Example sentences of "be made about [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 If public medical statements have been made about a man 's deleterious effect on his son 's psyche there is bound to be anxiety and embarrassment attendant on their meeting .
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 In the statistical analysis of economic data , assumptions are made about the way time series evolve , about the characteristics of the population from which a cross-sectional sample is drawn , and about the nature of the relationships between variables .
14 The criterion of distortion is that statements are made about the society which by social-scientific methods can be shown to be positively in error , whereas selectivity [ i.e. primary selectivity ] is involved where the statements are , at the proper level , ‘ true ’ , but do not constitute a balanced account of the available truth .
15 Even though school generated activities are not taking place at these times judgements are made about the standard of work on display and the general state of order and cleanliness .
16 However , as I will show , there may be no consideration of way of life when decisions are made about the closure of particular schools .
17 What assumptions are made about the audience 's understanding of educational shorthand/jargon and their grasp of basic skills ?
18 Detailed recommendations are made about the amount and kind of training in English language teaching appropriate for primary teachers , and for English teachers and teachers of other subjects in secondary schools ; the report 's own model is recommended as a basis for these .
19 In this type of short story , large claims are made about the effect of the reading experience .
20 The observational data reveal that qualitative judgements are made about the seriousness of particular types of crime , evaluations which are often conveyed in casual remarks made in the real-life situations of policing ‘ little crime ’ .
21 Stock replenishment for established customers when an enquiry can be made about a re-ordering possibility .
22 The paper does not specify how a decision can be made about a word 's identity during continuous speech .
23 Whilst data presented in graphical form have pictorial value , permitting crude general statements to be made about a sediment , they are of little value for detailed comparisons with other samples .
24 The same points can be made about the activity and products of educational research .
25 This , of course , will involve the modeller in finding out about how price competitive the market is , SO that reasonable assumptions can be made about the influence of price competition on the sales of any one supplier , and on sales in the market as a whole .
26 Perhaps the most general point to be made about the survey proper is that it should be regarded as an end-point to be reached after careful preparation .
27 If decisions are to be made about the deployment of resources or the implementation of the curriculum then they should be made on accurate and reliable information .
28 Ernest Gellner and Alastair MacIntyre have both argued for the need for a judgement to be made about the degree of internal coherence and rationality in belief systems , before the sociologist can know what type of explanation to apply to the beliefs he is studying .
29 The publication of full inspection reports gives another source from which inferences can be made about the work of HMI , and here we will consider two critiques that have used them .
30 Another point that might be made about the relationship between the ‘ form-words ’ of grammar and the ‘ full words ’ of lexis is that it follows from the kind of auxiliary , context-complementary function of grammar being proposed here that the proportional occurrence of these words will vary in different kinds of discourse .
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