Example sentences of "made [to-vb] [adv prt] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of the reasons for failure is the need to measure more background variables , chosen to meet the needs of decision-makers ; critics of NAEP think that more effort should be made to find out the needs of such decision-makers . |
| 2 | The problem is compounded when attempts are made to find out the costs of individual services when subsidies are paid line-by-line , rather than for whole sectors ; yet this is what RENFE 's 1984 programme contract with the state claimed to achieve ( RENFE 1984a : 80 ) . |
| 3 | An effort was made to clean up the water supplies , thereby helping to reduce the transmission of water-borne agents of disease : between 1972 and 1990 , almost 1 million handpump tubewells were installed in Bangladesh . |
| 4 | Considerable efforts were then made to clean out the system but not to inform the public . |
| 5 | An effort was made to set up the stud in a more favoured , not to say more conventional , site in the foothills of the Nilgiris . |
| 6 | This afternoon frantic efforts were being made to sort out the confusion . |
| 7 | Whilst no attempt is made to play down the importance of local rules to meet local needs , the existence of certain shared values is reflected in the provisions of the Code . |
| 8 | The performance of dance and drama attended during the inspection of Matagalpa Prison was a good testimony to the efforts being made to draw out the creativity and self-expression of the prisoner . |
| 9 | Attempts were made to put out the fire . |
| 10 | ‘ Like many others , I welcome the concession that has been made to leave out the airline staff and the railway employees and all the others that are left out by the dropping of clause 54(4) . |
| 11 | Serious attempts were made to level up the resources for secondary modem schools , in order to make them comparable with grammar schools , and so achieve that parity to which Ellen Wilkinson was openly committed . |
| 12 | A request has been made to read out the module to be updated but this has been unsuccessful . |
| 13 | But with this , as with council-house building , no real attempt was made to turn back the clock on processes that were ultimately totally to transform the character of Britain 's housing market . |
| 14 | On the basis of these small but important findings , a case could be made to close down the whole of the provision in this sector . |