Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] be made [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rynd and the spindle soon came to be made from iron to be more durable , and the handle was developed to become a lever for turning the runner stone by animal power . |
| 2 | My fingers seemed to be made of cotton wool . |
| 3 | It seemed to be made of rubber . |
| 4 | At the end of the term and the completion of the topic , staff agreed that satisfactory progress seemed to be made from year group to year group in terms of the development of writing skills . |
| 5 | Provision needed to be made for dowager widows , and for younger sons and for daughters , and perhaps for other persons . |
| 6 | The sleeveless tunic looked to be made of doeskin , supple as linen , and worked into the left breast was a flame symbol , picked out in scarlet and yellow thread . |
| 7 | This association was confirmed by analysis of early first-century BC Greek coins ( fig. 5.5 ) from the region ; some of these coins proved to be made of brass typical of the cementation process and they thus pre-date Roman use of the alloy . |
| 8 | We have marvellous architectural sculpture , tombstones , votive reliefs and other things which continued to be made in marble ; but most of what the Greeks themselves , and the Romans after them , considered the masterpieces of their sculptors are gone . |
| 9 | Supply flights had to be made at night ; the aircraft had no radar or proper navigation equipment , could not get information even about the weather , and had to find drop zones in thick jungle by the light or smoke of bonfires . |
| 10 | Under these difficult conditions , some firm decisions had to be made on cost savings , both with regard to investment and labour . |
| 11 | Quasi-judicial functions , it was thought , were best committed to politically responsible Ministers rather than to courts because ultimately the required decision had to be made on policy grounds . |
| 12 | On the day when a choice had to be made between ruin and reason , Pétain received promotion |
| 13 | After an appeal to the Bundesgerichtshof , the European Court of Justice affirmed that a fresh examination had to be made under Article 27(2) , and the court in the state where enforcement was sought was not bound by the determination made under Article 15 of the Hague Convention . |
| 14 | A number of safeguards were said to be in force , the first being that all applications had to be made in writing . |