Example sentences of "was make at the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The first portrait ( top left ) was made at the beginning of his reign , in about 30 BC , and is derived from Hellenistic royal models ( compare fig. 14 ) .
2 The announcement was made at the beginning of October .
3 The film was made at the request of a Belgian organization and will be dubbed from English into French and Flemish .
4 The original five-year ban , which expired in March this year , was made at the request of the Salvadorean government and is intended to protect the significant archaeological sites in the Cara Sucia region where stone and ceramic artifacts have been uncovered .
5 The vote was made at the request of Mitsotakis after he dismissed Foreign Minister Antonis Samaras and assumed the post himself on April 13 .
6 On Nov. 13 the government postponed the constitutional referendum ( due on Nov. 28 ) to Dec. 26 ; the move was made at the request of all political parties following complaints that electoral lists were incomplete .
7 The inclusion of the article relating to troop withdrawals was made at the insistence of the leaders of Estonia , Latvia and Lithuania who had reportedly threatened not to sign the declaration , so preventing its adoption , without an agreement on the withdrawal of Russian troops from the Baltic states .
8 ‘ In fact , no disconnection was made at the fuse end , and although at the other relay end the old wire was disconnected , it was not cut back as it should have been , nor was it secured out of the way of its previous contact . ’
9 The announcement was made at the opening of the ‘ Spassenje ’ ( Rescue ) charity appeal , whose aim is to make up the shortfall of $15 million dollars still needed to complete the gallery 's reconstruction .
10 A further attempt at a settlement was made at the council of Austerfield in Northumbria c .
11 Although little headway was made at the meeting , the committee agreed to meet again on April 1 .
12 The contract was made at the reception desk .
13 Some felt a leaping in their spirits at the moment when the announcement was made at the AGM , something which they knew was from God .
14 The presentation was made at the Group 's Christmas meeting by Dr H. A. O. Hill , FRS , ( Oxford ) , one of the founders of the IBDG .
15 Trolleybuses ceased to run on route 654 on the night of Tuesday 3 March 1959 , when an official last run was made at the instigation of the Wallington and Carshalton Advertiser .
16 Bland believes that a catastrophic faux pas was made at the start of the 1980s when the Scandinavians introduced the red light against the South African golfers .
17 The quay was again extended when a tunnel was made through the island in 1934–9 , further extended in 1957–62 and achieved its present length in the 1970s , when a storage area for containers was made at the end .
18 In 1958 , Reginald Bassett lamented the fact ‘ that no study of the General Election of 1931 was made at the time on the lines of the extremely useful studies of the 1945 and subsequent General Elections sponsored by Nuffield College ’ .
19 Much was made at the time of the Prince 's engagement of the youthfulness and consequent innocence of his bride .
20 If the house was formerly in the sole name of the husband it would be quite appropriate for the wife 's solicitors to insist on a full abstract of title commencing with a good root of title ( although in practice it seems to be accepted that the title was properly investigated at the time of the husband 's purchase ) ; but in the case of a house already in joint names it is thought that this could be dispensed with , the wife 's solicitor assuming that a proper investigation of title to the property was made at the time when the house was purchased by the husband and the wife .
21 Buying a ticket for last night 's game does NOT guarantee one for the all-Ireland clash in November — unless a formal application was made at the time of purchase to the IFA office .
22 The choices she faces are the choices that India itself was making at the time . ’
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