Example sentences of "[was/were] made [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said that the company regretted the job losses , which were made following a reduced demand for certain products , due primarily to lower production rates of civil aircraft . |
| 2 | The comments were made during a live radio debate from Polam Hall School , in Darlington . |
| 3 | The first attempts at producing a problem-solving machine , or computer , were made during the Second World War as Allied scientists sought to break enemy codes . |
| 4 | Two of these orders were made under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and had a power of arrest attached . |
| 5 | Decisions were made on a co-operative basis , with potential tenants having an important voice on the management committee . |
| 6 | In the Groeger and Chapman study responses were made on a seven point response keypad with the question repeated each time a rating was required . |
| 7 | It represented in real terms an overall cut of about 9 per cent , though as allocations to individual local authorities were made on an arbitrary basis , some of them suffered much greater reductions . |
| 8 | In the medieval period the church was also involved in the brewing of its own church-ales , which were made on an occasional basis and produced a useful income supplement ; in late medieval times these were often served in the Church House that frequently adjoined the churchyard . |
| 9 | ‘ Further calls were made on the 999 system in which he repeatedly swore and mumbled about drink driving offences in the North Yorkshire police area , ’ said Mr Walker . |
| 10 | No attacks were made on the 401st Bomb Group , but vicious assaults were made by the enemy fighters on the bomber wing that was flying alongside them . |
| 11 | Not only that , the recordings were made on the very instrument for which most of it had been written , so there 's no doubt that the sounds we hear are the very sounds he had in mind when setting out his very registration . |
| 12 | Additional awards were made at a later stage to three individuals who were unable to attend . |
| 13 | Coins , especially those of precious metal , were made at a particular standard of so many coins to a unit of weight ( be this a Roman scripulum or an English grain ) . |
| 14 | Assurances that a new era was underway were made at a civic banquet to celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the People 's Republic . |
| 15 | ALLEGATIONS of gross misappropriation of funds belonging to the sport by the former president of the International Judo Federation were made at the biannual congress yesterday while the man himself lay in a nearby hospital apparently suffering from a heart attack , writes Philip Nicksan from Belgrade . |
| 16 | The same method of the die study is also useful in establishing mints , as die links between coins indicate that they were made at the same mint . |
| 17 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 18 | Of course , it would be much too simple if die links always proved that two objects were made at the same place and time . |
| 19 | Two further appointments were made at the same time . |
| 20 | Recommendations were made about a wide range of topics : relationships between school , home and neighbourhood ; youth clubs and voluntary organisations ; the health of children at school and young people at work ; and ‘ compensatory ’ further education for workers in routine jobs . |
| 21 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 22 | Programmes which were made for a general public of native speakers of the language will obviously not be graded for use with language students . |
| 23 | Arrangements were made for a voluntary tutor to visit his home to supplement his studies . |
| 24 | Demands were made for the immediate distribution of gas masks , most notably by Foreign Minister David Levi on Aug. 20 . |
| 25 | The changes that were made for the Oval game took the number of England players used in the series to twenty-three and , as Cowdrey had to withdraw with a bruised foot , Graham Gooch was appointed the fourth captain of the series . |
| 26 | Each committee was aware of the dangers of individual or mass arrest , and contingency plans were made for the automatic replacement of committee members should they be arrested . |
| 27 | Two specific claims were made for the new drug . |
| 28 | The probable sequence of events in erecting such a structure would begin with the excavation of the flat-bottomed wall-trenches dug into the chalk which , judging from the evidence of signs of pecking on the trench sides , were made with a pointed tool . |
| 29 | During the 1987-88 and 1988-89 financial years , 592 deals were made with a notional value of about £6.1bn . |
| 30 | These new regulations were made with no real reference to the membership as a whole . |