Example sentences of "[was/were] make [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first attempts at producing a problem-solving machine , or computer , were made during the Second World War as Allied scientists sought to break enemy codes . |
| 2 | No attacks were made on the 401st Bomb Group , but vicious assaults were made by the enemy fighters on the bomber wing that was flying alongside them . |
| 3 | Detailed studies of the distribution of animals and plants were made throughout the nineteenth century , often employing amateurs to do the actual surveying under the leadership of a few professionals . |
| 4 | Both lustre and blue-on-white wares were made from the mid-thirteenth century to the late fifteenth century at Malaga and a typical example of a wide dish decorated in lustre and blue is shown in Figure 6.1 . |
| 5 | Measures taken at the half year have cut the financing requirement , and small debt repayments were made in the second half . |
| 6 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 7 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 9 | Many of the films , priced at £12 to £90 , were made in the Third World . |
| 10 | Sixty two Firefly engines were made in the mid-nineteenth century and not one of them has survived the scrapheap . |
| 11 | Comity considerations were viewed with much more favour , and reference was made to the Second Restatement of Foreign Relations Law of the United States which , in a recent revision , had identified factors to be weighed in cases of discovery abroad : |
| 12 | The claim was made on the fourth day of a public hearing into Newtownabbey Borough Council 's controversial plans to build a town hall and civic centre at the Hazelbank Park on the shores of Belfast Lough . |
| 13 | The decision to go chapter 11 was made on the 21st of May — the company 's 10th birthday . |
| 14 | More important , in 1762 recruitment was made for the first time a direct concern of the government , taking it out of the hands of the regimental officers who had hitherto controlled it . |
| 15 | The statement was made at the fifth session of the negotiating committee of the UN Inter-Governmental Panel on Climate Change , meeting in New York . |
| 16 | For the Irish squad to tour New Zealand will not be fit enough — the IRFU decision to send fitness advisor Eddie O'Sullivan with the team was made at the eleventh hour . |
| 17 | The above statement was made at the Sixth Annual Conference on Library Orientation for Academic Libraries at Eastern Michigan University in 1976 . |
| 18 | The Chief Officer said quite clearly last er last time that the decisions were decisions for members and members came up with a view last time that we should not remove that whole time crew from St Albans which was the one firm decision that was made at the last meeting and what Councillor is now suggesting that we should take out those twenty eight whole time fire fighters and then try and give us ten back if we 're lucky . |
| 19 | The dramatic story of the royal rescue has always attracted visitors , and an attempt to ‘ restore ’ the house to its appearance when Charles was here was made in the 19th century in deference to this appeal . |
| 20 | It 's just difficult to know why the final decision was changed and where it was made in the first place . |
| 21 | A distinction was made in the first chapter between three types of risk , objective , estimated and subjective , and the assumption was made that subjective risk is closely related to the concept of arousal as it has been used in much memory research . |
| 22 | But once some set of rules has been established in this way , we might well think it more important that these rules be publicly regarded as settled , so that people can plan accordingly , than that they be the best rules that could have been found ; this provides a reason why courts should leave the rule untouched even when they think the wrong choice was made in the first instance . " |
| 23 | It was made in the 15th century and meant to keep holy relics but , at its feet , newly married couples used to promise each other eternal love and fidelity . |
| 24 | No such distinction was made in the sixteenth century . |
| 25 | Here a determined attempt was made in the last decades of the fourth century to uphold the ancient Roman religion along with the classical culture with which it was associated . |
| 26 | Lastly , the Spanish Government argued that the possibility afforded by the Act of 1988 of exempting certain persons from the nationality condition to which reference was made in the last part of the national court 's question ( 2 ) in no way altered the foregoing considerations . |
| 27 | The clinical diagnosis of colorectal carcinoma was made after the first assessment by the clinician in 13 cases ; four of five cases with carcinoma and nine of 88 without carcinoma giving a sensitivity of 80% and specificity of 90% . |
| 28 | It was it 's a previous budget decision , I want to make that point , it was made before the last budget , and this has been a sort of a year of negotiations , that 's the first point and |
| 29 | It 's a lot of money Well this is that Ian was making in the first place is n't it , product actually |