Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] have been make " in BNC.

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1 Significant levels of trading went on outside this inner area , and scattered finds of Minoan products have been made as far west as the Lipari Islands off the coast of Italy , as far north as Troy ( stone lamps ) , and as far east as Egypt and Syria , where Minoan vases made of precious metal have been found .
2 Just as the governmental structure has been modified in response to political demands , so the responsibilities of government have grown as greater social and economic demands have been made of it .
3 The 12 staff employed in European offices have been made redundant .
4 The twelve staff employed in European offices have been made redundant .
5 Brave attempts have been made by certain experts to write down the different miaows , in order to classify and standardize them .
6 Careful plans have been made for these people so that when the hospital eventually closes they will not find themselves on the streets .
7 In recent years , the English courts have been making greater and more assertive use of their powers ; they retain , however , a proper sensitivity to the position of foreign countries , and exercise their discretion with that in mind .
8 The need for evaluation was realized by librarians , and obviously some evaluation was taking place , but few systematic attempts to evaluate programmes of user instruction by different methods had been made .
9 Both methods have been used here , principally the first , but some interesting comparisons have been made with the second .
10 He also claims that it is desirable to think ‘ intuitively ’ and not by logical steps , but again logic is the exception not the rule in human thought and all the greatest scientific discoveries have been made by the use of informed intuition , Ornstein believes that the right hemisphere is underdeveloped in Western man and the spiritual growth depends on expanding its activities .
11 Hundreds of chartered accountants have been made redundant and with the surfeit of candidates competing for vacancies , employers have been able to reduce salaries in some cases .
12 Detailed studies have been made of the area from a natural-history point of view .
13 Where such detailed studies have been made they tend towards the typological and shy away from the technological aspects .
14 Many detailed studies have been made of the lunar samples .
15 Similar theoretical studies have been made in other countries such as that by Professor Norman Rasmussen in the United States , who concluded that the worst possible reactor accident would cause 3300 deaths , 45,000 illnesses , and 1500 fatal cancers which would appear decades later ( Hawkes et al. , 1986 ) .
16 However , some interesting observations have been made in relation to adhesion and tumour spread .
17 Research has consistently demonstrated that the transfer of older clients from hospital to the community can be very problematic with older people being sent home without adequate arrangements having been made for their continuing care ( Victor 1983 ) .
18 They separated and , on their joint application for divorce , the Family Court of Australia granted a decree nisi and expressed itself satisfied that proper arrangements had been made for the children 's welfare , namely , that they would live with their mother during the week and be supervised by the father at weekends .
19 The safety of the Ignalina nuclear power station in Lithuania , based on a similar design to Chernobyl' , was raised by the republican party secretary at the 19th Party Conference ; the construction of a third reactor , he complained , was proceeding before the details of its design had been approved , and before proper arrangements had been made for its security .
20 We have taken all reasonable and proper steps to ensure that proper arrangements have been made for all the holidays which are advertised in this brochure and for excursions as described above and that the suppliers of the various services which will be provided to you as part of the inclusive holiday are efficient , safe and reputable businesses , and that they comply with the local and national laws and regulations of the country in which they provide those services .
21 Dr Kennedy added : ‘ We consider that today 's industrial action is unnecessary as a number of reasonable and generous offers have been made to the individual at the centre of this case . ’
22 Illegal light connections have been made , loops of wire with bare bulbs .
23 However , in an interview with Dutch television on 1 October , the Russian Minister for Culture and Tourism , Yevgeniy Sidorov , did say that the drawings had been ‘ found ’ on Russian soil , and that an invitation had been issued to the Dutch ambassador to come and ‘ verify ’ the collection , which was probably moved last year to the monastery of Pavloviy Posad ( formerly Zagorsk ) in an attempt by the Pushkin museum 's authorities to save their reputations after repeated accusations had been made against them both by Russians and the Dutch .
24 Few serious attempts have been made to devise diagnostic tests in reading and number for the purpose of indicating relative attainment of learners .
25 When similar proposals have been made in the past they have been greeted with well-founded objections on both moral and empirical grounds , given the known inaccuracy of existing predic-tion techniques ( see Bottoms , 1977 ; Radzinowicz and Hood , 1979 ; Bottoms and Brownsword , 1993 ) .
26 Taking the donor agencies as a whole , about 9,000 evaluations of individual projects have been made since 1970 , probably accounting for about 12 per cent of all projects launched since that time .
27 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 .
28 If several unsuccessful attempts have been made , the LIFESPAN Manager or immediate parent should be consulted to discover if your user name has in fact been created , or to modify the password if necessary .
29 Since the Revolution of 1974 and the opening of the Regional Government and Parliament granted by the new constitution in 1976 , vast improvements have been made to the infrastructure of the islands and to the living standards of the people .
30 Members in developing countries should note that additional funds have been made available for 1993 by the Society 's International Committee , to provide grants for successful applicants from such countries .
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