Example sentences of "have been made [to-vb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 And they have vowed to maintain their position until a decision has been made to reverse the closure of the pit .
2 A fresh attempt has been made to persuade the Government to let a county council spend ten million pounds more than Whitehall wants .
3 At some stage a clumsy , and unsuccessful , attempt has been made to erase the angel 's prominent manhood .
4 An attempt has been made to submit a Design Change ( DC ) which references modules to which the submitter does not have access to .
5 There are a few additional restrictions on the use or combination of certain measures , but apart from these limited inroads little attempt has been made to confine the discretion of sentencers by statute .
6 The effects of this pressure have emerged in at least one Modular Course evaluation study ( see Table 6.2 , Modular Course Management Structures ) , and a determined attempt has been made to configure the management system in such a way that Field Chairs participate in all Course development decisions , so that special needs are recognized and special difficulties can not be easily ignored .
7 Until further progress has been made to facilitate the identification of people at risk of schizophrenia , there is not a firm basis for large-scale intervention programmes .
8 Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops .
9 One patient with shunt thrombosis has had a CVA and no attempt has been made to recannulise the shunt .
10 In the Rohan Hours , produced for Yolande of Aragon between c.1418–25 and now in the Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris , the shroud is shown as a loose sheet , almost as if the dead man had been lifted from his bed and placed into his coffin ; no attempt has been made to mould the cloth about the body or to position the limbs .
11 John Shields , chief executive of Bedford , Massachusetts-based Computervision Corp since 1990 , has been made to carry the can for the company 's disappointing reflotation last summer , and has been fired after losing the confidence of its board of directors .
12 Provision has been made to include a general , but we do not specify that the general should be a particular Orc or Goblin warlord , the chieftain of a powerful tribe , or any given individual .
13 Provision has been made to include a general , but we do not specify whether this is the Emperor , an Elector Count , the Reiksmarshall of the Reiksguard , or whoever — any of these individuals can and have taken command of Imperial armies during the history of the Empire .
14 This brief diversion into the cultural and political history of Germany , the USSR and China has been made to emphasise the way that a state may determine artistic production , and thence art criticism .
15 Philip Tickner reported on planning applications , saying that the request to convert a barn at Pingleston into part living accommodation had been refused , and that application has been made to replace a bungalow at Godsfield , with a four bedroomed house .
16 A further change has been made to replace the concept of " full-time working director " .
17 Western technology has been made to assume a burden which it can not fairly be expected to carry .
18 Even when the decision has been made to pursue an acquisition , the client might lack good information on the market structure and competitive forces .
19 An attempt has been made to change the state of a DC which is an illegal transition ( e.g. trying to update a dc after it has been submitted ) .
20 An attempt has been made to change the state of one or more DCs which is an illegal transition ( e.g. trying to activate a dc which is already active ) .
21 Ulceration occurs because of an imbalance between agressive and defensive forces within the duodenum and an attempt has been made to elucidate the pathomechanism of this ulder by determining acid and pepsin secretion .
22 No effort has been made to enhance the room , unless you count three small prints randomly hung on separate walls , Une Baigneuse by Seurat , a Degas of a woman drying her hair and a Bonnard of another woman in a bath .
23 An attempt has been made to achieve a balance between the late Victorian building and the eighteenth-century style necessary for the exhibits ; specially woven blue Lyons silk is used in combination with faux marbre skirting boards and appropriately designed display cabinets .
24 However , no similar effort has been made to limit the growth of tax welfare .
25 Once the decision has been made to accept an invitation from the media you will need to know what form the programme is to take .
26 However , apart from some desultory comments about spurious denoting phrases , no attempt has been made to discuss the nature of such identifying references in any great detail .
27 Otherwise , no attempt has been made to equate the vegetation described in the older publications with their modern equivalents .
28 It is only in recent historical times that statutory provision has been made to cover the event of the infancy or incapacity of the monarch .
29 Surely arrangements should have been made to allow the Secretary of State to report to the House on the outcome of the consultations and on the advice of his expert , Mr. Roy Stoner of Southampton university , about the objections voiced during the consultation period .
30 The Lanx may have been made to commemorate the visit of Julian the Apostate to the shrine in 363 AD .
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