Example sentences of "[subord] [noun] [be] make [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where speech is made criminal by direct reference to its contents , the way is opened for those in authority to censor minority or officially deprecated opinions . |
| 2 | If Worcester were to make progress in this competition , the wicket of England captain Graham Gooch had to be claimed — and quickly . |
| 3 | It was mikva night , and the last thing in the world that she felt like doing was making love to her husband — she could have quite cheerfully strangled him ! |
| 4 | If people were making demands on him for what he owed them , he should assemble them and lay before them a fair statement of his past transactions , of his present condition and his future prospects . |
| 5 | While UTV is making inroads with its viewing figures in the South , the absence of cable TV in Northern Ireland , particularly in Belfast , is hampering RTE 's expansion there . |
| 6 | ‘ I want a team of aggressive players but I do n't want violent men in my team ’ , was the advice he gave to Gimbert and Moscato , who made their Five Nations debuts against Wales in Cardiff , while Simon was made captain of the students side . |
| 7 | While James was making preparations for his voyage the English rebels scored their first real success . |
| 8 | We will need to discover who is really being stopped from going ahead with legal action , or whether people are making choices between legal action or re-mortgaging their house , a holiday , a car or otherwise freeing money which is tied up . ’ |
| 9 | Having passed the equivalent of the first MD examination , the universities could hardly turn her away , though places were made conditional on her waiting for her eighteenth birthday before going up . |
| 10 | Indeed , when Franco was made head of government in September 1936 , it was as much because all the other candidates had important flaws as in recognition of his merits . |
| 11 | When Peter was made curate in a northern suburb of Bristol , Anna celebrated the event by becoming pregnant . |