Example sentences of "[verb] be make [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But most certainly the road to the latter , with its decadence and exploitation , has been made a great deal smoother , shorter and more popular by the compromise and self-interest of the clerics and assorted fellow travellers of the so-called ‘ new morality ’ school . |
| 2 | Trade sanctions have been threatened and copyright has been made a high-profile issue in international negotiations . |
| 3 | Since this case it has been made a criminal offence not to wear a seat belt in the front seat of a car . |
| 4 | The base has been made a free port and special economic zone . |
| 5 | ‘ No , the wall has been made a permanent fixture , I 'm afraid . ’ |
| 6 | Foreman , 43 , has been made the overwhelming favourite to earn his 26th win since he began his unlikely comeback five years ago . |
| 7 | Jonathan Phiri has been made the Acting Director of the Africa Literature Centre in Kitwe , Zambia . |
| 8 | Gwendolen Truda Brock ( Sister Truda C. R. ) who spent 1927–8 at Somerville as a research student from South Africa working for her Zoology D. Phil under Professor Goodrich has been made an Honorary Doctor of Laws of Rhodes University . |
| 9 | Ms Phillips , like the Scottish National Party 's candidate Gerry Fisher , has been making a big play for the student vote , which could prove critical in this , Scotland 's second most marginal constituency . |
| 10 | AN archaeological site 's management officer has been making a clean sweep of Clwyd 's ancient monuments . |
| 11 | Despite its poverty and its international isolation , Vietnam has been making a unique attempt to restore its tropical forest , one-fifth of which was lost in 20 years of war and its own mistakes . |
| 12 | The House will be grateful to the right hon. Gentleman , because he has been making a clear statement and drawing a clear distinction between the two sides of the House . |
| 13 | Sometimes the same bank that has been making the public loan to the government also stores the overseas private deposits from private nationals . |
| 14 | Other honours included being made a foreign member of the Norwegian and Swedish academies and an honorary member of the Boston Society of Natural History and the Société Zoologique de France . |
| 15 | The best way to understand what is happening is to make a manual slip pattern on the machine , before we move on to electronic patterning . |
| 16 | The secret we used was to make the correct article immediately follow after one with four legs or corners . |
| 17 | I went past this woman 's door , her name was Emily , and it was like I was passing a huge vulva , so big it has a desk inside , and I decided that what I should do is make an actual photocopy of my dick , in fact two copies , one before coming , one after , and leave these , along with an asterisk memo , on her desk . ’ |
| 18 | This is unfair criticism — Gooch produces a mass of indicative , albeit necessarily speculative , evidence in favour of his hypothesis — but nevertheless it is true that our knowledge of the past is and has to be based on the artefacts surviving from that past : lacking the artefacts , all we can do is make an educated deduction . |
| 19 | The best we can do is to make a close study of code switching and hope that it will provide an overall framework for understanding how the two perceived varieties , Creole and English , interact in conversation . |
| 20 | The only thing she 'd done is make a small scratch with a rose thorn and was unfortunate enough to get a piece of contaminated soil |
| 21 | So what Silver have done is to make the electronic box a self-contained unit , or ‘ module ’ , hence the description of the total range as ‘ modular ’ . |
| 22 | The most that Aurangzeb could expect was to make the local rulers obedient to his authority , or else to replace them with deputies of his own who would be reasonably faithful vassals . |
| 23 | She counted to ten as she had been taught when about to deliver a big speech , but when she tried to force some words of outrage from between her teeth her tongue clove to the roof of her mouth and the most she could do was make a small cry of protest deep in her throat . |
| 24 | What the treaty did not do was to make the two kingdoms of France and England one ; they were to remain separate , each with its own legal and administrative identity . |
| 25 | What the MacMahon Act did do was to make the British programme slower and more expensive ; and from the wider standpoint of the Western Alliance , it led to unnecessary duplication of effort . |
| 26 | When you have sent off your pristine cassette , your witty biography and your complimentary tickets , the next thing you need to do is make a follow-up call : ‘ Oh hello . |
| 27 | All the constant changing did was to make the next scene you were doing contradict the one you did yesterday , so all that had to be changed . |
| 28 | Eurocraft are making the Rapid Discovery , a hybrid craft intended to bridge the gap between canoes and rafts . |
| 29 | But the decision made itself , as if it had been made a long time before . |
| 30 | Yet it is hardly likely that even if links had been made a ramshackle group of peasant armies using antiquated military techniques could have stood out for long against the Red Army . |