Example sentences of "be make [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Reference has been made already to the debilitating effect of prolonged public criticism upon the morale of teachers and the potential damage it can have for educational standards . |
| 2 | Some mention has been made already of the salutary effect which business support can have on motivation in schools . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you trying to tell me , ’ Richmann began dangerously , ‘ that these changes in plan have been made just on the basis of your superstitious intuition that the newest arrivals on the island are somehow dangerous ? ’ |
| 4 | There may be a collecting bias against the foot bones , however , because they are small and easily overlooked , and so a comparison has been made here between the proximal and distal limb elements , the former being the femur and humerus , and the latter represented by the tibia and radius ( values for ulna are very similar ) . |
| 5 | In Thackeray 's Pendennis ( 1848–50 ) , for example , Lady Clavering , whose London house has been made over to the interior decorators , is put out of countenance by the result . |
| 6 | This point has been made strongly about the Home Help Service , arguably the most crucial support for old people in the community , by Goldberg and Connelly ( 1982 ) , and more recently by the Audit Commission ( 1985 ) . |
| 7 | Reference has been made elsewhere to the early county histories written in the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , sometimes by gentlemen in the priesthood . |
| 8 | Documentary programmes : These are usually made by the TV companies themselves , but there have been occasions where the film has been made jointly with an outside organisation . |
| 9 | The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's |
| 10 | Reference has been made today to the rights of victims . |
| 11 | The high correlation of bursts of rapid eye movements with intense dreaming tended to encourage early investigators in their impression that the eye movements were following the actions of 70–80 per cent of vivid dreams.19 However , when blind matches of EOG records with dream narratives have been made simply on the basis of written evidence and the polygraphic record , matching of reports to records has been no better than chance . |
| 12 | The assignments in polymer mechanics have been made largely as a result of experimental work with chemical analogues of the polymer under study — for example for polystyrene by the use of substitutions one the position of the ( glass-rubber ) and other transitions is observed , and some , largely qualitative , rules laid down . |
| 13 | Again she was plied with whisky , but this time in hot water and sweetened with brown sugar ; she was then led to the sitting-room couch that had been made up as a bed for her . |
| 14 | But she had insisted , and although the room was warm , and the kitchen stove had already been made up for the night , I had gone — yet it was a strange experience to me , and rather a frightening one , to have been persuaded by someone near to me into doing even so small a thing I felt to be hazardous . ) |
| 15 | A typical data processing ( DP ) department of the 1960's would have been made up of the following components : |
| 16 | They 're the ones that could have been made up from a kit , I always think , each part clearly demarcated ( bill , box-like head , neck ) — a rather angular goose . |
| 17 | I suspect this has been made up by the Friends of Ben Wyvis Society , who are making an attempt to liven up the image of one of the dullest Munros . |
| 18 | Books that tell a story which has been made up by the writer . |
| 19 | Since the catastrophic drop in attendance at the National Museum of Wales — a reduction which has largely been made up by the efforts of the museum staff — there is still bitter resentment among Welsh people that a barrier prevents them from seeing the treasures of Wales that were purchased and the national museum that was established as an expression of Welsh identity . |
| 20 | In the past they have been made implicitly by the providers , although general practitioners may have adjusted their referral patterns based on knowledge about their patients ' preferences and clinical practice in given hospitals . |
| 21 | This point has now been made frequently over the past few years , as for instance in this passage from the Gulbenkian Report , The Arts in Schools ( 1982 ) : |
| 22 | My character has been made exactly like a girl ’ . |
| 23 | Inside , the columns are often from ruined Roman buildings but the capitals have been made specifically for the church and therefore the general interior scheme is more congruous than examples in Rome . |
| 24 | Comments on the Roman site have been made almost without a break since the Roman period . |
| 25 | We were introduced to the Mint House and , as Nancy and I listened , we learnt that money had been made there before the Royal Mint in London . |
| 26 | So that 's all got to happen and can we expect that the improvements that have been made now to the syst to the management of this process will not give rise to the same delays that occurred in getting this system flight safe . |
| 27 | Good progress has been made recently towards the establishment of chairmen and regional fundraising committees . |
| 28 | It reveals all that has been said in the many policy launches and the speeches that have been made all over the country . |
| 29 | The sets , often exquisitely detailed illusion painted on flats or fixed on netting , date from the early 1950s , but the costumes have been made afresh from the original designs and the production is relatively new . |
| 30 | ‘ It looks as if it 's been made out of a tree and it feels lovely . |