Example sentences of "mention was made [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The gun was returned to its usual place in the comer of the room and no more mention was made of the dead jackdaw . |
| 2 | Again no mention was made of the possibility of making an adoption order with a condition of access . |
| 3 | With the member countries of the EC getting ever closer , I was surprised that no mention was made of the confusion that exists in English speaking member countries between the professions of chemistry and pharmacy . |
| 4 | This may have been because my hopes were raised when mention was made of the need to consider ‘ the environmental effect of each stage leading to an alternative energy system ’ . |
| 5 | No mention was made of The British Library . |
| 6 | No mention was made of the special involvement of the Attorney General . |
| 7 | No mention was made of the place of other Tanzanian news within this Ministerial pecking order . |
| 8 | In last month 's In Benefit ( 22 April ) mention was made of the value of a benefits check when a client is being assessed for his/her ability to pay towards charges . |
| 9 | ‘ Detectives were called in to investigate the theft of the car but no mention was made of the filofax , ’ said a RUC source . |
| 10 | No mention was made of the February 1992 US-sponsored Washington accord between the legislature and President Jean-Bertrand Aristide , providing for the latter 's return to power [ see pp. 38758 ; 38808 ] . |
| 11 | At the recent meeting of Nether Wyresdale Parish Council mention was made of the large gates onto the highway which have been erected at Burnside Snow Hill , Scorton . |
| 12 | What is said is that mention was made of the ‘ so-calledrevolt of certain ministers ’ . |
| 13 | Cheshire 's assistant chief constable , Brian Baister , said in response to last night 's IRA statement : ‘ A warning was given half-an-hour before , but no mention was made of the town of Warrington . |
| 14 | No mention was made in the 1956 Defence White Paper of the possibility of ending National Service , but within the War Office a committee was set up under General Sir Richard Hull ( later to become Field Marshal , succeeding Mountbatten in 1965 as Chief of Defence Staff ) to examine the size of regular Army that would be needed , and could be recruited , if National Service was abolished . |
| 15 | We promptly bought the next two novels when they came out , and in the Bodleian catalogue I discovered Dolores , the early work of which no mention was made in the list of titles prefacing her later books . |
| 16 | I was also disappointed that no mention was made in the Queen 's Speech of one of the major consequences of the Gulf war — the plight of the Kurdish people throughout the region . |