Example sentences of "[verb] been make [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly , no good ethical case has been made to justify differential or inequitable treatment on such arbitrary grounds . |
| 2 | No attempt has been made to choose worthwhile bars that can be visited for a coffee break en route . |
| 3 | The issue of the document should not be taken to imply any commitment of any kind has been made to pursue possible solutions to the requirements described . |
| 4 | Clearly an attempt has been made to select key groups , but they are not used very effectively to date major sequences and odd conclusions were drawn , which were to have far reaching effects . |
| 5 | Parental responsibilities for children born outside marriage rest completely with the mother unless a specific agreement or court order has been made conferring parental status on the father . |
| 6 | The delay has been made to avoid potential sales conflict with the soundtrack album for the Trespass movie , which features new tracks by the film 's stars Ice-T and Ice Cube . |
| 7 | In the above , some attempt has been made to produce well-sounding harmony , but the whole-tone system has so little conflict within itself that almost any combination of notes can sound tolerable . |
| 8 | A modest start has been made to recruit young , able staff , but further progress will depend on adequate resources being available to fill posts that for financial reasons are currently left unfilled . |
| 9 | Issues of institutional design do n't disappear once a decision has been made to adopt internal organization . |
| 10 | Much effort has been made to provide maximum flexibility in the registration for these degrees . |
| 11 | Every effort has been made to ensure maximum clarity for the user . |
| 12 | Besides , he probably felt that he 'd been made to look foolish , and men do hate that . |
| 13 | As children we may have been made to feel inadequate , silly or useless because we were never praised . |
| 14 | Such a decision , if carried through , would have been debilitating for my mother , who would have been made to feel dependent , no longer capable of making decisions for herself , or acting independently . |
| 15 | Having been made to look stupid , he let us go without even checking up on the tax or the tyre . |
| 16 | With the exception of the computer industry , little effort seems to have been made to develop new industries ; instead there has been concentration on making our existing industries more efficient and competitive . |
| 17 | An attempt had been made to offset recent enclosures by letting out a few five-acre plots , rent and tithe free , to deserving poor , but the newer legislation continued to make things difficult . |
| 18 | A spokeswoman for the Saatchi Collection said the sales did not signal a lessening commitment to the collection , but had been made to finance new acquisitions . |
| 19 | At the conference a successful effort had been made to invite informed opinion not only from the educational community but from many interest groups within Nigeria , an initiative which met with a splendid response and which led , with the help of some skilful chairmanship and competent editing to the production of a useful and sensible working document . |
| 20 | It had been made to become unreal . |
| 21 | Attempts had been made to find alternative uses , but it was evident that nothing suitable was forthcoming . |
| 22 | It was n't her fault — yet she had been made to feel guilty . |
| 23 | He went back to the telephone , prompted by the recollection of an awkward scene where he had been made to feel unwelcome , a situation created by a man to whom he had taken a dislike . |
| 24 | We 've been made to feel ashamed of our actions , of the past . |
| 25 | Since the 1970s efforts have been made to organize residential care into small , autonomous units accommodating no more than ten youngsters . |
| 26 | Many attempts have been made to classify British cattle breeds on the basis of ancestry and these categories are often based on obvious physical characteristics such as horns and coat colour . |
| 27 | Attempts have been made to use judicial review to challenge a refusal of leave , but these have found little favour with the High Court ( R v. |
| 28 | Few serious attempts have been made to devise diagnostic tests in reading and number for the purpose of indicating relative attainment of learners . |
| 29 | Many attempts have been made to define safe or unsafe drinking levels . |
| 30 | At various times proposals have been made to give local authorities general enabling powers akin to those of continental authorities — power to do anything not forbidden them . |