Example sentences of "to [be] made about " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | It outlines data on trade in all these substances ; hazard possibilities and accident records ; and quantifies the relative risks , enabling decisions to be made about the safest mode of carriage . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Apart from the anxiety caused by such uncertainty and the distress concerned , difficult decisions might have to be made about how to proceed . |
| 5 | But there is no real decision which has to be made about whether a child should live or die , for nobody has the right to make such a decision . |
| 6 | Decisions will need to be made about the criteria for display . |
| 7 | ( See Types of Income ) Choices have to be made about what counts as income , and then further decisions are required to determine whether to sue gross income or disposable income , income before or after housing costs , and whether the average used is an arithmetic mean or a ‘ median ’ or mid-point in the distribution . |
| 8 | A number of points needs to be made about the Conservative concept of active citizenship . |
| 9 | I 'd lusted after these peaks for some time , but a decision has to be made about how to get at them . |
| 10 | Yet this same student may be quite good at translating from French to English or the other way round and may have a certain knowledge of the history of French literature and the critical points to be made about specified French texts . |
| 11 | It was the moment when a choice had to be made about how to approach the exploitation and inequitable treatment meted out to Black subjects in Britain . |
| 12 | Causal path diagrams have been extended to three variables to show how the factors are hypothesized to interrelate ; these diagrams are useful because they force explicit decisions to be made about the causal order of the variables , and lessen the risk that the analyst will control for the wrong variables . |
| 13 | Even with PAC data some assumptions would need to be made about numbers of persons per household if good population estimates were to be made . |
| 14 | It has now been copied into INGRES , a relational database management system , permitting queries to be made about subsets of the data ; for instance , all males between the ages of 25 and 64 suffering from laryngeal cancer . |
| 15 | This unfortunate episode allows several points to be made about children in church . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | There are three further points to be made about writing objectives . |
| 19 | There is one other point to be made about the Linn before discussing how it sounds . |
| 20 | They are like charts which allow predictions to be made about the likely consequences of taking different courses of action . |
| 21 | The introduction of new technology creates the opportunity for a wide range of choices to be made about how work should be organised . |
| 22 | ‘ We might even fight Tucker first , but until Lennox 's coronation on January 14 , I do n't expect a firm decision to be made about his first defence . ’ |
| 23 | If the answer is ‘ yes , change is possible ’ , then certain choices have to be made about how individuals are going to tackle the problems which face them , and the counsellor will have a role in enabling counsellees to make those decisions . |
| 24 | On the other hand , Risk was seen as being a possible focus for dissent on the Board , as someone who would interfere with hard decisions that might have to be made about Distillers , and who would , therefore , behave in a more executive role than had been envisaged , rather than as a figurehead . |
| 25 | Two points need to be made about these studies , however . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | As we have already seen ( p. 21 ) , this may be quite clear , or it may require decisions to be made about who will be included and who will be omitted . |
| 28 | Two last points need to be made about Othello , the first concerning the hypocrite 's superiority over his dupes . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |