Example sentences of "were made [prep] [art] [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first attempts at producing a problem-solving machine , or computer , were made during the Second World War as Allied scientists sought to break enemy codes . |
| 2 | No attacks were made on the 401st Bomb Group , but vicious assaults were made by the enemy fighters on the bomber wing that was flying alongside them . |
| 3 | Detailed studies of the distribution of animals and plants were made throughout the nineteenth century , often employing amateurs to do the actual surveying under the leadership of a few professionals . |
| 4 | Both lustre and blue-on-white wares were made from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century at Malaga and a typical example of a wide dish decorated in lustre and blue is shown in Figure 6.1 . |
| 5 | Measures taken at the half year have cut the financing requirement , and small debt repayments were made in the second half . |
| 6 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 8 | Many of the films , priced at £12 to £90 , were made in the Third World . |
| 9 | Sixty two Firefly engines were made in the mid-nineteenth century and not one of them has survived the scrapheap . |