Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] make [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is a better finisher than that , of course , and amends were duly made in the 43rd minute when he brought it to 2-0 on the night and 3-3 overall by meeting David Smith 's low centre from the left with a 12-yard volley of stunning velocity . |
| 2 | Strong representations were successfully made to the ITAC Committee both to preempt this and to ensure that a monopoly situation did not arise . |
| 3 | They were rarely made in the days before the first Enclosure Acts . |
| 4 | Those in a correlated condition experienced the light only after a correct response in the presence of one of the cues ( and thus , as the task was learned , increasingly often along with this cue ) ; those in an uncorrelated condition received the light after 50 per cent of rewarded responses whether these were in made in the presence of the tone or of the clicker . |
| 5 | She 'd always envied Mandy her wonderful looks and her voluptuous compact figure , but she had long ago accepted the fact that she and Mandy were not made of the same stuff . |
| 6 | Again , the imploded drums found at early US sea disposal dump sites were not made to the much tighter standards pioneered in the UK and embodied in current national and international codes of practice . |
| 7 | In the colonial courts payments were not made to the judge , but to witnesses , court officials and lawyers whose task it was to manipulate the evidence placed before the judge in order to produce an outcome favourable to the client . |
| 8 | The magnificent Persian carpets in Western museums , that are generally accepted as being the epitome of oriental textile art , were not made until the early 16th century . |
| 9 | The rules governing payment of UB and DB were changed in April 1991 to reflect the eligibility of part time workers but the Regulations to bring those new rules into effect were not made until the end of December 1992 . |
| 10 | Assessments of less than £1 were not made in the subsidy , and nearly all below £2 were based on wages , except for a few based on income from land ; and since the statutory proviso , doubtless intended to allay fears raised by the inquest of 1522 , restricted taxation to one form of wealth only , any personal property belonging to persons so taxed was ignored . |
| 11 | I should say that the markings on the copy you 're receiving are mine , they were not made in the context of this discussion . |
| 12 | Pairs of brooches often have similar values of silver , but some reveal significant differences in copper values indicating they were not made from the same batch of metal . |
| 13 | Journeys were usually made on the Friday , except for the relatively short trip to Birmingham , made on Saturday morning . |
| 14 | These were usually made by the miner at home and one can just imagine a man sitting comfortably at the kitchen table , with a bag of gunpowder which he had ground down , pile of straws , a tiny paper funnel , and puffing away on his pipe ! |
| 15 | These drawings were always made between the last few days of August and the end of October . |
| 16 | By offering protection and recourse to royal justice to all , breaches were gradually made in the dykes of princely and seigneural resistance to Capetian authority over their subjects . |
| 17 | Recordings ( not shown ) were also made between the same reference electrode and the thread electrode ( B ) connected to the stem between the cotyledonary node and leaf 1 . |
| 18 | At the same time donations were also made to the Eagle Lodge project and Dowding House , Moffat , with a further donation promised to the Cumberland Infirmary for extra portable X-ray equipment . |
| 19 | Visits were also made to the royal stables and barracks . |
| 20 | Suggestions were also made for the future development of the qualifications . |
| 21 | Preparations were also made for the smooth embarkation of new passengers and their luggage . |
| 22 | Measurements were also made with the caecum of the same animal as an internal control . |
| 23 | Connections were also made with the North British Railway branch lines at Granton and Seafield , and with the Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway at Wester Dalry ( along the spur now occupied by the western part of the West Approach Road ) . |
| 24 | Some tests were also made with the few boxes of plants available at this time . |
| 25 | Presentations were also made on the carpet ranges from the Contracts Division and by Credit Control and Marketing . |
| 26 | Comparable identifications of an image of death in other parts of the descriptive frame ( for example , in the reference to the " dead leaves ' in sentence ( g ) ) , which were not made in previous tutorials , were also made in the course of the present exercise . |
| 27 | Much of the clothing of the forest peoples of western Siberia was made of cloth woven from nettle or linen fibre , but garments were also made from the skins of deer , fish or birds . |
| 28 | Accusations were also made against the police for active complicity in crime , but proof was difficult to come by . |
| 29 | During the 1st and 2nd centuries , knife handles were often made in the form of animals . |
| 30 | Bookings were typically made through the visitors ' secretaries : agency bookings were infrequent and no use was made of reservation systems , either local or national . |