Example sentences of "[was/were] make in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | More than 1.3 million discretionary payments were made in the year in question . |
| 2 | According to the company , the market is expanding fast : three-quarters of its sales were made in the past 18 months . |
| 3 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 4 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 5 | A fifth of all the party 's gains were made in the West Midlands and it achieved double the national swing in the region , writes David Graves . |
| 6 | Agriculture was brutally collectivized and no concessions were made in the use of the Ukrainian language and culture . |
| 7 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |
| 8 | Fry 's chocolates were made in the old centre of the city but as the business expanded they needed a large space for a modern factory and also easy ways of distributing the goods . |
| 9 | There were several types of plan used for villas , and the grandest were made in the form of an open square with the buildings forming four sides of an open courtyard . |
| 10 | The ‘ Marathon ’ discs of 1912 ( 48 ) were made in the usual ten-inch and twelve-inch diameters , but with finer grooves . |
| 11 | Just one quarter of Britain 's robots were made in the UK ; 37 per cent came from the rest of Europe while 24 per cent and 14 per cent owe their origins to the US and Japan . |
| 12 | By the middle of the 18th century walnut was no longer used for fashionable furniture but continued in favour in the provinces where , late in the century , pieces were made in the style of 50 years earlier . |
| 13 | But when due allowance has been made for the very various functions of castles , as administrative and social as well as military centres , it remains true that they were formidable military weapons , and that some of the most remarkable technological advances of the twelfth century were made in the improvement of siege engines and of a castle 's defences . |
| 14 | Clement Attlee announced that the British Empire and Commonwealth , being based on Christian principles , was ‘ the exact contrast to the Nazi conception of a world order ’ , which was the expression of the creed of Antichrist , and countless other speeches were made in the same vein . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The more major fragmentation occurred as developments were made in the control of the machine tools themselves . |
| 17 | Considerable savings were made in the surgery during the six months after introducing this treatment . |
| 18 | More significant concessions were made in the 1920s , when a majority of the Legislative Council was elected by a franchise limited by ethnicity , education and wealth . |
| 19 | In the twentieth century the focus of government policy shifted from the judiciary to the police , and few changes were made in the structure or procedure of the courts . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Further free climbs of aided routes were made in the 70s , including that of The Ghost , by Ed Drummond and Tom Proctor . |
| 22 | Most equity investments in 1989 were made in the U.K. but significant additions were also made overseas and the programme of property developments has continued . |
| 23 | Induced-polarisation and resistivity measurements were made in the boreholes , and magnetic susceptibility logs were compiled from data recorded from core . |
| 24 | IN BARCELONA last night travel plans were made in the hope that the ban will be lifted . |
| 25 | A few other studies were made in the 1970s , by women , about the problems which unions raised for women as well as the problems which women raised for the unions ( Cunnison , 1983 ; Coote and Kellner , 1981 ; Stageman , 1980 ; Harrison , 1969 , 1980 ) . |
| 26 | No other social institutions changed , no alterations were made in the sexual division of labour and the previously existing power structure . |
| 27 | Some at least of the Knossos ivory figurines were made in the workshop beside the Royal Road . |
| 28 | Its recommendations were made in the document Improving Secondary Schools ( ILEA , 1984 ) . |
| 29 | Four microinjections of WGA-HRP were made in the left occipital operculum of two rhesus monkeys ( Macaca multatta ) to mark and surround the foveal and perifoveal representation , and the sectioned brains and flat-mounted retinae were processed to reveal the injection sites and the loci of labelled retinal ganglion cells that projected topographically to those sites ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 30 | Similar points were made in the guides as in Terminating Parental Contact . |