Example sentences of "be made [to-vb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the basis of these small but important findings , a case could be made to close down the whole of the provision in this sector . |
| 2 | With the conventional weighing system it took some time for the information about packet weights to get to the point where decisions could be made to adjust either the oven or the wrapping machine . |
| 3 | Lorentz wondered whether ‘ patrons might be made to understand why the movies are so banal and childish … if every motion picture theatre prefaced its films with the caption ‘ This picture has been censored by a minor politician or by his assistants ’ ’ . |
| 4 | One of the reasons for failure is the need to measure more background variables , chosen to meet the needs of decision-makers ; critics of NAEP think that more effort should be made to find out the needs of such decision-makers . |
| 5 | He claimed that space-time had an inbuilt tendency to expand , and this could be made to balance exactly the attraction of all the matter in the universe , so that a static universe would result . |