Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have been make by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them . |
| 2 | He also claims that it is desirable to think ‘ intuitively ’ and not by logical steps , but again logic is the exception not the rule in human thought and all the greatest scientific discoveries have been made by the use of informed intuition , Ornstein believes that the right hemisphere is underdeveloped in Western man and the spiritual growth depends on expanding its activities . |
| 3 | At least four official statements have been made by the United Kingdom . |
| 4 | In determining the level of planned capacity five years ahead , separate estimates had been made by the BEA commercial department ( taking into account national economic trends ) , the engineers ( using simple arithmetical extrapolation of past growth ) , and the Area Boards ( using their local knowledge ) , Their forecasts had one thing in common : they all under-estimated the growth ( the commercial department 's forecasts being least , and the Area Boards ' most , accurate ) . |
| 5 | Similar findings have been made by others although in the different studies , the time of onset of the plateau has varied from three to seven years . |
| 6 | There are , as yet , no estimates based on hard research but some back-of-the-envelope guesses have been made by David Miles , a former Bank of England economist now at Birkbeck ( 1 ) . |
| 7 | Even non-silicon zeolites have been made by researchers at Union Carbide in the US . |
| 8 | Janis argues that some of history 's most horrific decisions have been made by groups . |
| 9 | In the telephone route-following task an attempt to combine the strengths of the experimental and naturalistic approaches has been made by using methods of discourse analysis to illuminate the communication success and failure of our child subjects . |
| 10 | He said that great strides had been made by BNFL since 1986 with particular successes in the areas of UK and overseas customer relationships , relations with the DoE and the regulators and a ‘ vast improvement ’ in media relations through BNFL 's policy of honesty and openness . |
| 11 | Later attempts to define climatically related morphogenetic regions have been made by a number of people , e.g. Peltier ( 1950 ) , Budel ( 1963 ) and Tricart and Cailleux ( 1972 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ Considerable savings have been made by improving efficiency in our central adminstration where savings of 6.3% have been achieved . ’ |
| 13 | Token bets had been made by a few on the opposing Southern team , so Rex was able to ‘ collect ’ from long time colleagues as well as being presented with a cheque b Mr Ellis . |
| 14 | One problem with this experiment is that it presented subjects with a very artificial task and , not surprisingly , various criticisms have been made by authors such as Hupet and Le Boudec ( 1977 ) and Schultz and Kamil ( 1979 ) . |
| 15 | Following the Three Mile Island accident and especially after the Chernobyl accident , various responses have been made by national governments and the International Atomic Energy Agency . |
| 16 | Heroic efforts have been made by inventors to push their ideas through bureaucratic mazes . |
| 17 | Not surprisingly , as successful communication involves the transfer of information , and that transfer presupposes a successful evaluation of what is known and not known at the outset , a number of general suggestions have been made by theorists and methodologists advocating a communicative approach . |
| 18 | The war could not be won because so many irredeemable mistakes had been made by a leadership unwilling to accept expert advice ; recent decrees and ‘ many speeches ’ were said to have contradicted the ‘ true will of the people ’ ; and the leaders had underestimated Russia and other countries . |
| 19 | Under the law , there is no truancy if a child has the school 's permission to be absent or if his/her absence from school is occasioned by : sickness of the child ( not of his/her parent ) ; or unavoidable cause affecting the child and generally involving an emergency ; or a day of religious observance ; or ‘ the school … is not within walking distance … and no suitable arrangements have been made by the LEA for ( the child 's ) transport … or for boarding accommodation ’ . |
| 20 | However , recent estimates have been made by Adrian Sinfield and Neil Fraser on the assumption that the current occupational distribution of the unemployed , and of unfilled vacancies , has not changed since they were last published , in 1982 and 1985 , respectively ( note supplied by Adrian Sinfield and Neil Fraser , 1 June 1987 ) . |
| 21 | This and other recommendations have been made by a four-member panel of distinguished heart experts , forced a year ago by the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute to investigate the episode . |