Example sentences of "had been made [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the first attempts had been made to adapt the Wright Brothers ' invention as a lethal instrument , pilots went aloft with steel darts and took pot shots at one another with service revolvers . |
| 2 | Owing to her advanced pregnancy and Stephen 's frequent absences on business , no efforts had been made to appoint a governess for Victoria . |
| 3 | But in April 1980 the lengthy trial proceedings ground to a halt because of allegations that attempts had been made to bribe the jury . |
| 4 | He recognized that some attempts had been made to cultivate the seeds of Natural Reason into something worthwhile . |
| 5 | Some attempt had been made to turn the area immediately in front of the door into a rose-arbour by the erection of a bit of trellis work at right angles to the wall , and he crouched behind the little protection this afforded . |
| 6 | He said the US authorities were paying a substantial part of the costs incurred by the wives in preparing their legal challenge , but no provision had been made to meet a costs order in favour of Cherwell council . |
| 7 | Some attempt had been made to straighten the limbs and that was all . |
| 8 | He felt that his trust and position had been taken advantage of : that he had been made to look a fool . |
| 9 | No attempt had been made to secure the tape and its existence was never revealed to the Crown Prosecution Service . |
| 10 | During the crisis which preceded the Civil War , an attempt had been made to tie the Crown to regular Parliaments with the Triennial Act of 1641 , but this Act had been repealed in 1664 and it was not until 1694 that an Act guaranteeing triennial Parliaments was passed . |
| 11 | Despite the underlying racism of so many , a deliberate effort had been made to attract the ethnics into the Party , if only to deny their votes to others . |
| 12 | Successful efforts had been made to bring the work of the schools for pupils aged between eleven and thirteen closer together , and to encourage co-operation among the various subject specialists — most of whom eyed one another warily , hedging their bets until decisions were taken . |
| 13 | It was at the bottom of a 5ft deep pit and no attempt had been made to disguise the body . |
| 14 | The experience of the River Avon project which was raised by one of the West Lothian members illustrated that while a particular effort had been made to inform the West Lothian secretary , the mechanism was still not right . |
| 15 | Various improvements and realignments to the river had been made to aid the flow to the mill , but by the mid-1880s , steam power was also in use . |
| 16 | An attempt had been made to have the case relisted before the sentencer within the 28 day period during which variations in sentence are permitted by Supreme Court Act 1981 , S.4 ; , and if the matter had come back before the sentencer within that period it would have been open to him to review the sentence and impose a lawful sentence . |
| 17 | The analysts also said that Shell might have to write off another £37 million , though the company claimed that efforts had been made to ensure the situation would not arise again . |
| 18 | For some years attempts had been made to prohibit the sale of firearms and a Pistols Bill had been presented to Parliament in 1893 . |
| 19 | In these private centres , applications had been made to run a total of almost 700 individual modules . |
| 20 | It was satisfied that every reasonable effect had been made to obtain a certificate of service . |
| 21 | And there the newsreader told the British people that efforts had been made to obtain an interview with the local Plant Manager , who had declined to comment . |