Example sentences of "made on [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Its being so means that more than usual demands must be made on available resources , whether human or material .
2 an order for costs would be made on normal principles ;
3 Deposits at basic banks can be made on various conditions and at correspondingly different interest rates .
4 Forensic tests were made on various items removed from the area .
5 Employers desperately seeking a cheaper product in a crisis of over-production began to introduce " cut-ups " made on wide frames in the stead of " fully fashioned " stockings .
6 During these early talks , progress appeared to have been made on Unionist demands ( i ) that the British government should seriously consider the possibility of an alternative to the Anglo-Irish Agrement ; ( ii ) that the Anglo-Irish secretariat based near Belfast should be suspended before devolution talks began ; and ( iii ) that the normal summer gap between meetings of the Anglo-Irish Intergovernmental Conference [ see below ] could be defined in advance and used as an opportunity to open formal negotiations .
7 Progress was made on certain aspects of the problem ( for example , the distribution of general practitioners and underprovided specialities like psychiatry and anaesthesia ) , but by 1970 Tudor Hart could still proclaim the truth of the " inverse care law " : " The availability of good medical care tends to vary inversely with the need for it in the population served " ( Hart 1971 : 405 – 12 ) .
8 She said there could be heavy demands made on Samaritan volunteers , especially because they are critically understaffed at the moment .
9 These regulations permit calls to be made on non-private investors generally .
10 These two arms shipments to Iran resulted in the much publicised release of David Jacobsen to Terry Waite on 2 November 1986 which at the time was said to have been made on humanitarian grounds following Waite 's appeal to the Iranians .
11 A great deal of progress has been made on equal rights .
12 For Jo Stephens , apart from the statistical and descriptive returns required by Circular 7/88 ( DES , 1988b ) which will be made on standard forms , and similar information ( eg on staffing and use of resources ) required by the LEA , the records and reports of institutions should be ‘ generated within them ’ and ‘ belong to them ’ rather than the LEA or DES .
13 Active flight is used by many animals to escape predators , and a particularly elegant study has been made on noctuid moths by Roeder .
14 We shall need to extend these to more general statements in what follows , but the above definitions are in fact what are used when actual measurements are made on real materials .
15 The decision , made on economic grounds , puts in doubt plans by the Hydro-Quebec company to proceed with the construction work .
16 In the multiracial , multicultural society which the United Kingdom has become , there are adjustments to be made on all sides .
17 Both Labov and Bernstein , quite rightly , question the appropriateness of the language demands that are made on such children in the schools they attend .
18 ( 4 ) A payment may be made on such terms that it has been agreed , expressly or impliedly , by the recipient that , if it shall prove not to have been due , it will be repaid by him .
19 Do you think this is a good idea and do you think I could get a reduction on my Road Tax Fund Licence as 50 per cent of my journeys are made on two wheels ?
20 In practice , the choice was made on subjective grounds , reflecting the institutional preferences of military planners .
21 Thus judgements are made on subjective grounds concerning the performance of the individual and this will be open to interpretation .
22 Without denigrating the work of the Coordinating Team , it is the evaluators ' belief that decisions will be made on better grounds than they have been if something like this proposal becomes a reality .
23 Instead of contrition , instead of apology , constant and unmitigated attacks are made on Labour councils that are struggling , in the most difficult areas of the country , to provide services .
24 I think the credibility of the planning system is enhanced by the fact that decisions can be made on individual circumstances .
25 He said computer networks would not be affected and copies of information should be made on floppy discs .
26 Studies were made on eight cases of FAP and eight control cases , seven with SCRC and one with multiple colonic ademonas .
27 The decision has been made on financial conditions and not to meet the needs of the team .
28 Mr Reenan and his wife Phyllis connected it to a £1,000 airwaves scanner which they use to earwig calls made on mobile phones .
29 A decision can then be made on genuine grounds of comparative suitability , not just who sticks in the interviewer 's mind most .
30 Promotions and appointments within the RUC were made on political attitudes and submissiveness to the regimé .
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