Example sentences of "[vb base] be make [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many attempts have been made to classify British cattle breeds on the basis of ancestry and these categories are often based on obvious physical characteristics such as horns and coat colour . |
| 2 | Few serious attempts have been made to devise diagnostic tests in reading and number for the purpose of indicating relative attainment of learners . |
| 3 | At various times proposals have been made to give local authorities general enabling powers akin to those of continental authorities — power to do anything not forbidden them . |
| 4 | Meanwhile , Knowsley have been made to wait 10 days before they can attempt to put last weekend 's disappointing 2-1 defeat at Alfreton behind them . |
| 5 | Data compression is so vital to the future of information media that considerable international efforts have been made to create global standards governing the way in which compression is handled . |
| 6 | Attempts have been made to compare various tests and to examine their reliability and validity . |
| 7 | Attempts have been made to blind two horses by cutting them with Stanley knives as they were grazing . |
| 8 | Some other general qualities of schizophrenia can be appreciated by examining attempts that have been made to identify various subtypes . |
| 9 | Laws have been made to check such deceits , but sometimes remedies have been honestly although misguidedly trusted until experience gradually showed their worthlessness . |
| 10 | Attempts have been made to assimilate such meanings to various pragmatic concepts , for example pragmatic presupposition ( Keenan , 1971 ) , or , as we shall find in the next Chapter , conventional implicature . |
| 11 | Neighbourhood Watch A neighbourhood watch has been established on Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue , Mrs. Moug has agreed to inaugurate a scheme in Baberton Crescent and preliminary moves have been made to encourage other parts of the village to participate . |
| 12 | Neighbourhood Watch A neighbourhood watch has been established on Foulis Crescent and Woodhall Avenue , Mrs. Moug has agreed to inaugurate a scheme in Baberton Crescent and preliminary moves have been made to encourage other parts of the village to participate . |
| 13 | The label engraver is inappropriate for temporary labels , and a number of patchwork suggestions have been made to overcome these difficulties . |
| 14 | Although attempts have been made to solve these problems through the ingestion of radiotelemetric pressure sensors , these efforts have been hampered by intermittent signal loss and the inability to control the location of the capsule within the gastrointestinal tract . |