Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] made [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless some attempt is made to address such problems it is unreasonable to suppose that such findings have any privileged status over any other kinds of assertion . |
| 2 | Unlike Water Newton , no attempt was made to link these streets and lanes along the inner edge of the defences . |
| 3 | There were very few Black or gay workers involved in it , and no attempt was made to recruit new members . |
| 4 | This emerges particularly in the verse paragraph in lines 77 – 89 of the Introduction , in which the Man of Law is made to note certain tales which Chaucer has not versified — Canace and Machaire , and Appollonius of Tyre — which Gower did include amongst the tales of his Confessio Amantis . |
| 5 | Can your furniture be made to serve several purposes ? |
| 6 | Berge and the entire Mitterrand government were made to look complete fools when , a few weeks later , he was appointed to succeed Sir Georg Solti as head of the Chicago Symphony — arguably the great powerhouse of American orchestras . |
| 7 | And one man will appear in court this morning charged with wasting police time after a hoax bomb call was made to stop nine helicopters flying pleasure flights from the front at New Brighton . |
| 8 | At the beginning , a special effort was made to place orthodox children with orthodox families , or with families prepared to follow strict dietary rules , and to make generous allowance for other religious observances . |
| 9 | The importance of the machinery groups was so great that an effort was made to obtain full details of how they were organised . |
| 10 | However , delays may occur if the authorities have failed to make contingency plans to meet the change in circumstances , and consequently prolonged discussion may be necessary before a decision is made to use particular instruments in a certain way . |
| 11 | Villa were made to pay 12 minutes into the second half . |
| 12 | In the House of Spring Gardens case , the English proceedings simply lay dormant ; no order was made staying those proceedings on the ground of lis alibi pendens . |
| 13 | While provision was made to treat first offenders leniently , other legislation was passed to ensure that ‘ habitual criminals ’ received harsher punishment . |
| 14 | There was some media speculation that while the decision was made to protect foreign tourists , the government also wanted to secure the border against the infiltration of arms by Tuareg rebels [ see p. 38708 for details of Tuareg rebellion ] . |