Example sentences of "[vb -s] [been] make [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Accountancy firm Ernst and Young — which is attempting to sell the dwelling for its clients — has been made court appointed receivers for Nationchoice Limited which has claimed beneficial ownership of the building . |
2 | On the one side , US aid has been made conditional on action against the drug trade . |
3 | The new commitment has been made conditional on other countries taking similar action , which was interpreted by analysts as a reference to the United States , which has thus far refused to agree to reduction targets . |
4 | Eden told his colleagues that ‘ on certain occasions recently a decision taken without reference to the Cabinet or a Cabinet Committee has had to be re-considered soon after it has been made public because of the weight of criticism it has provoked . |
5 | New evidence of large-scale illegal trade in tropical timber throughout South East Asia and the Pacific has been made public in a report by Traffic , the wildlife trade monitoring programme . |
6 | Another slightly different angle on these issues is to consider the distinction between instrumentality and expressiveness which has been made use of by sociologists , and is usefully applied to a discussion of kin relations by Morgan ( 1975 , pp. 78–85 ) . |
7 | Tough-talking Deryck Maughan ( above ) , the former British Treasury official who made Salomon Brothers the most profitable foreign brokerage in Tokyo , has been made vice-chairman at the firm 's New York HQ . |
8 | Dorothy Tyson has been made churchwarden emeritus of St Nicholas 's Church , North Grimston near Malton , after completing 30 years as warden . |
9 | Where the task has been to make judgments of affective tone or extract central information from a slide , differences have emerged between central and peripheral details and this may well reflect the fact that attention to arousing information or central information ( which are assumed to be the same thing ) is explicitly required for task performance . |
10 | Her preferred method has been to make policies with small working parties , drawn from sympathetic ministers and members of her Policy Unit and ‘ think tanks ’ , as with the introduction of the poll tax , the health service review , and some of the education reforms . |
11 | Overall , the effect of low taxes and a free market has been to make Britain far more enterprising . |
12 | The aim has been to make purchasers much more prudent and to force providers to compete for business . |
13 | During the opening ceremony Governor Hunt paid special tribute to Courtaulds ' long association with Alabama — it has been making viscose rayon there for 40 years — presenting a ‘ birthday ’ proclamation to David Duthie , head of the company 's Cellulosics business . |
14 | The Labour Party has been making noises which suggest that things would be made easier for these schools , but I believe its welcome back would be a stab in the back for most of them . ’ |
15 | " Who else has been making bids for Mr Rayne ? " |
16 | In an attempt to overcome the criticisms that its Advanced Peer-to-Peer Networking technology is too proprietary , IBM Corp has been making moves to increase its appeal . |
17 | I suppose the appeal to me has been making things happen and changing things and feeling quite British about it and proud of what in my very small way I have been able to do in this country and being able to export that abroad and make it a success there . |
18 | Now aged 38 , Harwood has been making things , perfecting techniques and designing for the last twenty years but is barely known outside a small group of cognoscenti . |
19 | ‘ Cantona has been making things happen for us since he arrived here , ’ said Ferguson , who believes United will bounce back from their surprise reverse at Oldham . |
20 | Although Mr Cross has been making music since the early 80s , he 's best known for Ride Like the Wind and the theme tune to Dudley Moore 's film Arthur . |
21 | JSL of Hereford has been making pistols since 1975 , mostly for export . |
22 | Although Ryman has been making art since 1954 and belongs to the generation of Jasper Johns , he did not exhibit his work until the later Sixties and was not given a solo museum exhibition until 1972 . |
23 | Her personal milliner John Boyd , who has been making hats for the princess since she was 16 , said : ‘ She already has such a collection of hats that she does n't need anything new for this occasion . ’ |
24 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based on the OS/2 2.0 Workplace Shell , also up on AIX . |
25 | However , sources say IBM has been making Taligent 's life a misery lately , by insisting that Taligent use its Distributed System Object Model — a general purpose mechanism for communicating between objects based upon the OS/2 2.0 workplace shell , also up on AIX ( UX No 423 ) . |
26 | But a bar owner said : ‘ Since this all began the town has been making money hand over fist . |
27 | GEC , which has been making fibres for Telecom for two and a half years , says it is aiming to get the cost down to £100 per kilometre by the end of the 1980s . |
28 | Formed in 1920 it has been making men 's shoes in Rushden ever since . |
29 | Originally a painter , Peter Kennard has been making photomontages since the mid-Seventies , and is now widely regarded as the most important exponent of the art in Britain today . |
30 | ‘ We bought the malt extract arm of the Distillers Group which has been making malt for 100 years . |