Example sentences of "[was/were] make [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be that demands were made beyond the capability of a particular individual , or the person concerned may simply have been to some degree in ill health . |
| 2 | Erm and what , and , and because the decisions were made outside the division , they were made here , |
| 3 | Overnight nine arrests were made across the province when minor trouble flared in several areas . |
| 4 | Smaller cuts were made through the reduction , privatization or closure of most of British Rail 's workshops . |
| 5 | The formal shouts of challenge and reply were made between the guards on the watchtowers and the approaching horsemen , and a moment later there were hooves clattering in the yard . |
| 6 | The usual conveyancing arrangements were made between the building society 's solicitors , Messrs. Warrens , and the Hammonds ' solicitors , W. H. Hopkins & Co . |
| 7 | 267 , which came to the Privy Council just before the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council was created , provides a valuable illustration of the fact that in the absence of such arrangements as were made between the Inns of Court and the judges in this country , the power to judges to determine who were fit and proper persons to practise before them , where it existed , was regarded as essential for the due administration of justice . |
| 8 | The Fire Exhibition displays some of the discoveries that were made during the repairs . |
| 9 | Some worthwhile traffic gains were made during the 1980s , such as timber from the Scottish Highlands and drinks from several locations in the South West . |
| 10 | Altogether 120 referrals were made during the study year . |
| 11 | Readers of high moral sensitivity may be shocked — in the words of one reader — by the ‘ Machiavellian and devious way decisions were made during the Thatcher era ’ . |
| 12 | The most unpleasant discoveries were made during the process of clearance : cupboards full of urine-encrusted chamber pots , of ancient patent medicine , of dead mice , of moth-infested garments , of fossilized scraps of nineteenth-century food : Hogarthian , Dickensian relics of an oppressed and squalid past . |
| 13 | Written records confirm the evidence of archaeology that foundation offerings of precious substances were made during the construction of early temples in Mesopotamia . |
| 14 | Attempts were made during the war to bomb Saddam 's convoy , and the American attack on the Al-Amariyah shelter , which resulted the in the deaths if up to 300 women and children , seems to have been ordered because a high intensity of walkie-talkie traffic was detected at the shelter . |
| 15 | The best were made during the war , including Listen to Britain ( 1942 ) , Fires Were Started ( 1943 ) , and Diary for Timothy ( 1944/5 ) . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The first US space walks for five years were made during the shuttle mission , one in an emergency to free an antenna on the GRO which had failed to operate , and the other to test equipment for the construction of the proposed Freedom space station . |
| 18 | These presentation were made during the annual sales conference . |
| 19 | Such chronicles include letters which purport to have been written by the rebels , and note demands which were made during the rising . |
| 20 | Two of these orders were made under the Domestic Violence and Matrimonial Proceedings Act 1976 and had a power of arrest attached . |
| 21 | Most of the reported decisions were made under the provisions of the Act of 1972 but for convenience I shall throughout refer to the relevant provisions under the numbers of the sections and subsections as they appear in the Act of 1988 . |
| 22 | It seems fair to claim this attractive book as a product of Wales because although the author lives in Eastern England and has observed wheatears in many far-flung places , the foundation studies were made on the Pembrokeshire island of Skokholm and Peter Conder has often returned there to keep fresh the memory of his pioneering researches . |
| 23 | It seems fair to claim this attractive book as a product of Wales because although the author lives in eastern England and has observed wheatears in many far-flung places , the foundation studies were made on the Pembrokeshire island of Skokholm and Peter Conder has often returned there to keep fresh the memory of his pioneering researches . |
| 24 | It was built in 1907 to serve the local soft fruit trade , and although it is an elegant bridge it is actually built of concrete blocks which were made on the site . |
| 25 | The Palace awarded Jimmy a Benefit in 1914–15 ( along with Harry Hanger and Bob Spottiswood ) , but unfortunately the designated local derby against Croydon Common had to be deferred until we were playing at Herne Hill , and it is uncertain what arrangements were made on the players ’ behalf . |
| 26 | Unfortunately , the Palace had been forced to move to Herne Hill by the time the match against Bob 's old club , Croydon Common , was staged , and it is not known what arrangements were made on the players ' behalf . |
| 27 | Reprisals , they say , for those raids that were made on the Kasbah . ’ |
| 28 | In bygone days all proclamations were made on the market cross steps , and the hiring of labour was carried out there too . |
| 29 | The tank was left for a further two weeks , during which regular checks were made on the quality of the water . |
| 30 | Considerable physical demands were made on the men engaged on this work . |