Example sentences of "been [verb] make [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Roman hair had been plaited to make hair for these gods .
2 He has sympathy for the small scale dealers : ‘ They 've been brought up in an entrepreneurial country under Thatcher where they 've been taught to make money .
3 Come the next time that sector is needed — assuming it has n't been discarded to make way for more recent data — it 's pulled straight out of RAM rather than through the comparatively slow disk system .
4 Minkes , together with southern bottlenose whales Hyperoodan planifrons ( Figure 5.16 ) and killer whales have been reported making use of late winter polynyas several hundred kilometres within the pack ice edge ( Hempel and Stonehouse , 1987 ) .
5 The previous occupant had been a Swiss merchant who had been evicted to make way for the English milord and his lady , and Jane had a suspicion that the Swiss , like all foreigners , harboured strange and filthy diseases .
6 If agent provocateurs had been endeavouring to make trouble between Official and Provisional IRA , it would have been the ideal weapon to use .
7 Hotel operators will already be familiar with the typewriter or personal computer keyboard ; the latter and the screen-based console are the heart of the system , which has been designed to make operation as simple as possible .
8 The program , which will cost £59.95 , has been designed to make accounts easy for the non-specialist user .
9 Rut , when all had been done to make provision more level and selection more scientific , a stubborn error of 10 per cent would remain .
10 It 's been done to make room for the Motorola Inc 88110 Mbus input/output interface and increased cache .
11 However , where a decision has been made to make redundancies and employees have been informed , the contingency crystallises into an actual liability .
12 This has now been demolished to make way for new houses .
13 Many of the larger houses have been demolished to make way for more modern houses and bungalows .
14 An early fourth-century building had been demolished to make way for the wall , thus providing an approximate date for its construction .
15 A whole street of houses had been demolished to make way for the edifice looming above her , Isabel vaguely recalled hearing .
16 Mr Deputy Speaker that 's exactly what the authorities are asked to make sure about and of course they must have sensible plans so that there are always beds and facilities for those who need them , but in a way it 's a success of care in the community that that more elderly people are being looked after in their own homes and so we 've arrested the very rapid growth in permanent residential places which was occurring before the policy was introduced er , as we now see , despite some gloomy forewarning , local authorities have in general managed well in the first year of their responsibilities , they 've examined thousands of cases and many people have been helped to make decisions about their own futures .
17 It may well have been used to make bows for local archers who went off to fight in the battle of Agincourt .
18 Dollars have been used to make purchases outside of America , independent of any aggregate impact on the US money supply .
19 Similarly , when the government discovers that a large part of the loans raised from abroad has been used to make dinar loans to Yugoslav enterprises , and that the dinar service payments on the latter loans increasingly fall short of the amounts required to meet the interest and principal on these foreign debts , it instructs the National Bank to cover the difference by issuing new money .
20 A further source of bank losses has been the acceptance of foreign exchange deposits from domestic residents , which have also been used to make dinar loans .
21 On July 7 the small Hural had been disbanded to make way for the Great Hural to act as the country 's new single-chamber legislative body .
22 Any girls born that year would , by tradition , have been fated to make men unhappy , and would thus have been hard to marry off .
23 In those circumstances it is unnecessary for me to discuss the rival contentions of fact or to reach any conclusion upon whether , if Winchester had been enabled to make representations before 30 October , those representations would have made any difference .
24 Computers have been known to make mistakes .
25 You 've got an opportunity now because he 's just been appointed to make contact with him , you do n't need any other excuse to make contact with him
26 The school teachers ' review body has been asked to make recommendations on the pay and conditions of school teachers in 1992-93 .
27 I have been asked to make enquiries about property insurance for Nether Wyresdale Parish Council .
28 This was the first time that the health service had ever been asked to make staff economies .
29 He had been asked to make savings of £440,000 over the next three years but says , without more money , police vacancies will be frozen and jobs will be lost .
30 The Daily Mirror has been campaigning to make trolleys safer for years after reporting accidents , such as :
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