Example sentences of "[was/were] make for the [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In fact , the quack cancer therapy laetrile is nothing more than apricot kernels , and although high-sounding claims were made for the effects of nature 's cyanide on rampant cells , laetrile has proved useless .
2 Of these , a total of 71 safety proposals were made for the railways .
3 Now this is in his key messages , and towards the back , there are two pages , where he complains that many promises were made for the facilities management contract , and in particular , erm , he says it is still the case that work to take advantage of the development faci facility has not yet been identified , now I think this is the thing we spent a million pounds on it , and are not using it .
4 No estimates of perinatal mortality rates were made for the units where few referrals and subsequent perinatal deaths occurred .
5 But when allowance was made for the influences of all the other planets on Mercury then there was a residual precession unaccounted for of 43′ per century , as shown for 200 centuries in Figure 7.1 .
6 There was also much legal debate over the intention not to allow divorce unless adequate and proper provision was made for the dependants .
7 B.1.1 put the Purchaser into the position which would have existed had such matter been as so warranted , represented or undertaken by paying to the Purchaser a sum equal to the amount by which the value or amount at Completion of any assets or liabilities of the Business ( computed for this purpose on the basis that full provision was made for the facts and circumstances in relation to which such breach arose ) was less or ( as the case may be ) more than the value or amount at Completion of such assets or liabilities ( computed on the assumption that the facts and circumstances had been such as to involve no such breach ) together with all costs and expenses incurred or any other loss or damage suffered by the Purchaser as a result of such breach ; or ( if the Purchaser shall so elect ) .
8 It was made for the Dolls ' House by Hardy Bros Ltd. and presented by Mr W. Hardy , father of today 's Marketing Director , Mr James Hardy , who found this invitation discarded with some rubbish when the factory moved in 1965 .
9 I was making for the hills , and hoping to come back through Peterchurch . ’
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