Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [was/were] made [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When one recollects that bequests were made in the hope of securing the prayers of beneficiaries for the donor 's soul , it may be assumed that bridges , and also roads , were in sufficient use for such gifts to be regarded as a good piece of spiritual investment . |
| 2 | It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health . |
| 3 | The person conducting the interview may seek to produce the video recording as evidence that statements were made by the child which support a diagnosis of sexual abuse . |
| 4 | The principal arguments for a policy of CPD were advanced in the Brett-Jones Report of 1978 and although none could be refuted in a responsible way , it was not until 1 January 1981 that Regulations were made by the General Council of the RICS to make compulsory , and to regulate , members ' Continuing Professional Development . |
| 5 | It was there that presentations were made to the winning team by Andrew Steel , Managing Director . |
| 6 | Production declined and exports were made at the expense of reserves accumulated in the warehouses . |
| 7 | The operation of the twenty-two disciplinary offences was suspended and concessions were made on the fees for signing on and off . |
| 8 | The Don canal was made to connect Sheffield with the Humber estuary , and various branches and inter-connections were made to the system before the coming of the railways , to make those canals serving the coal-mining and iron and steel industries some of the busiest commercial waterways in the country . |
| 9 | More than 10,000 telephone calls and visits were made to the Samaritans in Darlington last year . |
| 10 | The sixth application was dismissed as an abuse of the process of the court in November 1991 , and directions were made about the procedures to be adopted in future applications . |
| 11 | Detailed studies of the distribution of animals and plants were made throughout the nineteenth century , often employing amateurs to do the actual surveying under the leadership of a few professionals . |
| 12 | A succession of other legal disputes went unresolved , and appeals were made to the parlement of Paris . |
| 13 | Ritual offerings of meat , spices and wines were made by the mortal family to propitiate the restless spirit . |
| 14 | The cash figure in the balance sheet might include both capital and operating cash : if a debenture is issued but the resulting cash has not yet been invested in fixed assets , then the cash will perhaps be shown in the cash book — this is capital cash ; if profits were made in the current year , some of these profits might take the form of cash — this is operating cash . |
| 15 | The Statute of the Council of Europe was signed as the Treaty of Westminster , one month after the establishment of NATO , on 5 May 1949 by representatives of 10 states , and arrangements were made for the organisation to establish permanent offices in Strasbourg . |
| 16 | In other words , stylistic change is at a premium ; in Gombrich 's book the dramatic innovations of Caravaggio do well , but a distinguished painter , say Bonnard , who is not so bold or challenging an artist was omitted until additions were made to the text in 1971 . |
| 17 | The local City Council set up a committee of inquiry to investigate the policing arrangements for the visit and complaints were made to the Police Complaints Authority . |
| 18 | Both ships stopped for an hour while repairs were made to the launch 's engines . |
| 19 | Miss Southworth said the woman had made up the story to friends and was then forced to go through with it , after complaints were made to the police . |
| 20 | According to the French Minister of Health ( who stepped in when attempts were made by the anti-abortion lobby around the world to stop it being sold ) , this pill is the ‘ moral property of women ’ . |
| 21 | And in accord with this prediction , when recordings were made from the motor neurons within the abdominal ganglion during habituation , it was found that there was indeed a progressive decline in the firing rate of the cells as habituation occurred . |
| 22 | When arrangements were made in the summer of 1278 to establish two permanent circuits of the general eyre he was one of the justices appointed to the ‘ northern ’ circuit and he sat as a junior justice in every eyre of that circuit down to 1288 . |
| 23 | The more major fragmentation occurred as developments were made in the control of the machine tools themselves . |