Example sentences of "have been made [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Few attempts have been made to set these earliest of monuments into any sort of context , but stimulating ideas of their contemporary landscapes have been proposed both by Colin Renfrew , who has argued that the tombs belonged to groups and therefore represent ‘ territories ’ , very much as the medieval church related to parish communities , and Graeme Barker and Derrick Webley , who have argued for the inhabitants of causewayed enclosures exploiting a variety of different landscapes , much as Bronze Age and later Iron Age communities did . |
| 2 | Attempts have been made to map these two modes of processing on to the left and right hemispheres respectively . |
| 3 | Hardware Many hundreds of simple , cheap modifications have been made to enable maintenance and operations teams to ‘ Work Smarter not Harder . ’ |
| 4 | Attempts have been made to link the main periods of construction with known historical events , such as the bid of Clodius Albinus for the purple , first proposed by Dr Philip Corder in 1955 , developed by Professor Frere and now accepted , with reservations , by Mr Wacher following earlier doubts . |
| 5 | Numerous attempts have been made to stifle theories which some power-holders have found to be unpalatable but which have , over time , become more generally acceptable . |
| 6 | The TUC 's response to such criticisms has been characteristically heavy-handed : McIlroy was barred from teaching on TUC courses , and it is alleged that attempts have been made to stifle debate . |
| 7 | Although slight changes have been made to covenant administration , the principle of committing yourself to giving , for four or more years , remains the same . |
| 8 | As to the second point , there are numerous cases in which attempts have been made to induce the courts to review or ignore decisions of the visitor acting within his jurisdiction , all of which have been unsuccessful . |
| 9 | No case bearing a strong analogy to the present was cited ; but the importance of enforcing promises which have been made to induce parties to marry has been often recognised , and the cases of Montefiori v. Montefiori ( ( 1762 ) 1 W.Bl. 363 ) and Bold v. Hutchinson ( ( 1855 ) 20 Beavan 250 ) are examples . |
| 10 | Other attempts have been made to deal with the types of complements found after causative verbs from a more or less " semantic " point of view ( cf. |
| 11 | At the same time , criticisms which underlay le français fondamental have been made to illustrate the fact that such vocabulary selection , far from being all that linguists can contribute to the preparation of teaching materials , is still in a stage of development . |
| 12 | Since the 1970s efforts have been made to organize residential care into small , autonomous units accommodating no more than ten youngsters . |
| 13 | Many attempts have been made to compile a genealogical tree showing the relationships of these animals to one another and to man . |
| 14 | In recent months the management unit in Brussels ( DG1 ) has been restructured , and moves have been made to devolve responsibility to a new Tacis unit in the commission 's delegation in Moscow . |
| 15 | Great efforts have been made to restore the salmon runs on rivers in the American north-east , only for 70-90 per cent of the fish to be caught when they reach the rich feeding grounds off the west coast of Greenland . |
| 16 | In addition , some improvements have been made to weather station linkages . |
| 17 | Attempts have been made to demonstrate an evolution from interpretation based on the letter ( or verba ) to that based on the spirit ( or intention or voluntas ) . |
| 18 | It is important that , if you take this course of action , you have definite evidence that an undisputed debt does exist and that all reasonable efforts have been made to recover it . |
| 19 | However , after the event several attempts have been made to estimate the direct cost of participating in the EC . |
| 20 | Various attempts have been made to categorize types of volcanic activity on the basis of the nature of the material erupted , and the violence of eruptive events . |
| 21 | Many attempts have been made to tame the Biro , or at least bring it to heel . |
| 22 | And threats have been made to firebomb the studios of the new station . |
| 23 | The district judge may extend the period of four months for a further period or periods each not exceeding four months , if reasonable efforts have been made to serve the summons and provided that the application has been made before the preceding 12 months expire , or if later , in the court 's discretion ( Ord 7 , r 20(2) ) . |
| 24 | Arrangements have been made to plant a tree in Regent 's Park , in the vicinity of Molly 's tree close by St. John 's Hall , on Tuesday 25th March at 11.00 a.m . |
| 25 | In practice , few attempts have been made to do so . |
| 26 | Many attempts have been made to classify British cattle breeds on the basis of ancestry and these categories are often based on obvious physical characteristics such as horns and coat colour . |
| 27 | Again , attempts have been made to classify purrs into different types , but they all carry the same basic message of friendliness . |
| 28 | Attempts have been made to classify the various ‘ schools ’ of economics and law ; but convenient though these are , it must be borne in mind that the effective use of any interdisciplinary approach varies significantly according to how , where , and why it is being applied . |
| 29 | At the level of the individual , efforts have been made to promote practices in residential and , to a lesser extent , in community care which will enhance old people 's rights to greater control over their own lives . |
| 30 | ‘ Over recent years , hugely successful efforts have been made to promote Edinburgh and the Lothians in Europe . |