Example sentences of "be made [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he was he would be bound by a pre-existing collective agreement that had been made between the union and North Star Yachts Ltd . |
| 2 | Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style . |
| 3 | We attempt to do this in the next chapter , but before embarking on this task we must note some of the criticisms which have been made about the Braverman thesis and its implications . |
| 4 | A Housing Executive spokeswoman said no final decision had been made about the case . |
| 5 | Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis . |
| 6 | Various suggestions have been made about the meaning of this darkness . |
| 7 | The point has been made about the importance of having local businessmen . |
| 8 | General remarks have been made about the role of mass media , pluralism , breakdown of traditional morality , etc. , but theorists have not as yet developed their ideas with historical precision . |
| 9 | The Parish Council are very disturbed by the decisions that would appear to have been made about the sale and subsequent development of this small area of open land and more especially by the tactics used by the Land and Properties Sub-Committee and the apparent collusion with the Planning Department to keep the Parish Council , and therefore the local people , in the dark about what is going on . |
| 10 | Serious allegations have been made about the running of some private homes . |
| 11 | The most cheerful remarks seemed to have been made about the health of Michael Heseltine , who was making his first appearance at the cabinet since his heart attack . |
| 12 | This is a matter that is worth some brief discussion , since it is closely connected with the fuss that has been made about the application of the term ‘ altruism ’ to animal as to human behaviour . |
| 13 | When an owner of property against whom an order has been made under the Act comes into this court and complains that there has been some irregularity in the proceedings , and that he is not liable to have his property taken away , it is right , I think , that his case should be entertained sympathetically and that a statute under which he is being deprived of his rights to property should be construed strictly against the local authority and favourably towards the interest of the applicant , in as much as he for the benefit of the community is undoubtedly suffering a substantial loss , which in my view must not be inflicted upon him unless it is quite clear that Parliament has intended that it shall . |
| 14 | No arrests had been made under the law , which regulated penalties for records deemed ‘ too erotic ’ by the state 's legislators . |
| 15 | Prosecutions might have been made under the law of conspiracy or under 5 Elizabeth for leaving work unfinished , but to trade unionists they were all " the laws against combination " . |
| 16 | When there has been a contravention of subsection ( 1 ) of section 89 or of any of subsections ( 1 ) to ( 6 ) of section 90 or of a provision to which subsection ( 3 ) of section 89 applies , the company and every officer of it who knowingly authorised or permitted the contravention are jointly and severally liable to compensate any person , to whom an offer should have been made under the subsection or provision , for any loss , damage costs or expenses . |
| 17 | On the contrary : we see the cost disclosure regulations which have now been made under the Consumer Credit Act ( see chapter 5 ) as highly important . |
| 18 | Explanation : These are statements that have been made without the provision of supporting evidence ; for example , Keith is said to be aggressive but the person writing the information has not said why . |
| 19 | Aydid 's office criticized the UN move which , it was asserted , had been made without the permission of the SNA or of the allied United Somali Congress ( USC ) . |
| 20 | Yeah we 've got the daily contact each morning with one of the , one of the er council employees , they 'll come up approximately between eight and nine , and we 'll hand over any incidents reports that have been made during the night . |
| 21 | Marriages had been made during the war , but many damaged or broken by war , too . |
| 22 | Great advances have already been made towards the achievement of a Europe without internal frontiers on the target date of 31 December 1992 , but even that date will not signal the end of the road for three reasons : |
| 23 | And an allocation of £800,000 has recently been made towards the cost of providing a 40-bed unit for the elderly at Aberdare general hospital . |
| 24 | This has been the case in the past 30 years , and for those on low wages it has meant a relatively lower contribution has been made towards the State Earnings Related Pension Scheme . |
| 25 | The first quarter deficit had been about 80,000 million roubles , although January and February had shown a 12,200 million rouble surplus , as concessions on social spending and tax cuts had been made towards the end of the first quarter . |
| 26 | Apart from perhaps the use of story grammars [ Mandler & johnson , 1977 ] and the concept of macrostructure formation [ Kintsch & van Dijk , 1983 ] , very little progress has been made towards the implementation of discourse rules in NLP systems . |
| 27 | Important steps have been made towards the confirmation of commerciality of the Tempa Rossa oil field in southern Italy . |
| 28 | Since then , events have moved on and despite the media losing interest in the proceedings , progress has been made towards the draft legislation being amended to include snack foods in the list of permitted categories . |
| 29 | I can only repeat here , the apologies which have been made outside the house . |
| 30 | Anthony Ingle is collecting material , on behalf of the Peter Warlock Society , for an archive and a discography of all the recordings that have been made of the music of Peter Warlock . |