Example sentences of "had be make [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The medical report books , as Queen Victoria 's reign approached its end , bear eloquent witness to the progress that had been made at the workhouse since those days when the deaths of the fifteen-year-old Samuel B. , and the Infant Bastard child of Susan C. had been recorded in the cold official language of the time .
2 Yet for the National Government to fight the election as a government , rather than on party lines , was a clear breach of the undertakings which had been made at the time of its formation .
3 At Christchurch , proposals to replace the Gothic station of 1877 had been made at the time of the First World War and again in the 1930s , but it was not demolished until the 1950s , when it was replaced by a modern station more successful than most .
4 But in this warm and pleasant climate she was dressed in a long black dress which looked as though it had been made at the time of Heathcliff .
5 By making an alliance with Megara , Athens was clearly seeking to secure herself from a lightning invasion from the west — the threat which had been made at the time of Thasos .
6 The contract had been made at the reception desk ; the notice was ineffective because it was introduced too late .
7 I would therefore hold that where there is a split trial or more accurately , in relation to a non-jury case , a split hearing , any party may appeal without leave against an order made at the end of one part if he could have appealed against such an order without leave if both parts had been heard together and the order had been made at the end of the complete hearing .
8 And in some cases , most strikingly in Normandy , the landed gains of castellans had been made at the expense of the comital demesne .
9 However , the SPOA general secretary , Bill Goodall , said no final decision had been made on the unit 's future .
10 Two members of the Court of Appeal held that no concluded contract had been made on the telephone ; the plaintiff had merely made an invitation to treat .
11 This aspect of the decision in Levison is open to question ; the parties had agreed the price and the date for the collection of the carpet , and it might be thought that that would indicate that a binding contract had been made on the telephone .
12 My decision not to eat had been made on the spur of the moment and was based not , as I well knew , on the terrible beating , but on the pointless cruelty of not allowing the others to go to the bathroom .
13 Over 260 people had enjoyed the evening and through the generosity of those who contributed prizes or money towards their purchase £137 had been made on the raffle .
14 Others crossed the low–and on the old Roman road which had been made on the ridge of the terminal moraine .
15 By 1889 , DWEC boasted that more than 12,600 wagons had been made on the site , and 30 new ones were being turned out each week .
16 For Miss Green , Lee 's appointment was perceived as an explicit threat simply because in the previous year , renewal of the Cassell Trust 's grant had not been easily secured and had been made on the understanding that the 1930 renewal was to extend only for a further and final two years .
17 John Buxton , director of property services for Darlington council , said savings of about £800,000 had been made on the estimate following a review by officers .
18 It is curious , therefore , that he did not immediately exploit the worthwhile gains that had been made on the right .
19 The court held that the seller was not liable for non-delivery of the goods because the contract had been made on the assumption that the crop would materialise .
20 It seemed to her that a start had been made on the rubbish ; yes , it had , and some filled sacks stood by the hedge , the plastic gleaming blackly .
21 Critics also argue that , because statements made under the lobby rules mean that they can not be directly attributed to Mr Ingham , his colleagues or Government Ministers , they are less credible than if they had been made on the record .
22 The ADSW claimed current arrangements for arm 's length inspection were proving successful and no case had been made for the change .
23 Since the beginning of the war demands had been made for the internment of naturalized aliens , and a spy mania developed .
24 An expatriate Iranian satirist , Hadi Khorsandi , later claimed in fun to have had the ear of Rafsanjani , who told him that his discussions with McFarlane ‘ were meant only for him to practise the English language … all the contacts he had had with Americans over the past year had been made for the purpose of learning irregular verbs . ’
25 In addition to the sugar cubes a large jelly had been made for the occasion , indicative of 1950s kids on a spree .
26 Somerset won the toss and batted , but within 1¾ hours they were bowled out for 88 — this after 60 had been made for the loss of only one wicket .
27 When a share offer had been made to the public in 1990 , the prospectus , which Mr Gillespie as a director accepted , stated that his shares were the subject of an option in favour of MIH .
28 Fearing criticism if their bulk supply costs were better known ( unsustainable assertions on off-peak generating costs had been made to the Ministry ) , they felt that the less guidance they got in tariff making from the Authority 's bulk supply tariff the better .
29 Felici said the document had not yet been printed , and some emendations had been made to the text .
30 ‘ The Prince did not care what promises had been made to the Englishman ; forcing Sharpe to dance would demonstrate to the Rifleman that the Prince commanded this headquarters .
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