Example sentences of "[was/were] made know to the [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It is still unclear from the account given in Macmillan 's memoirs what facts were made known to the Queen when the Prime Minister read to her from his hospital bed a memorandum of advice containing the suggestion that she should invite Lord Home to attempt to form an administration .
2 Then , waving aloft a sheaf of papers , he uttered the famous lie that was to catapult him into the limelight for four years : ‘ I have here in my hand a list of 205 names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still working and shaping policy in the State Department . ’
3 One of the most important of these ‘ eruptions ’ occurred in the latter decades of the nineteenth and early decades of the present century when the fabulous wealth of plants in the Chinese hinterland was made known to the West by French missionaries and British and European hunters .
4 The Securitate was also anxious to make sure that any suffering on the part of a non-conformist at home was made known to the dissident 's contacts in the West .
5 As soldiers they wear the uniform given to them and which was made known to the enemy . ’
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