The phrase "a recommendation was" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a suggestion or advice that was given in the past.
Example: "A recommendation was made to improve the efficiency of the project."
Alternatives: "a suggestion was" or "an advice was".
A recommendation was defined as a course of action that was recommended by an expert or a committee as advisable, and included both cognitive (i.e. to think about something) and behavioural (i.e. to do something) recommendations.
Based on the prioritizations of customer orders, a recommendation was made to the case company.
A recommendation was made to avoid strenuous push pull tasks at neutral reach envelopes.
With the aim of achieving the availability target, a recommendation was made to consider an alternative design.
"Those who applied were interviewed by an assessment panel and a recommendation was put to the candidates committee.
On August 22nd 1947 a recommendation was made to free Shoriki, and he walked out after 21 months inside.
A recommendation was therefore made to the responsible authorities to consider decommissioning of the facility given that the mine operations ceased some years back.
A recommendation was made by the ACT-HBV Asia-Pacific Sthering Committee regarding the withdrawal of lamivudine in chronic hepatitis B patients after achieving effective maintained virological suppression.
This gender difference disappeared only for the highest-performing (top 10%) recommendations, where gender no longer predicted the likelihood that a recommendation was clicked on.
In applying to graduate school for an advanced degree in art history and archaeology, a recommendation was needed and I went to Professor Kaplan.
Discrepancies between current practices and CDC guideline recommendations occurred in situations either in which practices had changed in response to recently published data or in which evidence supporting a recommendation was poor.
