Example sentences of "were made [prep] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Adjustments were made for the continuous variables triceps skinfold ( measured as recommended by Tanner and Whitehouse , expressed as standard deviation scores calculated by the method of Cole ) and reported maternal height . |
| 2 | A decade later , parallel experiments were made with the isolated cells in culture , with similar results . |
| 3 | Comparisons were made of the following indices of bowel function : stated frequency of defecation per week , mean interval between recorded defecations , a score for stool form , and calculated whole gut transit time . |
| 4 | More than 13,000 inquiries were made to the Equal Opportunities Commission last year an increase of 47pc on the previous 12 months according to its annual report . |
| 5 | New appointments were made to the key ministries of the Interior ( Abdellatif Rahal ) , Economy ( Hocine Benissad ) and Foreign Affairs ( Lakhdar Brahimi ) . |
| 6 | As the main force behind united labour action , the public sector unions felt the full force of US-Japanese reaction when amendments were made to the constitutional guarantees of labour rights . |
| 7 | The same allegations were made concerning the presidential elections held the previous month [ see p. 37767 ] . |
| 8 | Telling speeches in support of abolition were made from the Conservative benches by Sir Edward Boyle and Henry Brooke , the former Home Secretary who had become persuaded by the arguments against capital punishment once free of the cares of office . |
| 9 | And in accord with this prediction , when recordings were made from the motor neurons within the abdominal ganglion during habituation , it was found that there was indeed a progressive decline in the firing rate of the cells as habituation occurred . |
| 10 | Daily implied volatility estimates were made from the closing prices of options on index futures . |
| 11 | He believed that people were made by the impersonal forces of history , not by greed , malice and lust . |
| 12 | The earliest discoveries in mathematics were made by the great physicists and astronomers in the course of their work , and in those days great scientists had to be great mathematicians . |
| 13 | Remarks were made by the local rivals , not about dancing standards as the Mites were inevitably highly experienced and could not be faulted , but more was made of their apparent roughness : |
| 14 | The technical way in which judicial decisions were made in the colonial courts was alien to indigenous tribunals but not to Sinhalese culture in general . |
| 15 | This is now a symbolic exchange , but it is a relic of the numerous treaties that once were made in the Pyrenean valleys to regulate the use of the high , communal pastures and put an end to the age-old practice of trespass or holding to ransom of intrusive livestock . |
| 16 | A more precise source for this than archaeology is the record of tax assessments , and more particularly the grants of tax relief which were made in the fifteenth-century reassessments . |
| 17 | This ice cream boasts American parentage , though its ancestry goes back to the exotic sherbets which were made in the Arab kingdoms of Granada and Cordoba in Spain . |
| 18 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |