Example sentences of "[be] made [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some attempt had been made to turn the area immediately in front of the door into a rose-arbour by the erection of a bit of trellis work at right angles to the wall , and he crouched behind the little protection this afforded . |
| 2 | Many attempts have been made to tame the Biro , or at least bring it to heel . |
| 3 | If B 's complaint were that an attempt should have been made to invoke the Gallagher jurisdiction when his appeal was before the House of Lords , then it is long out of time . |
| 4 | ‘ Arrangements have also been made to consult the judiciary about those discretionary life sentence cases where the first formal review has not yet been set , with a view to fixing the date as soon as possible . |
| 5 | Surely arrangements should have been made to allow the Secretary of State to report to the House on the outcome of the consultations and on the advice of his expert , Mr. Roy Stoner of Southampton university , about the objections voiced during the consultation period . |
| 6 | He recognized that some attempts had been made to cultivate the seeds of Natural Reason into something worthwhile . |
| 7 | Great efforts have been made to restore the salmon runs on rivers in the American north-east , only for 70-90 per cent of the fish to be caught when they reach the rich feeding grounds off the west coast of Greenland . |
| 8 | The effects of this pressure have emerged in at least one Modular Course evaluation study ( see Table 6.2 , Modular Course Management Structures ) , and a determined attempt has been made to configure the management system in such a way that Field Chairs participate in all Course development decisions , so that special needs are recognized and special difficulties can not be easily ignored . |
| 9 | No attempt has been made to see the needs of legally aided clients as different from those of fee-paying clients . |
| 10 | John Shields , chief executive of Bedford , Massachusetts-based Computervision Corp since 1990 , has been made to carry the can for the company 's disappointing reflotation last summer , and has been fired after losing the confidence of its board of directors . |
| 11 | Such would obviously be so in the case of a binding compromise ; but even where there is no consideration for the payment , it may have been made to close the transaction and so be irrecoverable . |
| 12 | Attempts have been made to regularize the position and , in 1966 , the Russell Report on the Supply and Training of Teachers recommended that , by 1969 , a professional training requirement should be introduced for all new entrants into the further education colleges , a recommendation that was never implemented because of the urgent need for teachers at the time and the shortage of money . |
| 13 | In the Rohan Hours , produced for Yolande of Aragon between c.1418–25 and now in the Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris , the shroud is shown as a loose sheet , almost as if the dead man had been lifted from his bed and placed into his coffin ; no attempt has been made to mould the cloth about the body or to position the limbs . |
| 14 | And they have vowed to maintain their position until a decision has been made to reverse the closure of the pit . |
| 15 | It is worth noting the conclusions of John Goodman of Kent County Council , where a serious attempt has been made to use the provisions , recorded in ‘ Mineral Planning ’ this year : |
| 16 | This brief diversion into the cultural and political history of Germany , the USSR and China has been made to emphasise the way that a state may determine artistic production , and thence art criticism . |
| 17 | One patient with shunt thrombosis has had a CVA and no attempt has been made to recannulise the shunt . |
| 18 | The Lanx may have been made to commemorate the visit of Julian the Apostate to the shrine in 363 AD . |
| 19 | Until further progress has been made to facilitate the identification of people at risk of schizophrenia , there is not a firm basis for large-scale intervention programmes . |
| 20 | At some stage a clumsy , and unsuccessful , attempt has been made to erase the angel 's prominent manhood . |
| 21 | In respect of those minorities , has any suggestion been made to revise the frontiers of the Baltic states ? |
| 22 | At the same time , criticisms which underlay le français fondamental have been made to illustrate the fact that such vocabulary selection , far from being all that linguists can contribute to the preparation of teaching materials , is still in a stage of development . |
| 23 | It by no means follows that if B had been made bankrupt the dividend would have amounted to the sum obtained , so that the bank might have got less . |
| 24 | When the first attempts had been made to adapt the Wright Brothers ' invention as a lethal instrument , pilots went aloft with steel darts and took pot shots at one another with service revolvers . |
| 25 | An offence will not be committed when a defective lamp or reflector is found on a vehicle in use on a road during daytime hours if such a lamp or reflector became defective during the journey which is in progress or if arrangements have been made to remedy the defect with all reasonable expedition . |
| 26 | It is possible but unlikely that progress might have been made had the UN adopted an investigative role instead of a course of action proposed by the United States . |
| 27 | Environmentalists have complained that in contrast to road-building programmes , for example , no attempt has been made to assess the cost of intangible environmental losses to the community , as against financial benefits to the farmer ; that calculations of benefit have assumed unrealistic yields and excessively speedy rates of take-up by farmers ; that there is a reluctance to design low-level flood protection , even when farmers are getting by with an arable crop in most years ; that the inevitable patching of eroding banks as a river reacts to the engineering constraints put upon it is never allowed for in the costs ; and that the benefits anticipated from a drainage schemes are based on what are known as ‘ farm-gate prices ’ received by farmers for their crops . |
| 28 | No study has been made to assess the merits of the two competing schools . |
| 29 | The district judge may extend the period of four months for a further period or periods each not exceeding four months , if reasonable efforts have been made to serve the summons and provided that the application has been made before the preceding 12 months expire , or if later , in the court 's discretion ( Ord 7 , r 20(2) ) . |
| 30 | A further change has been made to replace the concept of " full-time working director " . |