Example sentences of "[was/were] make [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thirty-three calls were made between July and October last year . |
| 2 | Our measurements were made between February 1991 and March 1992 at the Australian Baseline Air Pollution Station , located at 41°S on the northwestern tip of Tasmania . |
| 3 | A number of disclosures were made between November 1989 and February 1990 of secret arrangements between the government and British Aerospace ( BAe ) in relation to the latter 's purchase of the motor manufacturer Rover Group . |
| 4 | Instead two further attempts were made during Attlee 's prime-ministership to negotiate a replacement for the Quebec Agreement . |
| 5 | Petitions for English ( or Angevin , or Savoyard ) seneschals were made under Edward II , on the grounds that a Gascon might have vested interests in the politics of the duchy and would be unable to adjudicate disputes with impartiality . |
| 6 | Further changes were made on Sept. 19 , prompted by the departure of Deputy Prime Minister and Defence and National Service Minister Salim Ahmed Salim to take the post of Secretary-General of the Organization of African Unity ( OAU ) . |
| 7 | A number of Cabinet changes were made on May 14 , in which three ministers were dismissed . |
| 8 | They were assumed by the Icelandic author of the mid-thirteenth-century Knytlinga Saga , the only source in which they appear , to refer to Cnut 's conquest of 1015 – 16 , but this is likely to be an error , for attacks were made on London in 1009 too , and Ringmere was certainly fought in 1010 . |
| 9 | Parallel announcements relating to Wales and Scotland were made on July 23 and July 25 respectively . |
| 10 | Appeals for an end to the fighting were made on Dec. 15 and 19 by Ahmed Esmat Abdel Meguid , the Arab League Secretary-General , by Salim Ahmed Salim , the OAU Secretary-General , on Dec. 17 , and by UN Secretary-General Javier Pérez de Cuéllar on Dec. 28 . |
| 11 | Announcements were made on Dec. 19 designed to revive the housing market , which was currently severely depressed due largely to persistently high mortgage interest rates ( despite some reduction in the course of 1991 ) and the accompanying spate of repossessions . |
| 12 | Likewise , various scurrilous attacks were made on Constanze 's honour , suggesting that during her frequent sojourns in Baden she had taken Mozart 's pupil Süssmayr as a lover , and that her last child ( who bore Süssmayr 's Christian names ) was his . |
| 13 | Attempts were made on Sukarno 's life . |
| 14 | Eight Cabinet changes were made on Oct. 16 . |
| 15 | Four raids were made on Malta on Sunday 13th. , but the Hurricanes were involved in escorting four destroyers into harbour much of the day , and only two interceptions were made . |
| 16 | Can I say that we ourselves have also been drafting a set of criteria , er taking on board the various points that were made on Friday morning . |
| 17 | On June 22 Tokonye Kotelo , hitherto high commissioner in Kenya , was named as Minister of Foreign Affairs following the resignation of Capt. Pius Molapo ; on June 23 Chief Mohlalefi Bereng was sworn in as the Minister of Interior , Chieftaincy Affairs and Rural Development , replacing Kgotsi Matete ; three other Cabinet changes were made on June 29 . |
| 18 | Mr Talbot refers to a meeting last December at which Kevin Maxwell refused to discuss the transactions for fear of self-incrimination , but says his investigations indicate that certain of the payments were made on Mr Maxwell 's authority and that his response is ‘ urgently ’ needed . |
| 19 | In January this year , three long service presentations were made at Douglas Reyburn to those who had worked for a continuous twenty five years with the company . |
| 20 | The draws for the prizes were made at Crystal Palace , the Dinner Dance and the Annual General Meeting . |
| 21 | The more sophisticated projects drawn up by Speransky in 1809 and Novosiltsev in 1819 were made at Alexander 's instigation and fell to the ground the moment he lost enthusiasm . |
| 22 | Boreholes were drilled and geophysical investigations were made at Shaftesbury , and a draft report has been prepared . |
| 23 | Where once Tory MPs were made at Eton , now they are graduates of home counties motels . |
| 24 | Landings were made at Wurzburg and Frankfurt , but only the pilot and navigator were allowed to get out . |
| 25 | These large , rather crudely decorated , earthenware teapots were made at Coalville and Swadlincote , and many of the East Anglians who went up before the 1914–18 war brought ‘ Burton teapots ’ back with them because it was part of the experience of going to Burton , like buying a new suit . |
| 26 | Kerseys were made at Midhurst and Petworth and leather workers were prominent in Horsham , one of the most flourishing towns in the Weald of Sussex , as well as a prime example of a town which , despite an outstanding rate of economic growth since the last general fiscal revaluation in 1334 , remained unplaced in the national league table ( see Table 2.7 ) . |
| 27 | The first moving images were made at Leeds Bridge |
| 28 | Six long service awards and one retirement presentation were made at Sekers Fabrics just prior to the Christmas break . |
| 29 | The evidence for this has to be the deafening silence when , after the French and German elections , connections were made about PR letting the Nazis in . |
| 30 | Three claims were made about Mozart during 1992. ( 1 ) Listening to Mozart can help ease the pain while giving birth . |