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

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1 Decisions were made at the top , by monarch , Council , or minister , not , as in a modern bureaucracy , by officials in the lower and middle echelons , who then mostly carried out routine tasks .
2 Certain unspecified revisions were made at the request of the Council of Constitutional Guardians .
3 Clinical , sigmoidoscopic , biopsy , haematological , and biochemical assessments were made at the beginning and end of the four week trial period or when patients were withdrawn prematurely .
4 In October Macmillan went into hospital and resigned as Prime Minister ; the implausible Lord Home , incorporating the highest virtues of the traditional Tory , succeeded him ( becoming plain Sir Alec in the process ) but no changes were made at the Ministry of Education .
5 SENSIBLY , speeches were made at the start of Sir Kingsley Amis 's 70th birthday party at the Savoy Hotel yesterday .
6 There was no doubt these eleventh-hour changes were made at the wish of Pope Paul , acting to retain the support of the minority .
7 The announcements were made at the InterOp conference in Washington .
8 Editor 's Note : The report was misleading in suggesting Mr Bacon 's remarks were made at the inquiry .
9 In 1893 the following notes were made at the death-bed of a Dissenting Minister :
10 Notwithstanding the efforts that were made at the conference to din the contradiction between conservation and utilitarianism into the brains behind DOCOMOMO , the lure of the rolling expense accounts of museum culture was too strong .
11 Very few territorial changes were made at the end of the war , and none of any significance overseas .
12 Production declined and exports were made at the expense of reserves accumulated in the warehouses .
13 After two cancellations that were made at the behest of the managing director , Peter Threfall , I had had enough .
14 The steel mainframe was fabricated by McKenzie & Brown of Caernarfon , the all-aluminium body was constructed by Carnforth Railway Restoration and Engineering Services , while the Pattern 88 semi-self steering bogies were made at the railway 's Boston Lodge Works , where the fitting out has also been accomplished .
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