Example sentences of "[noun] [was/were] made at the " in BNC.

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1 SENSIBLY , speeches were made at the start of Sir Kingsley Amis 's 70th birthday party at the Savoy Hotel yesterday .
2 The vote was made at the request of Mitsotakis after he dismissed Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and assumed the post himself on April 13 .
3 Trolleybuses ceased to run on route 654 on the night of Tuesday 3 March 1959 , when an official last run was made at the instigation of the Wallington and Carshalton Advertiser .
4 Although little headway was made at the meeting , the committee agreed to meet again on April 1 .
5 Two further appointments were made at the same time .
6 For the Irish squad to tour New Zealand will not be fit enough — the IRFU decision to send fitness advisor Eddie O'Sullivan with the team was made at the eleventh hour .
7 Some felt a leaping in their spirits at the moment when the announcement was made at the AGM , something which they knew was from God .
8 The announcement was made at the opening of the ‘ Spassenje ’ ( Rescue ) charity appeal , whose aim is to make up the shortfall of $15 million dollars still needed to complete the gallery 's reconstruction .
9 The announcement was made at the beginning of October .
10 On Nov. 13 the government postponed the constitutional referendum ( due on Nov. 28 ) to Dec. 26 ; the move was made at the request of all political parties following complaints that electoral lists were incomplete .
11 In October Macmillan went into hospital and resigned as Prime Minister ; the implausible Lord Home , incorporating the highest virtues of the traditional Tory , succeeded him ( becoming plain Sir Alec in the process ) but no changes were made at the Ministry of Education .
12 There was no doubt these eleventh-hour changes were made at the wish of Pope Paul , acting to retain the support of the minority .
13 Very few territorial changes were made at the end of the war , and none of any significance overseas .
14 The presentation was made at the Four Marks scout headquarters , by the Hampshire county commissioner , Capt. Michael Everitt .
15 The presentation was made at the Group 's Christmas meeting by Dr H. A. O. Hill , FRS , ( Oxford ) , one of the founders of the IBDG .
16 The presentation was made at the Annual Sales Conference in March , where Trevor 's achievement was noted as holding particular merit in such competitive trading conditions .
17 ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’
18 The quay was again extended when a tunnel was made through the island in 1934–9 , further extended in 1957–62 and achieved its present length in the 1970s , when a storage area for containers was made at the end .
19 The announcements were made at the InterOp conference in Washington .
20 Clinical , sigmoidoscopic , biopsy , haematological , and biochemical assessments were made at the beginning and end of the four week trial period or when patients were withdrawn prematurely .
21 Mandela 's demand was made at the Aug. 9-11 conference of the ANC 's military wing Umkhonto we Sizwe ( Spear of the Nation — MK ) , of which he was commander-in-chief .
22 ALLEGATIONS of gross misappropriation of funds belonging to the sport by the former president of the International Judo Federation were made at the biannual congress yesterday while the man himself lay in a nearby hospital apparently suffering from a heart attack , writes Philip Nicksan from Belgrade .
23 Certain unspecified revisions were made at the request of the Council of Constitutional Guardians .
24 Decisions were made at the top , by monarch , Council , or minister , not , as in a modern bureaucracy , by officials in the lower and middle echelons , who then mostly carried out routine tasks .
25 Of course , it would be much too simple if die links always proved that two objects were made at the same place and time .
26 In 1893 the following notes were made at the death-bed of a Dissenting Minister :
27 Production declined and exports were made at the expense of reserves accumulated in the warehouses .
28 The steel mainframe was fabricated by McKenzie & Brown of Caernarfon , the all-aluminium body was constructed by Carnforth Railway Restoration and Engineering Services , while the Pattern 88 semi-self steering bogies were made at the railway 's Boston Lodge Works , where the fitting out has also been accomplished .
29 Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office .
30 The above statement was made at the Sixth Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries at Eastern Michigan University in 1976 .
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