Example sentences of "were made in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most of these criticisms were made in the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 2 | Measures taken at the half year have cut the financing requirement , and small debt repayments were made in the second half . |
| 3 | The ‘ Marathon ’ discs of 1912 ( 48 ) were made in the usual ten-inch and twelve-inch diameters , but with finer grooves . |
| 4 | The technical way in which judicial decisions were made in the colonial courts was alien to indigenous tribunals but not to Sinhalese culture in general . |
| 5 | More significant concessions were made in the 1920s , when a majority of the Legislative Council was elected by a franchise limited by ethnicity , education and wealth . |
| 6 | Most of these covers were made in the late eighteenth century or the early nineteenth , and often give away their date in their names . |
| 7 | Recognition of Carver 's importance was stimulated when an edition of the extant works was published in 1959 ; several recordings were made in the late 1980s , and a complete cycle of the masses and motets was performed in Glasgow in July 1990 . |
| 8 | This is now a symbolic exchange , but it is a relic of the numerous treaties that once were made in the Pyrenean valleys to regulate the use of the high , communal pastures and put an end to the age-old practice of trespass or holding to ransom of intrusive livestock . |
| 9 | A more precise source for this than archaeology is the record of tax assessments , and more particularly the grants of tax relief which were made in the fifteenth-century reassessments . |
| 10 | Further free climbs of aided routes were made in the 70s , including that of The Ghost , by Ed Drummond and Tom Proctor . |
| 11 | In Mary 's reign , between 1542 and 1574 , when the civil war which followed her deposition was finally over , there were twenty-five large-scale bonds involving groups of people , five of which were made in the first six years of the minority , as well as the thirty-six individual bonds made mainly for political purposes by Arran and Mary of Guise , and the two by Beaton which , in view of the comment by John Knox about the extensive number of his bonds , can only be a small proportion of the total . |
| 12 | The cash figure in the balance sheet might include both capital and operating cash : if a debenture is issued but the resulting cash has not yet been invested in fixed assets , then the cash will perhaps be shown in the cash book — this is capital cash ; if profits were made in the current year , some of these profits might take the form of cash — this is operating cash . |
| 13 | Various attempts were made in the 1974-1979 Parliament to introduce PR throughout the United Kingdom for elections to the European Parliament and for elections to the proposed assemblies in Scotland and Wales . |
| 14 | A few other studies were made in the 1970s , by women , about the problems which unions raised for women as well as the problems which women raised for the unions ( Cunnison , 1983 ; Coote and Kellner , 1981 ; Stageman , 1980 ; Harrison , 1969 , 1980 ) . |
| 15 | This ice cream boasts American parentage , though its ancestry goes back to the exotic sherbets which were made in the Arab kingdoms of Granada and Cordoba in Spain . |
| 16 | The great bronze doors of the central doorway , which lead from the narthex into the cathedral , were made in the early twelfth century and are decorated in silver . |
| 17 | Unsuccessful attempts to replace it were made in the fifties and sixties . |
| 18 | He had built pianos by the end of the 17th century , but the three pianos by him that still exist were made in the 17205 . |
| 19 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 20 | Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed . |
| 21 | Clement Attlee announced that the British Empire and Commonwealth , being based on Christian principles , was ‘ the exact contrast to the Nazi conception of a world order ’ , which was the expression of the creed of Antichrist , and countless other speeches were made in the same vein . |
| 22 | His original mind and interests in music , linguistics and the human voice led him to study the problems of deaf education and to invent " The New Sign Language , " in which every sign was a pantomimic version of the spoken word and in which signs were made in the same order and in the same sequel as the words of normal speech . |
| 23 | By comparing the fineness of the Sutton Hoo coins themselves with this trend , it was possible to say that the basest and therefore latest coins in the purse were made in the 620s AD , thus defining the earliest probable date for the ship burial . |
| 24 | The most conspicuous financial gains by English combatants were made in the earlier phase of the Anglo-French wars or in the wars with Scotland — the esquire John Coupland , who captured David 11 of Scotland in 1346 , received lands worth £500 a year and the status of banneret , and many in the English army at Poitiers in 1356 received rich rewards ( 88 , p.30 ) . |
| 25 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 26 | Many of the films , priced at £12 to £90 , were made in the Third World . |
| 27 | Some large issues were made in the 1980s and turnover of eurosterling bonds has increased as has turnover of eurobonds in general . |
| 28 | Laboratory experiments were made in the 1950s to discover what might happen to these particular chemical constituents under such conditions . |
| 29 | Four microinjections of WGA-HRP were made in the left occipital operculum of two rhesus monkeys ( Macaca multatta ) to mark and surround the foveal and perifoveal representation , and the sectioned brains and flat-mounted retinae were processed to reveal the injection sites and the loci of labelled retinal ganglion cells that projected topographically to those sites ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 30 | Thaxted church was built in about 1340 and the finishing touches were made in the 1550s ; with its magnificent structure it could easily have been the cathedral of north-west Essex if one had ever been needed . |