Example sentences of "were make [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It said that the company regretted the job losses , which were made following a reduced demand for certain products , due primarily to lower production rates of civil aircraft . |
| 2 | The comments were made during a live radio debate from Polam Hall School , in Darlington . |
| 3 | Decisions were made on a co-operative basis , with potential tenants having an important voice on the management committee . |
| 4 | Coins , especially those of precious metal , were made at a particular standard of so many coins to a unit of weight ( be this a Roman scripulum or an English grain ) . |
| 5 | Assurances that a new era was underway were made at a civic banquet to celebrate the thirty-fifth anniversary of the People 's Republic . |
| 6 | Recommendations were made about a wide range of topics : relationships between school , home and neighbourhood ; youth clubs and voluntary organisations ; the health of children at school and young people at work ; and ‘ compensatory ’ further education for workers in routine jobs . |
| 7 | The old Gothic was felt to be as inadequate in the 1890s as the old meeting-house had been in the 1860s so plans were made for a new building worthy of their pastor whose fame was rapidly increasing . |
| 8 | Programmes which were made for a general public of native speakers of the language will obviously not be graded for use with language students . |
| 9 | Arrangements were made for a voluntary tutor to visit his home to supplement his studies . |
| 10 | The probable sequence of events in erecting such a structure would begin with the excavation of the flat-bottomed wall-trenches dug into the chalk which , judging from the evidence of signs of pecking on the trench sides , were made with a pointed tool . |
| 11 | During the 1987-88 and 1988-89 financial years , 592 deals were made with a notional value of about £6.1bn . |
| 12 | A recent survey of early Anglo-Saxon whetstones showed that a number were made of a sand-silt greywacké which has its source in the north-west Pennines , the Lake District and south-west Scotland . |
| 13 | The bosses were made from a single billet of soft iron ( Härke and Salter 1984 ) and fixed to the face of the shield by means of 4 to 5 rivets whose flat round heads are occasionally tinned . |
| 14 | The cubes were made from a single piece of metal . |
| 15 | I congratulate them all on the quiet dignity and courage that they have displayed in recent weeks while vile , vicious and baseless allegations were made by a proven liar . |
| 16 | Profits were made by a small number of heavily promoted productions . |
| 17 | ‘ But you must agree that the footprints were made by a living creature , not a ghost ? ’ |
| 18 | Phonemic transcriptions were made by a trained phonetician of the 80 sentences listed in Appendix 1 . |
| 19 | Spearheads were made in a wide range of identifiable forms emphasising that each iron object was a unique forging . |
| 20 | These remarks were made in a different context to this , but I regard them as apposite . |
| 21 | These remarks were made in a different context to this , but I regard them as apposite . |
| 22 | Investments were made in a multi-storey office block in Jos in the hope that its rents would help pay for the newspaper , but the building was still largely empty six months after completion . |