Example sentences of "had been made [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He told his wife ( and himself ) that he was going to meet Adam in order to break the news gently to him that these awful discoveries had been made at Wyvis Hall and that foul play might have taken place while he , Adam , was actually its owner . |
| 2 | This was found impossible , and the ship was worked back to London by the plaintiff and eight more of the original crew , with whom the agreement had been made at Cronstadt . |
| 3 | Forays had been made at night ; scaffolding had been torn down and a few workers employed in building Carewscourt had been killed . |
| 4 | However , Mr Lewis 's engagingly informal manner , and his statement at dinner that the United States ‘ would always stand on the side of justice and did n't mind admitting mistakes had been made at Versailles ’ seemed to do much to win the confidence of his lordship 's ‘ home team' ; as dinner progressed , the conversation had slowly but surely turned from topics such as the merits of Mr Lewis 's native Pennsylvania back to the conference ahead , and by the time the gentlemen were lighting their cigars , some of the speculations being offered appeared to be as intimate as those exchanged prior to Mr Lewis 's arrival . |
| 5 | I was being taken somewhere by car and a stop had been made at Kelvin 's petrol pumps opposite . |
| 6 | An attempt had been made at strangulation . |
| 7 | ( An earlier change had been made on April 25 when Kwon Hwi Hyuk had been appointed as Director of the Environment Agency after his predecessor Huh Nam Hoon was dismissed in response to the contamination of the water supply in Taegu through the dumping of 300 tonnes of phenol , a caustic chemical compound . ) |
| 8 | A previous such appeal had been made on Feb. 1 , 1992 , but had failed to meet its target of US$621,000,000 . |
| 9 | At that time [ the petitioner ] was asserting that there was no contract and purported to withdraw an offer which had been made on terms different from those that had been agreed . |
| 10 | Documentary checks might be supplemented with results of site inspections to discover whether equipment was stored solely on site , whether it had been incorporated into the works , whether stage payments had been made on time and for the agreed amount . |
| 11 | ‘ Outstanding progress ’ had been made with EFR 's design and it was planned to start construction in 1997 and have it ready for operation in 2005 . |
| 12 | But when we went for a fitting , the garments had been made with buttons just sewn onto tacky fake buttonholes . |
| 13 | The industry built up a new audience not by giving a social elite privileges but rather by suggesting that anyone who had paid their admission price would be given value for money and in particular would be given films that had been made with care and attention . |
| 14 | It was thus impossible to make the kind of pact that had been made with Clovis in France . |
| 15 | Historically this was created shortly after nineteen sixty one as a rough way of judging the submissions which had been made for sketch plan purposes on the basis of the nineteen fifty five circular . |
| 16 | His eyes , his mouth , had been made for laughter . |
| 17 | The pattern may look more obvious after the event , but it is worth pointing out that the French war in Vietnam in 1946 is sandwiched between their bombardment of Damascus and the eruption at Setif in Algeria in 1945 and their violent repression of the nationalist revolt in Madagascar in 1947 after similar claims had been made for independence within the French Union . |
| 18 | Of course the trade papers revelled in hyperbole but the claims that were being made had a greater validity than those that had been made for music-hall . |
| 19 | They had been made for Maria by a Polish émigré , Floryan Wyspianski , a man in his early thirties , who had settled in Budapest after the war . |
| 20 | It was widely reported that the UK had unsuccessfully argued at the committee meeting for a total suspension of the ERM and also that requests had been made for Germany to reduce its interest rates . |
| 21 | A claim had been made for travel outside the normal operating area , a journey which should have been authorised before it took place . |
| 22 | Leszek Balcerowicz , the Finance Minister and deputy Prime Minister , announced on Aug. 5 that he would resign after the parliamentary elections planned for October , saying that his decision had been made for family reasons . |
| 23 | It had all trees on it and looked as if it had been made for picnics . |
| 24 | The first half was in Malta and the second half in Monsummano-Terme and arrangements had been made for David to fly out there with Ken Pitt and perform ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ , one of the songs on David 's first album . |
| 25 | The rent cheque was , to my surprise , a few pounds short of the amount I was actually paying — certain deductions had been made for lighting and other odd things that were technically included in my monthly rent . |
| 26 | When combined with the growing criticisms of its injustice , these findings undermined all the claims for enlightenment and scientific efficiency that had been made for rehabilitation as a penal aim . |
| 27 | In a letter to Archy Kirkwood , MP for Roxburgh and Berwickshire , Sir Hector said that the survey made by Borders NFU , after Government lopped £2.25 per ewe off Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances , ignored very large compensating increases which had been made to farmers . |
| 28 | Peter Curd , a spokesman for NIREX said this week that ‘ preliminary approaches ’ had been made to ICI about the mine , which is some 300 m deep . |
| 29 | Opening the eighth session of the People 's Assembly on Sept. 19 , Chissano reported that official visits had been made to Algeria , Ghana , Libya , Portugal , Rwanda , Spain , Switzerland , Uganda , the United Kingdom and the United States . |
| 30 | Mr Anderton said he was disappointed that he could not afford to keep Vaila , adding that various attempts had been made to interest public and environmental agencies to buy it for the enjoyment of the public . |