 | ‘ But the important thing at this stage is that the right decision has been made for the athletes . |
| 9 | Such a way of proceeding has much to recommend it , but scant progress has been made in that direction . |
| 10 | In its report , Control of Nursing Manpower , published in February 1986 , the Committee of Public Accounts acknowledged that progress had been made by nurse managers but went on to recommend that the " DHSS should ensure that all general managers are made aware of all the possibilities for economies identified in the C & AG 's report " ( 2 ) . |
| 11 | The IMF commented that progress had been made by the CAR in the implementation of structural reforms . |
| 12 | The UK Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Patrick Mayhew and the Irish Foreign Minister David Andrews agreed on Nov. 16 that progress had been made in the talks when round-table and committee stages gave way to bilateral contacts during the past four weeks , although there had been no bilateral meeting between the Irish government and the Democratic Unionist Party . |
| 13 | Just as the governmental structure has been modified in response to political demands , so the responsibilities of government have grown as greater social and economic demands have been made of it . |
| 14 | By the time the Swann Report came to be written , some progress had been made in the debate about ‘ underachievement ’ . |
| 15 | Although some progress had been made by January 1990 in dissolving the Ministry for State Security ( the " Stasi " ) [ see pp. 37107-08 ; 37170 ] , the extent to which prominent people had been involved with the Stasi remained a contentious issue [ ibid . ] . |
| 16 | Though some progress has been made towards common accounts , differences are unlikely to be ironed out worldwide for decades . |
| 17 | However , some progress has been made concerning the knowledge acquisition problem : Amsler [ 1982 ] , Calzolari [ 1984 ] , Chodorow [ 1985 ] and Alshawi [ 1988 ] have all demonstrated the use of a machine-readable dictionary in the automatic construction of semantic relations and networks . |
| 18 | Some progress has been made in reducing negative stereotyping . |
| 19 | ‘ I trust some progress has been made in my absence . ’ |
| 20 | Some progress has been made in this area , since the input to such systems is typically simpler than the text to be processed in MT or IR systems , and the interactive nature of the application allows the system to resolve certain ambiguities by asking the user to rephrase the question . |
| 21 | Some progress has been made in recording data on the Polytechnic 's rooms and buildings , and on the teaching space requirements of individual courses . |
| 22 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 23 | Major advances in overcoming this difficulty have been made by using antibodies to distinguish between cells that seem very similar . |
| 24 | Some play has been made of the fact that the Government withdrew the right to claim social security benefits from most full-time students . |
| 25 | Further addition has been made of seventy two thousand pounds for service and negatives , introduced by the Department bill , and approved by the Policy Committee last June . |
| 26 | Meanwhile , since 1985 attempts have been made by the prosecution , against the most strenuous objections from Mr. Osman and the applicant , to take evidence in Malaysia pursuant to letters of request . |
| 27 | Management considers that adequate provision has been made for any liability which may arise in respect of the years 1981 to 1983 . |
| 28 | Careful plans have been made for these people so that when the hospital eventually closes they will not find themselves on the streets . |
| 29 | The first claim insists that once a crisp decision has been made by a body sanctioned by convention , and the content of that decision is fixed by conventions about how such decisions should be understood , judges must respect that decision , even if they think a different one would have been fairer or wiser . |
| 30 | The teaching of study skills should of course obviate the problems that arise in assignments and projects , but generally this provision has been made at a later stage of the pupils ' school career , at the sixth-form level , when a recognized amount of their time is allocated to private study . |