Example sentences of "[was/were] make [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Subsequently , after consumption of a test meal , gall bladder images were made every 15 minutes for 2 hours .
2 This may imply that in cremating areas the vessels were made a certain size for the specific function of containing the ashes , whereas in areas practising inhumation there may not have been such specialised production , the vessels being drawn from the domestic stock .
3 The comments above by Sisam ( 1915 ) and Hall ( 1920 ) arise directly from Skeats 's views , and , although these comments were made a long time ago , it would be a mistake to think that the Anglo-Norman argument has now been abandoned .
4 These points were made a long time ago by Kahn-Freund in ( 1940–1 ) 4 MLR 221 , but have never been satisfactorily answered .
5 I was put in touch with a local historian who thought that the stone was possibly a Roman altar stone and said that it had been discovered set into the wall of the church when renovations were made a few years ago .
6 Broadly parallel announcements were made the same day in respect of Wales and Scotland .
7 They were making a great game of it .
8 She also talked of naked greed , although it takes a curious kind of logic to see the deprived as greedy while company directors were awarding themselves large pay increases and the ‘ yuppies ’ in the city were making a great deal of money and spending it as conspicuously as possible .
9 UK and Netherlands reservations about the viability of the proposed EC/WEU merger appeared to be vindicated in early 1991 by the EC Commission 's failure to agree on any joint policy on the Gulf conflict ( Germany and Denmark opposing all military involvement in the region ) , at a time when the forces despatched by the UK , France and Italy to support the US-led alliance against Iraq were making a visible and effective contribution to the restoration of Kuwait 's sovereignty [ see pp. 37934 ; 37941 ] .
10 The drag of the loaded inflatable had slowed the catamaran so that they were making a bare five knots .
11 Within five years he had paid back every penny , and by 1960 his ships were making a good deal of money .
12 You were making a good point there .
13 Three men held last weekend in the city were making a second appearance before magistrates in Middleton in Manchester today on charges involving procuring firearms .
14 ‘ By the end of the third month we were making a slight profit .
15 By the mid-1970s the CNAA and its institutions were making a major contribution to legal education : a survey in 1976/77 showed that there were then thirty-two university law schools and twenty-two polytechnics and other colleges offering undergraduate law degree courses , the most recent being at the Polytechnics of North East London and Preston in 1975 , and the Polytechnic of Wales in 1977 .
16 It added that Serb sources said their opponents were making a major effort to capture Mount Caus , which dominates the area , but the Serbs were holding firm .
17 The electric light was burning and mixers and other equipment were making a steady hum .
18 While the domination of the criminal market was well known within the profession nothing was done for two main reasons : first , solicitors were making a handsome living and were under no pressure to find or create alternative sources of income : and second , there appeared to be no way in which these cartels could be broken by ethical means :
19 We discovered that some had already found their way through our boots and were making a tasty meal out of our feet .
20 But she was sensitive enough to let those at the Mill believe that they were making a competitive offer .
21 He said that they were making a positive contribution , not only to the quality of life , but also to the prosperity of the nation , because without chemistry life on earth would be more miserable , more painful and certainly shorter .
22 The visitors were engineers from the in Japan and were making a fleeting tour of maltings around the UK .
23 They were making a slow circuit of the farmhouse and its barn , a lean-to of roughly dressed timber made dark and smooth with age .
24 ‘ I told you you were making a big mistake . ’
25 Somebody said , did it mean we were making a big profit ?
26 His deliberate act was in fact obstructing the police who were making a lawful arrest , and that was sufficient mens rea .
27 At 1325 hours , when about 40 nautical miles from Goose Bay , the crew of the aircraft were advised that they were very short on fuel and were making a rapid descent for straight-in approach to runway 27 .
28 Where once you were making a conscious effort to cast long and accurately and were aware of the amount of punch you needed to put into the strike , you will find that with experience you begin to do these things quite naturally .
29 Many authorities were making a conscious effort to expand the social group from which their secondary pupils were drawn .
30 An RAF Nimrod aircraft , eight lifeboats and local fishing vessels were making a massive sweep of almost 1,000 square miles of Cardigan Bay as the search resumed this morning .
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