Example sentences of "they [was/were] made [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The die study has become one of the most important tools used by the numismatist because it provides a physical link between two separate objects and thereby provides evidence that they were made at the same place and time . |
| 2 | The same method of the die study is also useful in establishing mints , as die links between coins indicate that they were made at the same mint . |
| 3 | Subalterns posted to the Indian Army were expected to kill a tiger in order to prove that they were made of the right stuff . |
| 4 | Because they were made of the right kind of iron ? |
| 5 | Housed at present in the Mirbach Palace , they were made in the seventeenth century at the Mortlake factory , near London , by Flemish workers , under the patronage of Charles I. The idea of a national establishment for weaving tapestries came to King James from Henry IV of France and in 1619 he sent to Flanders for the best weavers . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , the models of chemistry remained rather imperfect , and substantial advances in understanding them were made in the third quarter of the nineteenth century . |
| 7 | Thirteen of them were made by the electrical process in 1930–31 , but three were acoustically produced ten years earlier . |