Example sentences of "[verb] been made [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When a concerted and invasive effort has been made to find acid fast rods in sarcoid tissue they seem to be present , and acid fast bacteria without cell walls and tuberculostearic acid have also been isolated from lesions of patients with sarcoidosis . |
| 2 | A start has been made to operate stock control of a central garden store for supplies , materials and equipment as part of the Administration LAN . |
| 3 | Whilst every effort has been made to ensure accuracy neither British Coal nor the Association of Railway Preservation Societies can accept responsibility for any inaccuracies . |
| 4 | ‘ We paid almost £9,000 for the car but we will be lucky to get £4,000 for it , ’ said Mr Lewis who believes the teenager should at least have been made to do community work . |
| 5 | In this way the move to more fertile soils may have been made to improve productivity per person and increase output for similar or less effort . |
| 6 | Daiwa suspected that something was amiss only at the beginning of this year , when it uncovered evidence that attempts had been made to forge security depositary receipts . |
| 7 | Dark , scorched areas suggested that an unsuccessful attempt had been made to set fire to it . |
| 8 | Up to this time no genuine attempt had been made to acquire knowledge of our early inhabitants , no extensive plan for a generalisation of known excavations . |
| 9 | Brandon J. noted that Mareva injunctions had been made to provide security for the payment of any award which the plaintiff might obtain in the arbitration , and he saw ‘ no good reason ’ against this practice . |
| 10 | When Peru was actively whaling in the 1970s and early 1980s , catching Bryde 's whales mainly for the Japanese market , unsuccessful attempts had been made to introduce whale meat to the Peruvian population . |
| 11 | Hardware Many hundreds of simple , cheap modifications have been made to enable maintenance and operations teams to ‘ Work Smarter not Harder . ’ |
| 12 | The TUC 's response to such criticisms has been characteristically heavy-handed : McIlroy was barred from teaching on TUC courses , and it is alleged that attempts have been made to stifle debate . |
| 13 | Although slight changes have been made to covenant administration , the principle of committing yourself to giving , for four or more years , remains the same . |
| 14 | In recent months the management unit in Brussels ( DG1 ) has been restructured , and moves have been made to devolve responsibility to a new Tacis unit in the commission 's delegation in Moscow . |
| 15 | In addition , some improvements have been made to weather station linkages . |
| 16 | Although some attempts have been made to use interview schedules ( O'Neill et al. , 1981 ) direct observation currently provides the most accurate way of measuring client activity patterns ( Joyce et al. , 1989 ) in a study population who are unable to speak authoritatively for themselves . |
| 17 | For some of the awards , changes have been made to allow progression to other qualifications . |
| 18 | He also listed the capital investments that have been made to improve health care in his constituency . |
| 19 | Attempts have been made to relate expenditure on R and D to performance indicators both in aggregate terms and at the level of particular industries [ Pavitt , 1980 ] . |
| 20 | We have negotiated , or in the process of negotiating , service agreements with some organisations which provide high-cost domestic scale units for people with profound/multiple handicaps ; in addition special arrangements have been made to secure emergency accommodation for people who are vulnerable and homeless . |
| 21 | Geophysical surveys resulting from the initiative have been made to study saltern mounds on the Lincolnshire coast ( for Lindsey Archaeological Services and English Heritage ) ; to delineate terrace gravels near the Trent containing evidence of Roman settlement ( Trent and Peak Archaeological Trust and Steetly Products Ltd ) ; and to define the extent of a deserted medieval village under threat from road improvements ( Leicestershire County Council ) . |
| 22 | Various surface modifications have been made to introduce partner functional groups where these groups are not already present — eg introducing acid groups into stainless steel for the subsequent reaction of aminophosphorylcholine derivatives . |
| 23 | Elsewhere , especially in Niger , strong moves have been made to expand broadcasting in local languages . |
| 24 | Attempts have been made to distinguish predation from scavenging ( Binford , 1981 ; Bunn , 1982 ; Shipman , 1983b , 1986 ) , but this work has been based entirely on analysis of large mammals ( Behrensmeyer , 1987 ) . |
| 25 | As chairman Reg Brealey explains in his statement , changes have been made to provide depreciation on buildings and equipment , to accrue retirement gratuity payments , to write off to p&l account the exchange adjustment on foreign currency loans and to provide for interest payable — ‘ all to help in the cause of a clean auditor 's report ’ . |
| 26 | A great deal of bomb debris still remains to be cleared , but valiant efforts have been made to remove refuse . |
| 27 | Indeed attempts have been made to produce world maps indicating the distribution of different weathering products ( Fig. 6.17 ) . |