Example sentences of "[vb past] been made [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Its provision could no longer be ignored by government and left wholly to private charity , particularly as legislation had made public funds available for the education of hearing children from 1832 , and their education had been made compulsory by law in 1876 .
2 This blanket denial might have been more persuasive if the report , or the files on which it was based , had been made available for inspection by some suitably qualified independent investigator , but the subcommittee fared no better in this respect than had counsel for Pan Am .
3 The expenditure plans revealed in January 1992 showed that increased resources had been made available for health , housing , education , and law and order .
4 Reasonably enough , there were those on the list who were angry because they had been made liable to investigation by the tax authorities .
5 After the idea of a dead-letter drop had been made clear to Postelnicu with some difficulty , the new minister took the intelligence officer to his bathroom and asked if the lavatory 's water-cistern could be used as a letter drop .
6 Domestically , it was necessary to prevent ‘ sinister interests ’ from dominating the political process — the world that had been made safe for democracy had to be kept safe by democracy .
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