Example sentences of "[was/were] made at the [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certain unspecified revisions were made at the request of the Council of Constitutional Guardians . |
| 2 | In October Macmillan went into hospital and resigned as Prime Minister ; the implausible Lord Home , incorporating the highest virtues of the traditional Tory , succeeded him ( becoming plain Sir Alec in the process ) but no changes were made at the Ministry of Education . |
| 3 | SENSIBLY , speeches were made at the start of Sir Kingsley Amis 's 70th birthday party at the Savoy Hotel yesterday . |
| 4 | There was no doubt these eleventh-hour changes were made at the wish of Pope Paul , acting to retain the support of the minority . |
| 5 | In 1893 the following notes were made at the death-bed of a Dissenting Minister : |
| 6 | Very few territorial changes were made at the end of the war , and none of any significance overseas . |
| 7 | Production declined and exports were made at the expense of reserves accumulated in the warehouses . |
| 8 | After two cancellations that were made at the behest of the managing director , Peter Threfall , I had had enough . |
| 9 | The first portrait ( top left ) was made at the beginning of his reign , in about 30 BC , and is derived from Hellenistic royal models ( compare fig. 14 ) . |
| 10 | The announcement was made at the beginning of October . |
| 11 | The film was made at the request of a Belgian organization and will be dubbed from English into French and Flemish . |
| 12 | The original five-year ban , which expired in March this year , was made at the request of the Salvadorean government and is intended to protect the significant archaeological sites in the Cara Sucia region where stone and ceramic artifacts have been uncovered . |
| 13 | The vote was made at the request of Mitsotakis after he dismissed Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and assumed the post himself on April 13 . |
| 14 | On Nov. 13 the government postponed the constitutional referendum ( due on Nov. 28 ) to Dec. 26 ; the move was made at the request of all political parties following complaints that electoral lists were incomplete . |
| 15 | The inclusion of the article relating to troop withdrawals was made at the insistence of the leaders of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania who had reportedly threatened not to sign the declaration , so preventing its adoption , without an agreement on the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Baltic states . |
| 16 | The announcement was made at the opening of the ‘ Spassenje ’ ( Rescue ) charity appeal , whose aim is to make up the shortfall of $15 million dollars still needed to complete the gallery 's reconstruction . |
| 17 | A further attempt at a settlement was made at the council of Austerfield in Northumbria c . |
| 18 | Trolleybuses ceased to run on route 654 on the night of Tuesday 3 March 1959 , when an official last run was made at the instigation of the Wallington and Carshalton Advertiser . |
| 19 | Bland believes that a catastrophic faux pas was made at the start of the 1980s when the Scandinavians introduced the red light against the South African golfers . |
| 20 | In 1958 , Reginald Bassett lamented the fact ‘ that no study of the General Election of 1931 was made at the time on the lines of the extremely useful studies of the 1945 and subsequent General Elections sponsored by Nuffield College ’ . |
| 21 | Much was made at the time of the Prince 's engagement of the youthfulness and consequent innocence of his bride . |
| 22 | Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office . |