Example sentences of "been made [prep] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ One telephone call which could easily have been faked from any phone box , a letter which no one outside the family has seen , and a pay-off which will supposedly take place once arrangements have been made over a telephone number they refuse to disclose .
2 A few months later , Harry Goodman responded with a full frontal attack , claiming that 9000 children in the care of the RCM had ‘ practically no Jewish contacts and that no effort had been made over a period of years to give these children some religious education ’ .
3 No decision has been made over a youth coach , a position Hankin held before his sudden promotion to the manager 's office .
4 If he was he would be bound by a pre-existing collective agreement that had been made between the union and North Star Yachts Ltd .
5 If public medical statements have been made about a man 's deleterious effect on his son 's psyche there is bound to be anxiety and embarrassment attendant on their meeting .
6 Movies had always been made about the past , of course , if not so very frequently about that immediate past whose primary unit of measure is the decade rather than the century ; but it was probably Visconti 's The Damned in 1969 that inaugurated what were to be the definitive parameters of a new filmic style .
7 We attempt to do this in the next chapter , but before embarking on this task we must note some of the criticisms which have been made about the Braverman thesis and its implications .
8 A Housing Executive spokeswoman said no final decision had been made about the case .
9 Those predictions which have been made about the impact of new technology on employment levels have come from two types of analysis .
10 Various suggestions have been made about the meaning of this darkness .
11 The point has been made about the importance of having local businessmen .
12 General remarks have been made about the role of mass media , pluralism , breakdown of traditional morality , etc. , but theorists have not as yet developed their ideas with historical precision .
13 The Parish Council are very disturbed by the decisions that would appear to have been made about the sale and subsequent development of this small area of open land and more especially by the tactics used by the Land and Properties Sub-Committee and the apparent collusion with the Planning Department to keep the Parish Council , and therefore the local people , in the dark about what is going on .
14 Serious allegations have been made about the running of some private homes .
15 The most cheerful remarks seemed to have been made about the health of Michael Heseltine , who was making his first appearance at the cabinet since his heart attack .
16 This is a matter that is worth some brief discussion , since it is closely connected with the fuss that has been made about the application of the term ‘ altruism ’ to animal as to human behaviour .
17 A large amount of the surrounding land has recently been made into a golf course .
18 Beatrix Potter 's classic children 's story ’ The Tailor of Gloucester ’ has been made into a video .
19 One cabin had been made into a pottery , others had council murals daubed over them .
20 The story of the two poets , dramatic in itself , has been made into a play by Robert Southam .
21 Now it has been made into a film by British scriptwriter Harold Pinter and German director Volker Schlondorff .
22 The closing of the railway line was regretted but the station has been made into a club and the old engine shed into a sports hall .
23 At Machrie , Kilchoman , the mill has been made into a house and there was a millstone there which was only about two inches thick ; another thin stone was on the south bank of the Saligo river at NR208639 , which is not far away .
24 On Golden Pond has been made into an Oscar winning film , starring Katherine Hepburn , Henry Fonda and Jane Fonda .
25 Held , dismissing the appeal ( Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle dissenting ) , that although the common law had previously only admitted recovery of money exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment had been made under a mistake of fact or under limited categories of compulsion , which did not apply to the payments by the building society , the nature of a demand for tax or similar impost on the citizen by the state , with the perceived economic and social consequences of non-payment stemming from the inequality of the parties ' respective positions , and the unjust enrichment falling on the state where the citizen paid an unlawful demand to avoid those consequences , warranted a reformulation of the law of restitution so as to recognise a prima facie right of recovery based solely on payment of money pursuant to an ultra vires demand by a public authority ; and that , accordingly , since the building society 's claim fell outside the statutory framework governing repayment of overpaid tax , it was entitled at common law to repayment of the sums from the dates of payments and to interest in respect thereof pursuant to section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 384H , 387D , F–G , 389B , 390F — 391C , E–F , 392E , 396C , 414B–C , F–G , 415E–F , 416A–B , 417B , 418A–C , E–F , 421D–F , G ) .
26 A No Claims Bonus of 7.5% is being introduced for members in the Republic of Ireland where no claims have been made under a policy for more than 12 months .
27 Where the trespass is trivial then the damages will be nominal ; but where the trespass involves some beneficial use of the land , the plaintiff is entitled to a reasonable remuneration for the use of the land , as if the use had been made under an agreement , such as a lease or a contract .
28 When an owner of property against whom an order has been made under the Act comes into this court and complains that there has been some irregularity in the proceedings , and that he is not liable to have his property taken away , it is right , I think , that his case should be entertained sympathetically and that a statute under which he is being deprived of his rights to property should be construed strictly against the local authority and favourably towards the interest of the applicant , in as much as he for the benefit of the community is undoubtedly suffering a substantial loss , which in my view must not be inflicted upon him unless it is quite clear that Parliament has intended that it shall .
29 No arrests had been made under the law , which regulated penalties for records deemed ‘ too erotic ’ by the state 's legislators .
30 Prosecutions might have been made under the law of conspiracy or under 5 Elizabeth for leaving work unfinished , but to trade unionists they were all " the laws against combination " .
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