Example sentences of "[be] made that [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Allegations have been made that successful convictions in a number of key murder trials have been dependent upon confession evidence which has been improperly obtained during police interrogation .
2 Although laser gain has been observed at a shorter wavelength — 18–2 nanometres by Geoff Pert 's group at the University of Hull — no claims have been made that those experiments produced coherent light ; the emission included radiation generated by other processes .
3 A general rule could be made that weak syllables which are phonologically composed of a plosive or fricative consonant plus are uncommon except in initial position in the words .
4 Each of the lower feeders had their own cropping techniques , and a general assumption can be made that such techniques had themselves a co-evolutionary impact on plants .
5 The point also needs to be made that these figures do not relate to gross income or net income in the sense that any member of the public would normally understand it .
6 Continued allegations were made that surplus revenues were being applied for civic and municipal purposes and not for the improvement of the Harbour in accordance with the Acts of 1799 and 1826 .
7 The assumption is made that dissatisfied workers are more likely to leave the one job for another , take time off , or go on strike , but there has been considerable debate about all three measures , and there are cogent reasons for doubting that any of them serve as adequate indicators of job satisfaction .
8 The issue of the legitimacy of corporate enterprise can , however , be saved from being swallowed up in this wider debate if the assumption is made that alternative patterns of distribution can be secured through state action should the prevailing one be considered morally unappealing .
9 No suggestion was made that non-litigation costs were not amenable to being quantified by taxation .
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