Example sentences of "[noun pl] were make [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed .
2 Most of these covers were made in the late eighteenth century or the early nineteenth , and often give away their date in their names .
3 More significant concessions were made in the 1920s , when a majority of the Legislative Council was elected by a franchise limited by ethnicity , education and wealth .
4 Injections were made into the vitreous by placing the needle just posterior to the corneoscleral junction , and the success of the injection was confirmed by ensuring that the pupillary response was eliminated .
5 Clement Attlee announced that the British Empire and Commonwealth , being based on Christian principles , was ‘ the exact contrast to the Nazi conception of a world order ’ , which was the expression of the creed of Antichrist , and countless other speeches were made in the same vein .
6 Demands were made for the immediate distribution of gas masks , most notably by Foreign Minister David Levi on Aug. 20 .
7 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 .
8 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 .
9 Recognition of Carver 's importance was stimulated when an edition of the extant works was published in 1959 ; several recordings were made in the late 1980s , and a complete cycle of the masses and motets was performed in Glasgow in July 1990 .
10 Indirect criticisms were made of the incumbent leadership who were themselves struggling to maintain legitimacy during this period when the reforms had run into difficulties .
11 Most of these criticisms were made in the 1960s and 1970s .
12 Two further appointments were made at the same time .
13 New appointments were made to the key ministries of the Interior ( Abdellatif Rahal ) , Economy ( Hocine Benissad ) and Foreign Affairs ( Lakhdar Brahimi ) .
14 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 .
15 Comparisons were made of the following indices of bowel function : stated frequency of defecation per week , mean interval between recorded defecations , a score for stool form , and calculated whole gut transit time .
16 This led to a public outcry , comparisons were made to the Nazi era and , in November , FDP ministers left the coalition .
17 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 .
18 As my hon. Friends have said , the original calculations were made by the Inland Revenue and had nothing to do with the borough of Newham .
19 After these statements were made by the Financial Secretary the Bill passed into law without further discussion on this aspect of the matter .
20 A decade later , parallel experiments were made with the isolated cells in culture , with similar results .
21 Laboratory experiments were made in the 1950s to discover what might happen to these particular chemical constituents under such conditions .
22 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 .
23 Two other changes were made to the 24-member Cabinet : Mongi Bousnina replaced Moncer Rouissi at the Ministry of Culture , and Salah Jebali was appointed to head a newly-created Ministry of Infrastructure and Land Management .
24 He also issued a tough statement when changes were made to the Natural Heritage ( Scotland ) Bill in the House of Lords which appeared to diminish the status of Sites of Special Scientific Interest .
25 And that defined the permanent character of the United States and then what happened subsequently er was of course that the , in the twentieth century , er America evolved into an industrial power erm and certain changes were made to the American constitution which had a profound impact .
26 More changes were made to the Holy Week liturgy .
27 Significant changes were made by the Supreme Court Act 1981 in the arrangements for the management of the business of the civil division of the Court of Appeal .
28 Ritual offerings of meat , spices and wines were made by the mortal family to propitiate the restless spirit .
29 A few other studies were made in the 1970s , by women , about the problems which unions raised for women as well as the problems which women raised for the unions ( Cunnison , 1983 ; Coote and Kellner , 1981 ; Stageman , 1980 ; Harrison , 1969 , 1980 ) .
30 A major problem with early computers was the question of reliability ; pessimistic forecasts were made of the mean time to failure of assemblies of several thousand valves , and a prime consideration in designing a computer was to make it as simple as possible .
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