Example sentences of "[was/were] make at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Decisions were made at the top , by monarch , Council , or minister , not , as in a modern bureaucracy , by officials in the lower and middle echelons , who then mostly carried out routine tasks . |
| 2 | Certain unspecified revisions were made at the request of the Council of Constitutional Guardians . |
| 3 | Clinical , sigmoidoscopic , biopsy , haematological , and biochemical assessments were made at the beginning and end of the four week trial period or when patients were withdrawn prematurely . |
| 4 | In October Macmillan went into hospital and resigned as Prime Minister ; the implausible Lord Home , incorporating the highest virtues of the traditional Tory , succeeded him ( becoming plain Sir Alec in the process ) but no changes were made at the Ministry of Education . |
| 5 | SENSIBLY , speeches were made at the start of Sir Kingsley Amis 's 70th birthday party at the Savoy Hotel yesterday . |
| 6 | There was no doubt these eleventh-hour changes were made at the wish of Pope Paul , acting to retain the support of the minority . |
| 7 | The announcements were made at the InterOp conference in Washington . |
| 8 | Editor 's Note : The report was misleading in suggesting Mr Bacon 's remarks were made at the inquiry . |
| 9 | In 1893 the following notes were made at the death-bed of a Dissenting Minister : |
| 10 | Notwithstanding the efforts that were made at the conference to din the contradiction between conservation and utilitarianism into the brains behind DOCOMOMO , the lure of the rolling expense accounts of museum culture was too strong . |
| 11 | Very few territorial changes were made at the end of the war , and none of any significance overseas . |
| 12 | Production declined and exports were made at the expense of reserves accumulated in the warehouses . |
| 13 | After two cancellations that were made at the behest of the managing director , Peter Threfall , I had had enough . |
| 14 | The steel mainframe was fabricated by McKenzie & Brown of Caernarfon , the all-aluminium body was constructed by Carnforth Railway Restoration and Engineering Services , while the Pattern 88 semi-self steering bogies were made at the railway 's Boston Lodge Works , where the fitting out has also been accomplished . |
| 15 | The first portrait ( top left ) was made at the beginning of his reign , in about 30 BC , and is derived from Hellenistic royal models ( compare fig. 14 ) . |
| 16 | The announcement was made at the beginning of October . |
| 17 | The film was made at the request of a Belgian organization and will be dubbed from English into French and Flemish . |
| 18 | The original five-year ban , which expired in March this year , was made at the request of the Salvadorean government and is intended to protect the significant archaeological sites in the Cara Sucia region where stone and ceramic artifacts have been uncovered . |
| 19 | The vote was made at the request of Mitsotakis after he dismissed Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and assumed the post himself on April 13 . |
| 20 | On Nov. 13 the government postponed the constitutional referendum ( due on Nov. 28 ) to Dec. 26 ; the move was made at the request of all political parties following complaints that electoral lists were incomplete . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’ |
| 23 | The announcement was made at the opening of the ‘ Spassenje ’ ( Rescue ) charity appeal , whose aim is to make up the shortfall of $15 million dollars still needed to complete the gallery 's reconstruction . |
| 24 | A further attempt at a settlement was made at the council of Austerfield in Northumbria c . |
| 25 | Although little headway was made at the meeting , the committee agreed to meet again on April 1 . |
| 26 | The contract was made at the reception desk . |
| 27 | Some felt a leaping in their spirits at the moment when the announcement was made at the AGM , something which they knew was from God . |
| 28 | The presentation was made at the Group 's Christmas meeting by Dr H. A. O. Hill , FRS , ( Oxford ) , one of the founders of the IBDG . |
| 29 | Trolleybuses ceased to run on route 654 on the night of Tuesday 3 March 1959 , when an official last run was made at the instigation of the Wallington and Carshalton Advertiser . |
| 30 | Bland believes that a catastrophic faux pas was made at the start of the 1980s when the Scandinavians introduced the red light against the South African golfers . |