Example sentences of "[was/were] made by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I congratulate them all on the quiet dignity and courage that they have displayed in recent weeks while vile , vicious and baseless allegations were made by a proven liar . |
| 2 | Profits were made by a small number of heavily promoted productions . |
| 3 | They were made by a small four-footed creature , almost certainly a lizard-like reptile , running across a beach . |
| 4 | It 's understood that allegations of indecency were made by a 17 year old trainee monk in Brixton . |
| 5 | ‘ But you must agree that the footprints were made by a living creature , not a ghost ? ’ |
| 6 | As well as the waterway , Healings own a fleet of road tankers for grain transport , and the location of motorway junctions , built in the 1970s and 1980s near Tewkesbury , has also been of great advantage a far cry from the early years of the century , when deliveries were made by a 12 mph Foden lorry . |
| 7 | The accusations were made by a self-confessed former Communist agent named Whittaker Chambers . |
| 8 | Phonemic transcriptions were made by a trained phonetician of the 80 sentences listed in Appendix 1 . |
| 9 | The principal arguments for a policy of CPD were advanced in the Brett-Jones Report of 1978 and although none could be refuted in a responsible way , it was not until 1 January 1981 that Regulations were made by the General Council of the RICS to make compulsory , and to regulate , members ' Continuing Professional Development . |
| 10 | Significant changes were made by the Supreme Court Act 1981 in the arrangements for the management of the business of the civil division of the Court of Appeal . |
| 11 | Objections to the licensing were made by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee on behalf of the RSPB , English Nature , Scottish Natural Heritage and the Countryside Council for Wales [ the latter three being the government 's official conservation advisers ] . |
| 12 | According to the French Minister of Health ( who stepped in when attempts were made by the anti-abortion lobby around the world to stop it being sold ) , this pill is the ‘ moral property of women ’ . |
| 13 | He believed that people were made by the impersonal forces of history , not by greed , malice and lust . |
| 14 | Gains were made by the Labour Party , which won 90 seats ( 58 in 1985 ) , and by the Workers ' Party , which won 24 seats ( 20 ) . |
| 15 | To complicate matters further , substantial changes in criminal and penal law were made by the Criminal Justice Act , 1967 . |
| 16 | The earliest discoveries in mathematics were made by the great physicists and astronomers in the course of their work , and in those days great scientists had to be great mathematicians . |
| 17 | The ship was laden with gold , silver and emeralds from Colombia and unsuccessful attempts were made by the Spanish government to salvage the ship immediately after it sank . |
| 18 | After these statements were made by the Financial Secretary the Bill passed into law without further discussion on this aspect of the matter . |
| 19 | Thirteen of them were made by the electrical process in 1930–31 , but three were acoustically produced ten years earlier . |
| 20 | The arrangements for the service were made by the Rotary Club of Arcadia , the service being held at the graveside of the British Plot in Oak Ridge Cemetery . |
| 21 | During the months that followed , as Mussolini bombed and gassed the Abyssinians into subjection , no serious attempts were made by the British Government to implement effective sanctions . |
| 22 | Representations were made by the British delegation to liberalise the present draft to allow foreign lawyers to practise more easily in Romania . |
| 23 | This should remind us that not all enclosures were made by the land-owning class , but could be the work of the peasants themselves . |
| 24 | Remarks were made by the local rivals , not about dancing standards as the Mites were inevitably highly experienced and could not be faulted , but more was made of their apparent roughness : |
| 25 | Ritual offerings of meat , spices and wines were made by the mortal family to propitiate the restless spirit . |
| 26 | We followed up the representations that were made by the hon. Lady and by others on that point , and the regional offices of the Department of Employment have been in negotiation with TECs to try to establish the extent to which they need additional resources to meet the YT guarantee . |
| 27 | As my hon. Friends have said , the original calculations were made by the Inland Revenue and had nothing to do with the borough of Newham . |
| 28 | The greatest gains were made by the separatist Northern League , which increased its vote from … 5 of a per cent to 9.3 per cent for the lower house . |
| 29 | Bombing raids were made by the Turkish armed forces against the guerrilla bases of the Kurdish Workers ' Party ( PKK ) for about two weeks from Jan. 8 . |
| 30 | The court heard that the allegations were made by an international conman called Barry Edward Gray , who operated under aliases and specialised in ‘ stings ’ in Britain and abroad . |