Example sentences of "[adv] [be] made the [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She realised , wearily , almost too tired to care , that she had just been made the butt of a joke . |
| 2 | He believed also that the monastic community at Canterbury with a primatial archbishop at its head was the source of order throughout the whole huge area of the archbishop 's primatial authority ; he thought too that this was part of an unchanging order of things , which should not be made the subject of political bargaining either with the pope or the king . |
| 3 | Accurate reports of certain public occasions are " privileged " — which is to say that any defamatory statements arising from them can not be made the subject of a successful libel action . |
| 4 | Where a surgeon has been brought in ‘ at the last minute ’ to prepare a Medical Report then his opinion and Report can always be made the subject of valid criticism in the event of being compared with the Report and opinion of a surgeon who has consistently treated and/or prepared Reports on a claimant over a lengthy period of time . |
| 5 | Van Gogh 's life has so often been made the subject of literary treatment that the art historian is strongly inclined to leave the biographical matter severely alone and concentrate exclusively on the artistic aspect . |
| 6 | It seems fairly clear , for example , that in domestic animals macro mutations of this kind have quite often been made the basis of new breeds of dogs or of cattle and things of that kind . |
| 7 | At least she would n't be made the doxy of this fearful black and white slug . |
| 8 | Where a person is actually being made the subject of an unlawful attack by another , he is entitled to act in self-defence , and use force to do so . |