Example sentences of "been make [adv] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Reference has been made already to the debilitating effect of prolonged public criticism upon the morale of teachers and the potential damage it can have for educational standards .
2 Some mention has been made already of the salutary effect which business support can have on motivation in schools .
3 Mention has been made already of difficulties in the area of relationships , and it would seem that this is a widespread problem .
4 Alongside the notice was another one from the cricket club stating that the offer to the rugby club had been made on on April 9 and , as joint owners of the ground , the cricket club had been informed .
5 ‘ Are you trying to tell me , ’ Richmann began dangerously , ‘ that these changes in plan have been made just on the basis of your superstitious intuition that the newest arrivals on the island are somehow dangerous ? ’
6 This is anecdotal evidence to be sure , but given the lack of any measures to enforce the speed limit it was hard to see how any safety gains had been made here at all .
7 There may be a collecting bias against the foot bones , however , because they are small and easily overlooked , and so a comparison has been made here between the proximal and distal limb elements , the former being the femur and humerus , and the latter represented by the tibia and radius ( values for ulna are very similar ) .
8 For all we know she could have been made away with . ’
9 Customs say no decision has been made yet on whether to appeal .
10 Spence 's product was an ammonium alum which gradually displaced the potash alum which had been made principally at Whitby .
11 In Thackeray 's Pendennis ( 1848–50 ) , for example , Lady Clavering , whose London house has been made over to the interior decorators , is put out of countenance by the result .
12 This point has been made strongly about the Home Help Service , arguably the most crucial support for old people in the community , by Goldberg and Connelly ( 1982 ) , and more recently by the Audit Commission ( 1985 ) .
13 Reference has been made elsewhere to the early county histories written in the seventeenth , eighteenth and nineteenth centuries , sometimes by gentlemen in the priesthood .
14 Like remarks might have been made elsewhere with respect to a required event , for example .
15 Documentary programmes : These are usually made by the TV companies themselves , but there have been occasions where the film has been made jointly with an outside organisation .
16 Reference has been made above to unlawful sexual intercourse .
17 Reference has been made above to citation peaks — the period during which the largest number of citations is recorded .
18 The draw 's been made today for the first round of the FA Cup … and here 's
19 He is concerned about the issue and I shall draw the remarks that have been made today to his attention .
20 Reference has been made today to the rights of victims .
21 Hypertension is but one among many diseases , and progress has been made similarly in developing new drugs for regulating or adapting other parts of the body : drugs to strengthen the heart , to promote formation of blood , to help blood to clot or to prevent blood from clotting , to aid respiration , to increase the flow of urine , or selectively to increase or to diminish the amount of some selected component , to prevent conception or to promote fertility , drugs to stimulate the production of hormones or to block their actions , drugs to influence some particular aspect of the metabolism , and so on .
22 I expect that the Minister can reassure him that an environmental impact assessment can not have been made properly for that incinerator yet , because an application does not yet appear to have been made .
23 The high correlation of bursts of rapid eye movements with intense dreaming tended to encourage early investigators in their impression that the eye movements were following the actions of 70–80 per cent of vivid dreams.19 However , when blind matches of EOG records with dream narratives have been made simply on the basis of written evidence and the polygraphic record , matching of reports to records has been no better than chance .
24 It was believed that the treaty had been made simply for private gain , and this view was given substance by Isabella 's appropriation of much of the £20,000 payment from Bruce .
25 Jasper ware has been made continuously by Wedgwood from the 18th century to the present day .
26 Other new materials have been made either by introducing phosphorylcholine derivatives as plasticisers into polymers such as PVC and polyurethane , or by copolymerising phosphorylcholine monomers into the polymer backbone of polyurethanes and polyesters .
27 Detection of a semantic anomaly is highly informative because it indicates that an error may have been made either in understanding the context , or in perceiving the new unit .
28 The assignments in polymer mechanics have been made largely as a result of experimental work with chemical analogues of the polymer under study — for example for polystyrene by the use of substitutions one the position of the ( glass-rubber ) and other transitions is observed , and some , largely qualitative , rules laid down .
29 Ireland 's Highland Clearances had been made not by Man but by Famine .
30 Again she was plied with whisky , but this time in hot water and sweetened with brown sugar ; she was then led to the sitting-room couch that had been made up as a bed for her .
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