Example sentences of "[adv] be made [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It had been learnt that progress could not be made if a member state objected strenuously to a particular part of a programme .
2 The General Commissioners dismissed the taxpayers ' appeal , accepting the Crown 's arguments that there was one practice and that an election under para 21(2) could not be made where a trade was split into two .
3 Switches can always be made although a charge of £10 plus a 1 per cent bid/offer spread would be payable .
4 It is understood that the ANLT is by no means complete ( no rule-based grammars are ) and therefore no complaint can reasonably be made when a sentence such as ( 3 ) fails to produce a parse .
5 An argument could even be made that a prisoner who emerges from prison with a reasonable sum of money is less likely to recidivate than one who emerges as impecunious as when he or she entered .
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