Example sentences of "[was/were] make [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | English language broadcasts remained but were made part of the country 's external radio services . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Thus the church made its past its own : the martyrs were made present in time ; but they also had to become present in space . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They could not have known whether it would be prejudicial to the administration of justice if the facts were made public . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Fisons ' share price dropped after the FDA allegations were made public . |
| 13 | Earlier this week , when other parts of the tape were made public , Camilla 's husband Brigadier Andrew Parker Bowles described the allegations as ‘ fiction ’ . |
| 14 | Early this year , intimate pictures of Sarah with Wyatt and Wyatt with the little princesses , Beatrice and Eugenie , were made public . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | After the flight of King James II on 11 December 1688 the legal fiction was adopted that this day was the last of his reign ( thus 4 James II is 6 February 1688 to 11 December 1688 ) , and there followed an interregnum until William III and Mary II were made king and queen for their joint and several lives on 13 February 1689 . |
| 23 | In 1989 , at least 300 million international journeys were made outbound from the major developed countries alone . |
| 24 | There was a right decision and a wrong decision , but it was for the king to make it , and if the wrong one were made Anselm would leave the kingdom . |
| 25 | One would think they were made office … from his whole personality emanated an air of sovereignty |
| 26 | Sihanouk was also reported as saying that if he were made chair of the Cambodia Supreme National Council ( SNC ) he would allow Hun Sen , the SOC Prime Minister , to become vice-chair . |
| 27 | Rules were made uniform , a standardized system of discipline adopted , and the staff co-ordinated into a single service with a regular system of promotion . |
| 28 | Profitt , Michael Cook , 18 , Adrian Sinclair , 19 , and Lee Scrivens , 19 , all from Birmingham , admitted theft charges ; another six City supporters were also remanded in custody or on bail , and 23 were fined a total of £8,600 for admitting charges arising from a weekend in the Lancashire resort which a Football Association inquiry may punish by banning City supporters from remaining away games ; all their away matches were made all-ticket for an indefinite period after trouble last season at Crystal Palace . |
| 29 | The Globe and the Lord Chamberlain 's Men were doing very well , and the older actors in the company were making money , and buying houses and land . |
| 30 | I 've not , there 's a conviction that er if management were making money , then why could n't they get a reasonable increase in pay . |