Example sentences of "[noun pl] was made [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , at last year 's SNP conference , a call to drop the commitment to renationalise the public utilities was made by the convener of publicity , John Swinney , and was supported by a former party leader , Gordon Wilson . |
| 2 | Chain began working in the summer of 1938 on penicillin and pyocyanase , though by January 1939 , when an application for funds was made to the Medical Research Council , penicillin and ‘ actinomycetin ’ , an antibiotic which Waksman was studying , were mentioned . |
| 3 | The comparison between two categorical variables was made with the χ 2 test . |
| 4 | The breakthrough to finding broad spectrum quinolones was made in the early 1980s , when fluorine was substituted at position 6 , a piperazinyl residue was introduced at position 7 and new residues were introduced at position 1 of the quinolone basic structure ( 7–10 ) . |
| 5 | Following John Crossman 's post-prandial speech , the reply on behalf of the guests was made by the magnificent be-kilted Ronald MacPherson , a former accountant with Stock Conversion , who retired in 1980 . |
| 6 | On 5 December , the last of several direct appeals was made to the federal and state police to investigate those threatening him . |
| 7 | The announcement of both awards was made on the Queen 's Official Birthday on 21 April . |
| 8 | No reduction in damages was made for the plaintiff 's failure to wear a seat belt even though he was found after the collision hanging out of the defendant 's car and had suffered a severe blow to the head . |
| 9 | The quay was again extended when a tunnel was made through the island in 1934–9 , further extended in 1957–62 and achieved its present length in the 1970s , when a storage area for containers was made at the end . |
| 10 | The diagnosis of recurrent ulcers was made from the past history and gastrofibrescopic examination . |
| 11 | The abolition of development charges was made on the ground that they had proved ‘ too unreliable an instrument to act as the lynch-pin of a permanent settlement ’ . |
| 12 | The inclusion of the article relating to troop withdrawals was made at the insistence of the leaders of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania who had reportedly threatened not to sign the declaration , so preventing its adoption , without an agreement on the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Baltic states . |
| 13 | A clear statement of the key factors was made by the Employment Appeal Tribunal in International Sports Co Ltd v Thomson ( 1980 ) : |
| 14 | The image of public service was strong although from time to time a recognition of the public relations benefits was made by the solicitors we interviewed : |
| 15 | And at least this court has one advantage over others : we know the extent to which disclosure of the P.C.A. documents was made during the course of the appeal hearing . |
| 16 | The September changes were intended to make the EMS less vulnerable to external influences , and to this end further agreement on foreign exchange intervention policies and interest rate policies was made with the particular objective of reducing incentives for short-term capital movements . |
| 17 | Despite offering similar hereditary rights to the nobles themselves , Henry was not successful in implementing this plan , but he died before any firm rejection of his proposals was made by the German princes . |
| 18 | In that case a claim to purchase tax in respect of one of their products was made against the plaintiffs . |
| 19 | A PLEDGE to return ownership of privatised Scottish water to local councils was made by the Labour leader , John Smith , yesterday . |