Example sentences of "were make in [art] " in BNC.

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1 The seats were made in a variety of materials , plaited with subtle variations in pattern : freshwater rushes gathered from the banks of the Rhône , rye straw ( top right ) , and wheat straw wrapped with raffia ( bottom right ) were left plain , or stained red , green , yellow , blue or pale purple .
2 Investments were made in a multi-storey office block in Jos in the hope that its rents would help pay for the newspaper , but the building was still largely empty six months after completion .
3 Spearheads were made in a wide range of identifiable forms emphasising that each iron object was a unique forging .
4 But most of the time colonial appointments were made in a way that reflected friendships and pressures in London .
5 These remarks were made in a different context to this , but I regard them as apposite .
6 These remarks were made in a different context to this , but I regard them as apposite .
7 These remarks were made in a case in which the mortgage , so far as the report reveals , was silent about costs , charges and expenses .
8 These measurements were made in a growth cabinet .
9 Most of those applications were made in a few weeks .
10 On Nov. 10 similar allegations against Biwott were made in a letter published in Nairobi from Roland " Tiny " Rowland , chief executive of Lonrho , the United Kingdom-based multinational corporation .
11 A number of ministerial changes were made in a Cabinet reshuffle announced on Aug. 7 .
12 And they were the originals of these were made in a place called in Germany .
13 Scottish Enterprise said it had carried out an audit at Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd after the allegations were made in a series of unsigned documents passed to the press and the SE chairman , Prof Donald MacKay .
14 Since a faithful classification of land cover is an essential component in the proposed scheme , several attempts were made in an effort to obtain a consistent and suitably detailed product .
15 Mr Wilson 's outspoken views were made in an in-depth interview in Hot Press — Ireland 's top music magazine .
16 More than 1.3 million discretionary payments were made in the year in question .
17 According to the company , the market is expanding fast : three-quarters of its sales were made in the past 18 months .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 A fifth of all the party 's gains were made in the West Midlands and it achieved double the national swing in the region , writes David Graves .
21 Agriculture was brutally collectivized and no concessions were made in the use of the Ukrainian language and culture .
22 Many related compounds were made in the same laboratories and were investigated in more or less detail according to the promise they showed .
23 Fry 's chocolates were made in the old centre of the city but as the business expanded they needed a large space for a modern factory and also easy ways of distributing the goods .
24 There were several types of plan used for villas , and the grandest were made in the form of an open square with the buildings forming four sides of an open courtyard .
25 The ‘ Marathon ’ discs of 1912 ( 48 ) were made in the usual ten-inch and twelve-inch diameters , but with finer grooves .
26 Just one quarter of Britain 's robots were made in the UK ; 37 per cent came from the rest of Europe while 24 per cent and 14 per cent owe their origins to the US and Japan .
27 By the middle of the 18th century walnut was no longer used for fashionable furniture but continued in favour in the provinces where , late in the century , pieces were made in the style of 50 years earlier .
28 But when due allowance has been made for the very various functions of castles , as administrative and social as well as military centres , it remains true that they were formidable military weapons , and that some of the most remarkable technological advances of the twelfth century were made in the improvement of siege engines and of a castle 's defences .
29 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 .
30 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 .
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