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

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1 The same points can be made about the activity and products of educational research .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 But at the time it was thought that the record had yielded up its secrets in sufficient quantities to allow confident assertions to be made about the character of the evolutionary mechanism .
9 Similar comments might be made about the speaker variable of social ambition used by Douglas-Cowie ( 1978 ) to account for linguistic variation in a Northern Irish village .
10 Only a good monitoring system would allow judgements to be made about the possibility of moving long-stay patients out of the asylums on a large scale .
11 Two other points should be made about the notion of ‘ stance ’ .
12 Another type is problem-solving calls , such as helping owners with injured dogs ( provoking enough interest for subsequent enquiries to be made about the dog 's progress ) ; giving impromptu lessons on road safety to young children who have narrowly avoided accidents ; and dealing with arguments between neighbours ( usually over noise ) and family disputes .
13 Until the microstructure of ultra-drawn polymers can be unequivocally revealed no final answers can be made about the validity of the various models .
14 The observed data on income , wealth , etc. , do not correspond accurately to the theoretical constructs ; the empirical procedures have to rely on proxy measures ; assumptions have to be made about the extent to which people benefit from different public programmes and about incidence .
15 It is also possible to construct facies and isopach maps from logs and using these maps , predictions can be made about the distribution of potential reservoir rocks .
16 Two of them were among the first documentaries to be made about the war , and thus have considerable historical importance .
17 The note gives guidance on the enquiries that should be made about the investment business control environment , including the business 's higher level procedures for complying with the conduct of business rules .
18 Two further general observations can be made about the view of economic change that is held by Bell and other post-industrial writers .
19 The final stage is to communicate the findings of the audit to the procedure owner , to allow decisions to be made about the action to be taken .
20 Much the same comment may be made about the effect of side-walls .
21 A Scotland Yard spokeswoman said no comment would be made about the filofax theft in Northern Ireland .
22 According to the other dogma , there are no events which have such unique significance and therefore no universally valid affirmation can be made about the meaning of history as a whole ’ ( Newbigin 1978:174 ) .
23 A decision might have to be made about the number of elderly people for which it is possible to take responsibility in any one family .
24 There are numerous assumptions that can be made about the pattern of expected future dividends .
25 The onus on his/her ingenuity is reflected in the wide range of decisions that have to be made about the context in which tokens occur .
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