Example sentences of "[was/were] make [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ltd. he and his brother were made directors , but there was apparently some friction between them and in 1882 he resigned and set up in practice on his own as a consultant . |
| 2 | For years , Timex enjoyed good relations with its workers , who in 1990 were made shareholders . |
| 3 | Millions of soldiers were made prisoners of war , and many other Germans were interned under the Allied policy of ‘ denazification ’ whilst their activities under the Third Reich were investigated . |
| 4 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 5 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 6 | has been looking after her younger brothers and sisters since they were made wards of court when their parents were sent back to India . |
| 7 | English language broadcasts remained but were made part of the country 's external radio services . |
| 8 | A fifth , mid-century , scribe wrote the calendar , the verses and the Chronicle entries down to 490 , and a sixth the annals probably to the end of 1048 ; those to 1044 seem to have been written at one time , while changes in the appearance of the script suggest that subsequent entries were made year by year . |
| 9 | Ironically , Robert Naish was already unwell and sadly died in February 1985 but not before he and his wife were made Life Members and he had opened the new extension ( a larger lounge and a new men 's changing block ) on August 27th , the previous year . |
| 10 | Sir Woodrow Wyatt , chairman of the Tote , and Field Marshall Sir Edwin Bramall , the former Chief of the Defence Staff , were made life peers in the New Year 's honours list , while the principal actors in the television series Yes Minister , Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne , were made CBEs . |
| 11 | In September he was appointed royal hydrographer and he and his wife and children were made denizens of England under royal warrant . |
| 12 | Sir Woodrow Wyatt , chairman of the Tote , and Field Marshall Sir Edwin Bramall , the former Chief of the Defence Staff , were made life peers in the New Year 's honours list , while the principal actors in the television series Yes Minister , Paul Eddington and Nigel Hawthorne , were made CBEs . |
| 13 | Media freedom would be enhanced by legislation of the reforms proposed by the Faulks Committee , and even the statutory right of reply advocated by many media critics would be liberating if the exercise of that right were made contingent upon abandoning claims for libel damages . |
| 14 | Having passed the equivalent of the first MD examination , the universities could hardly turn her away , though places were made conditional on her waiting for her eighteenth birthday before going up . |
| 15 | An order requiring the contravener to repay the purchase price of the shares would not be capable of restoring the parties to their respective former positions unless the obligation to repay were made conditional on the tender of the share certificates . |
| 16 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 17 | If such a procedure were made law , vets could well afford to offer the service at a minimal cost , if not free , at the same time as the first vaccination . |
| 18 | Both he and Robert of Courson , another Englishman , were made cardinals by Innocent . |
| 19 | They could not have known whether it would be prejudicial to the administration of justice if the facts were made public . |
| 20 | Dolphin kills were suspected from the time the practice of fishing on dolphins began in 1959 , but a secretive tuna industry for many years resisted all attempts to have observers placed on their boats , no doubt fearful of the outrage that would result if the truth were made public . |
| 21 | Fisons ' share price dropped after the FDA allegations were made public . |
| 22 | Earlier this week , when other parts of the tape were made public , Camilla 's husband Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles described the allegations as ‘ fiction ’ . |
| 23 | Early this year , intimate pictures of Sarah with Wyatt and Wyatt with the little princesses , Beatrice and Eugenie , were made public . |
| 24 | Two reports — one by the European Community 's committee of central-bank governors and the other by its monetary committee ( composed of finance-ministry and central-bank officials ) — were made public on May 23rd . |
| 25 | The next day the contents were made public of an unusually critical letter to Shamir from the leading pro-Israel lobby in the USA ( the American Israel Public Affairs Committee — AIPAC ) . |
| 26 | A report in the International Herald Tribune at the end of August suggested that the Khmers Rouges were keeping away from the UN disarmament process because their forces had grown so small that they would lose influence if the numbers were made public . |
| 27 | Talks , however , remained informal and secret , with Eisenhower , the army Chief of Staff , again emphasizing the danger from anti-British feeling in the United States if anything were made public . |
| 28 | But local people this week vowed to step up their campaign after details of the area of land the developers are seeking to have re-zoned were made public . |
| 29 | TRAINER John Upson today launched a stinging attack on racing 's hierarchy , after the findings of an investigation into the Grand National fiasco were made public . |
| 30 | As a favour to the Presbyterians and other religious leaders who had helped bring about the restoration , some were made king 's chaplains , including Dr. Calamy , Dr. Manton , Richard Baxter and nine others . |